A Good Read

By BBC Radio 4Arts Books

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A Good Read episodes

April 24, 2011 Edward St Aubyn
This week Mariella Frostrup is in extended conversation with the novelist Edward St Aubyn. This programme does contain some disturbing content.
28 min
April 17, 2011 Max Hastings on journalism novels & Steve Hely
Two eras of journalism collide in Annalena McAfee's debut novel, 'The Spoiler'. Sir Max Hastings discusses how journalists have been portrayed in fiction and Emmy Award winning comedy writer Steve Hely talks about his first book 'How I Became a Famous Novelist'
28 min
April 10, 2011 Jennifer Egan, conflict literature & Reading Clinic
Mariella Frostrup talks to Orange prize nominated novelist Jennifer Egan about her book, A Visit From The Goon Squad. Writers Hisham Matar and Mirza Waheed examine how the experience of living in a region with ongoing political conflict translates into fiction. Children's author Anthony Horowitz and his son offer literary advice to teenage boys.
28 min
March 25, 2011 Monica Ali, libraries & Woolf
Mariella Frostrup talks to author of Brick Lane, Monica Ali, about her new novel inspired by the life of Princess Diana. Seventy years after her death, novelist and critic James Runcie assesses the legacy of Virginia Woolf. And librarians, listeners and writers defend public libraries.
28 min
March 18, 2011 Will Self, dead lovers and comic novels
Mariella talks to writer Will Self about cuts to UK libraries. Novelists Joseph O'Connor and Maggie O'Farrell discuss why dead lovers haunt the pages of their books. And have young novelists forgotten how to be funny? Comedian Robin Ince offers guidance.
28 min
March 11, 2011 Justin Cartwright, Juliet Stevenson
Mariella Frostrup talks to Justin Cartwright about his new book Other People's Money. Acclaimed actress Juliet Stevenson describes her unabridged reading of George Eliot's Middlemarch. Plus American writer Jessica Francis Kane discusses why she made a very British tragedy the subject of a fictional book.
29 min
March 04, 2011 Alan Bennett reads Untold Stories
A bonus download: Alan Bennett reads an extract from his diaries in Untold Stories.
14 min
March 04, 2011 Agent Zigzag
A bonus download: an extract from Agent Zigzag, Ben Macintyre's biography of a WW2 double agent, read by Damien Lewis and abridged by Doreen Estall.
15 min
March 03, 2011 A Fine Balance
A bonus download: an extract from Rohinton Mistry's novel A Fine Balance, read by Lyndham Gregory.
15 min
March 03, 2011 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
A bonus download: the opening of Mark Haddon's novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, read by James Meunier and abridged by Sarah LeFanu.
15 min