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Friday, March 1, 2013 | Categories: Episode Update |
Our winter season features the best work from both new and familiar voices. You'll find a wide range of stories, ideas, and perspectives from our remarkable guests.
Sunday, March 3, 2013 | Categories: Episodes |
A conversation with the American writer George Saunders. When Saunders won a MacArthur "genius grant" - half a million dollars, no strings - they talked about how he brings "a sense of humour, pathos and literary style all his own" to contemporary American fiction. He's an original.
Monday, February 25, 2013 | Categories: Episodes |
Sunday, February 24, 2013 | Categories: Episodes |
The conclusion of our 3-part series Making Waves: Voices from the Jaipur Festival with Tarun Tejpal, one of India's most respected journalists and novelists. His groundbreaking investigative newsmagazine Tehelka has earned a global reputation for its aggressive public interest journalism. His chilling latest novel is called The Valley of Masks.
Read Eleanor's blog about her trip to Jaipur.
And check out our reading list for the series.
Sunday, February 17, 2013 | Categories: Episodes |
The second in our 3-part series, Making Waves: Voices from the Jaipur Festival, a conversation with one of Pakistan's leading Urdu poets, Fahmida Riaz. From early in her career, her bold poetic expression has captured attention for its feminist voice and powerful use of language.
Read Eleanor's blog about her trip to Jaipur.
And check out our reading list for the series.
Sunday, February 10, 2013 | Categories: Episodes |
The first in our 3-part series, Making Waves: Voices from the Jaipur Festival. To start, performance poet, journalist, and former drug addict, Jeet Thayil. His debut novel, Narcopolis, has just won the prestigious DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2013. Set in the opium dens of Bombay, the novel was also shortlisted for the 2012 Man Booker Prize.
Read Eleanor's blog about her visit to Jaipur.
And check out our reading list for the series.
Sunday, February 10, 2013 | Categories: Reading Lists |
Making Waves: Voices from the Jaipur Festival
Sunday, February 3, 2013 | Categories: Episodes |
Karl Ove Knausgaard's six volume memoir My Struggle has won every Norwegian prize, has been hailed as "a masterpiece", and was called "the greatest account of our generation" by Norway's Culture Minister. Knausgaard writes (and speaks) with raw honesty.
Sunday, January 27, 2013 | Categories: Episodes |
In early February, Lanzmann was awarded the Honorary Golden Bear for lifetime achievement at the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival.
Sunday, January 20, 2013 | Categories: Episodes |
This week, from Switzerland, the highly-acclaimed novelist, playwright and journalist, Peter Stamm. He's described as a master of powerful, enlightening stories. His latest book to be translated into English is called We're Flying.
Sunday, January 13, 2013 | Categories: Episodes |
On December 16th we aired (on the podcast and streaming audio versions only) our 1995 interview with Marina Warner about Fairy Tales. Now, in this brand new interview, Marina Warner talks about Scheherazade and her book Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian Nights.
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