The Book Show - full program
The Book Show - full program
The Book Show is ABC Radio National's home for the discussion of everything relating to the written word. This daily program will explore the many worlds in which we find readers and writers, publishers and booksellers, playwrights and lyricists, bloggers and journalists, book illustrators and type designers -- all working with words and the medium of language.
Jostein Gaarder: The Castle in the Pyrenees The Norwegian writer Jostein Gaarder is best known for his book Sophie's Wor... more
Utopia and climate change - Kim Stanley Robinson George Orwell's 1984 and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World are familiar dys... more
Cake: A Global History Readers of the classics already know the answer to 'What's cake got to do with books and literature... more
Will Self walking to LA English writer Will Self creates satirical and fantastical novels. His bad boy reputation, at leas... more
Reading on Vocation: scientists Henry Walter Bates was an English naturalist who left school at the age of 12. Despite thi... more
Val McDermid: Crime and rewards Celebrated Scottish crime writer, Val McDermid, in conversation with Ramona Koval at the M... more
Faulkner audio online In 1949, the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to American writer William Faulkner. Delhi's i... more
Caviar: A Global History The history of caviar production is a story of global politics with Russia, Iran and even America... more
Headlines: Is the novel dead, again? Stephen King and Toni Morrison have both been featured on the cover of Time magazine.... more
Louise Doughty As well as novels, Louise Doughty writes radio plays and journalism, broadcasts regularly for BBC Radio 4, ... more
