Blog posts in total 25
Friday 3 May 2013, 15:08
Gillian Clarke, the national poet of Wales, talks about her collection Ice and her love of the Welsh language.
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Wednesday 3 April 2013, 15:38
Turkey's leading female novelist Elif Shafak discusses her novel The Forty Rules of Love on BBC Radio 4's Bookclub.
Wednesday 27 February 2013, 14:34
Jim Naughtie talks to the author Andrew Miller about his book Pure - winner of the 2011 Costa Prize.
Wednesday 2 January 2013, 13:58
Ben Macintyre discusses Agent Zigzag - his bestselling book on the true story of a professional criminal named Eddie Chapman, a successful British double agent who infiltrated the Nazi intelligence services during World War II.
Friday 30 November 2012, 14:55
In this month’s Bookclub we visit a Sikh family in Wolverhampton. For the author, the journey was a departure – a break with his past and his culture – and ended as a reconciliation.
Friday 2 November 2012, 10:40
Editor's note: Radio 4's Bookclub is on at 4pm on Sunday 4 November and is repeated on Thursday 8 November at 3.30pm. You can also listen online after broadcast or download the programme. Here, Jim Naughtie talks about the themes that are discussed in David Almond's novel, Skellig. - PMcD
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Thursday 4 October 2012, 17:06
Editor's note: Radio 4's Bookclub is on at 4pm this Sunday 7 October and is repeated on Thursday 11 October at 3.30pm. You can also listen online after broadcast or download the podcast. Here, Jim Naughtie talks about the themes that are discussed in Bookclub this week with Marilynne Robinson discussing...
Friday 31 August 2012, 10:00
Editor's note: Radio 4's Bookclub is on at 4pm this Sunday 2 September and is repeated on Thursday 6 September at 3.30pm. You can also listen online after broadcast or download the podcast. Here, Jim Naughtie talks about the themes that are discussed in Bookclub this week about The Island by Victoria...
Monday 13 August 2012, 18:25
Editor's note: Jim Naughtie presented a special edition of the Today programme from Edinburgh on Saturday 11th August. He wrote this blog about the magic of the festival last week before travelling to Edinburgh - CM.
Where else should Today be in August but Edinburgh? The festival city...
Friday 3 August 2012, 17:00
Editor's note: Radio 4's Bookclub is on at 4pm this Sunday 5th August and is repeated on Thursday 9th August at 3.30pm. You can also listen online after broadcast or download the podcast - AI
The point about The English Patient is that the patient isn't English. He is a Hungarian count, but his...
Sunday 1 July 2012, 17:00
Editor's note: Radio 4's Bookclub is on at 4pm this Sunday 1st July and is repeated on Thursday 5th July at 3.30pm. You can also listen online after broadcast or download the podcast - CM
I confess that until I read Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont for this month's programme, I hadn't opened a book...
Friday 1 June 2012, 17:21
We really can't get enough of the Tudors, it seems.
It's hard not to believe that at some stage readers will feel that they would like a break… but there is no sign of it. Hilary Mantel's Bring Up the Bodies whizzed up the best-seller list the moment it left the warehouses three weeks ago, and...
Read more about Bookclub: Philippa Gregory and The Other Boleyn Girl
Sunday 6 May 2012, 16:30
Ed's note: Radio 4's Bookclub is on at 4pm this Sunday 6 May and is repeated on Thursday 10 May at 3.30pm. You can also listen online after broadcast or download the podcast - CM
I hadn't read Ross Raisin until we chose God's Own Country for this month's Bookclub...
Friday 30 March 2012, 12:23
Ed's note: Radio 4's Bookclub is on at 4pm this Sunday 1st April and is repeated on Thursday 5th April at 3.30pm. You can also listen online after broadcast or download the podcast - CM
Bookclub has reached something of a milestone. After this coming Sunday's programme on April 1, with Anne Enright...
Monday 5 March 2012, 09:17
My head is buzzing with names. Since we started the search for sixty New Elizabethans I've been bombarded, by email and in conversation, with suggestions for the people who've made most difference to this country in the last six decades. I'm glad to say that they are as weird and wonderful mix as we...
Sunday 4 March 2012, 15:30
Ed's note: Radio 4's Bookclub is on at 4pm this Sunday 4 March and is repeated on Thursday 8 March at 3.30pm. You can also listen online after broadcast or download the podcast - CM
Should we speak about The Line of Beauty as a gay novel? It is one...
Wednesday 15 February 2012, 09:20
How better to paint a portrait of our age than to find the people who have shaped its character?
When Radio 4 listeners get stuck into this, they are going to have a ball. So will I. I'm excited at the prospect of writing sixty profiles of the people who left...
Tuesday 7 February 2012, 12:01
Ed's note: The subject of this month's Bookclub is Maus: A Survivor's Tale by Art Spiegelman. It's a biography of the author's father, Vladek Spiegelman, a Polish Jew and Holocaust survivor. It's also the only comic to have won a Pulitzer Prize. As always you can download the programme as part of the...
Read more about The Bookclub newsletter: Art Spiegelman on Maus
Tuesday 3 January 2012, 12:37
Ed's note: In this month's Bookclub, recorded at the Cavern in Liverpool, Hunter Davies talks to Jim Naughtie and readers about his biography of The Beatles, first published in 1968. On the blog Jim reflects on his own failure to see the Beatles and Hunter Davies' recollections of them. You can listen...
Friday 2 December 2011, 23:59
Ed's note: Radio 4's Bookclub is on at 4pm this Sunday 4 December and is repeated on Thursday 8 December 2011 at 3.30pm. You can also listen online after broadcast or download the podcast - PM
I'm in danger of slipping into cliché with this newsletter...
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