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.
Robert Dessaix refused China visa Prominant Australian novelist, essayist and journalist Robert Dessaix should be in China... more
Bliss, the libretto When Peter Carey published his first novel, Bliss, back in 1981, he was seen as a bright new talent an... more
Times Literary Supplement editor, Peter Stothard The Marx Brothers, Peter Sellers and Charlie Chaplin are performers who l... more
Jim Crace's All That Follows In Jim Crace's new novel, All that Follows, we are in suburban England in the near future - 2... more
UK Libel laws and implications for writers Libel laws -- the laws that decide your liability if you're sued for what you'v... more
Jill Roe wins Adelaide prize for Miles Franklin biography Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin, born in 1879 in the Australia... more
Mitchell turns 100 One of the big, yet-to-be-resolved issues of the online age is how we preserve history. What happens w... more
Reading on Vocation: Architects This is the first of our monthly series 'Reading on Vocation', in conjunction with The Whe... more
Barry Lopez's words for landscapes Barry Lopez writes essays and fiction, and his work on the way we live in the places we... more
Patrick Gale Patrick Gale doesn't only write novels, he's written for television, he's published a biography of his friend... more
