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Sep 29, 2013 | 52:24Writers and Company Rupert Thomson Interview AudioWriters and Company Rupert Thomson Interview Sep 29, 2013 | 52:24English novelist Rupert Thomson is one of those writers who, for some reason, is not as well known as he should be. So, we're doing our bit to remedy the situation. Eleanor speaks with him about his memoir, and about his new novel, "Secrecy".
Sep 8, 2013 | 52:21Writers and Company Richard Sennett Interview AudioWriters and Company Richard Sennett Interview Sep 8, 2013 | 52:21Richard Sennett is a social analyst and writer, with his work falling under the heading 'culture studies'. But this isn't dry stuff - his work is "an elegant mix of interview, anecdote and wide, deep book-research."
Sep 22, 2013 | 52:25Writers and Company Aminatta Forna Interview AudioWriters and Company Aminatta Forna Interview Sep 22, 2013 | 52:25Aminatta Forna has first-hand knowledge of civil war. Her father was hanged in 1975 by the regime in Sierra Leone, on false charges of treason. Forna writes about civil war in her latest book - this time about Yugoslavia.
Sep 15, 2013 | 51:58Writers and Company Roddy Doyle Interview AudioWriters and Company Roddy Doyle Interview Sep 15, 2013 | 51:58Irish writer Roddy Doyle clearly loves to talk - and his characters do too, in their own lively, expletive-ridden way. Doyle's new novel "The Guts" brings back Jimmy Rabbitte from the "Barrytown Trilogy". There's life in the old boy yet.
Sep 1, 2013 | 53:18Writers and Company Hilary Mantel Encore AudioWriters and Company Hilary Mantel Encore Sep 1, 2013 | 53:18Eleanor Wachtel speaks with two-time Man Booker prize winner, Hilary Mantel. Her trilogy about the court of Henry VIII and the life of Thomas Cromwell is the story she says she was destined to write.
Aug 25, 2013 | 51:53Writers and Company Toni Morrison Encore AudioWriters and Company Toni Morrison Encore Aug 25, 2013 | 51:53Eleanor Wachtel speaks with the Nobel Prize-winning novelist, Toni Morrison, about her latest, called "Home".
Sep 1, 2013 | 52:35Writers and Company Seamus Heaney Interview AudioWriters and Company Seamus Heaney Interview Sep 1, 2013 | 52:35As a tribute to Ireland's Seamus Heaney, who died on August 30th, we aired our conversation from 2010 with the Nobel prize-winning poet on Sunday September 1st.
Aug 28, 2013 | 52:38Writers and Company Robertson Davies Interview AudioWriters and Company Robertson Davies Interview Aug 28, 2013 | 52:38Robertson Davies, the Canadian novelist, critic, playwright and journalist, would have been 100 years old today (born 28 August 1913). Eleanor spoke with him in September of 1991. Here is that interview.
Sep 1, 2013 | 51:35Writers and Company Nick Hornby Encore AudioWriters and Company Nick Hornby Encore Sep 1, 2013 | 51:35During the summer, the weekly podcast and streaming audio has featured some of the best shows from our archives. This week, from 2006, the popular English novelist and essayist, Nick Hornby.
Aug 25, 2013 | 52:53Writers and Company Ruth Reichl Encore AudioWriters and Company Ruth Reichl Encore Aug 25, 2013 | 52:53During the summer, the weekly podcast and streaming audio will feature some of the best shows from our archives. This week, from 2006, the candid queen of food writing, Ruth Reichl.
May 26, 2013 | 1:06:42Writers and Company John le Carre Interview AudioWriters and Company John le Carre Interview May 26, 2013 | 1:06:42This week, a brand new interview with John le Carré. We last spoke with him in 2010, and he was so articulate and charming that we were delighted to have a chance to speak with him again. This file contains audio not heard on the broadcast version.
Jul 28, 2013 | 52:24Writers and Company Jeanette Winterson Encore AudioWriters and Company Jeanette Winterson Encore Jul 28, 2013 | 52:24English writer Jeanette Winterson's adoptive mother said to her, "Why Be Happy When You Could be Normal?" That's the title of her memoir, and - both in the book, and in conversation - Winterson is remarkably funny and brutally honest.
Nov 18, 2010 | 54:01Writers and Company May 28, 2008 AudioWriters and Company May 28, 2008 Nov 18, 2010 | 54:01Nuala O'Faolain: By popular demand, we are making this program available to our listeners; in remembrance of Nuala O’Faolain, the wonderfully funny and moving Irish memoirist and novelist, best known for her utterly candid book, "Are You Somebody". She died on May 9, 2008 of lung cancer. She was 68 years old.
Aug 18, 2013 | 52:14Writers and Company Edward St. Aubyn Encore AudioWriters and Company Edward St. Aubyn Encore Aug 18, 2013 | 52:14English writer Edward St Aubyn has written a series of novels about Patrick Melrose, a young man who - like himself - was abused by his father starting when he was five. Now, St Aubyn has produced a 5th Patrick Melrose novel, called At Last.
Aug 21, 2013 | 52:29Writers and Company Elmore Leonard Interview AudioWriters and Company Elmore Leonard Interview Aug 21, 2013 | 52:29The great American crime novelist Elmore Leonard has died at the age of 87. Eleanor Wachtel spoke with him in December of 1991 - here is that interview. (Also, in his first appearance on our show, Michael Ondaatje talks about his love of film.)
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