Book Show 2010-03-05
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.
Times Literary Supplement editor, Peter Stothard
The Marx Brothers, Peter Sellers and Charlie Chaplin are performers who liked to clown about.
The imperfections of journalists with Tom Rachman
The stereotype of the ruthless journalist is that they'll step over their dying mother to get a good story.
Off the Shelf with Alexander McCall Smith
Being an amateur bassoonist, an expert on medical ethics and a libretto writer -- these are some of Alexander McCall Smith's extra-curricular activitie... 




