Open Book Clips

1. "The joke I used to say to myself was that I was trying to do for the actor what Melville did for the whaler"

   Duration: 19:18

2. "Few Australians still cling to the belief that climate change isn’t real. Yet in realist fiction, it seldom registers..."

   Duration: 09:40

3. "Charles Dickens makes language feel physical, like you can touch it"

   Duration: 16:41

4. An introduction to ... A Christmas Carol

   Duration: 05:44

5. An introduction to ... Pride and Prejudice

   Duration: 06:07

6. An introduction to ... Kidnapped

   Duration: 04:56

7. An introduction to ... Jane Eyre

   Duration: 05:31

8. BBC Introductions - Radio 4's syllabus guide to.... Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

   Duration: 05:18

9. For Whom The Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway - A Close Reading

   Duration: 05:24

10. Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin - A Close Reading

    Duration: 06:00

11. Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar - A Close Reading

    Duration: 05:04

12. Candice Carty-Williams on her debut novel, Queenie

    Duration: 07:15

13. Following in the footsteps of John Steinbeck

    Duration: 05:49

14. John Steinbeck and the surprising search for the Holy Grail

    Duration: 07:41

15. "I can afford to lose a few readers, and there are some readers I'd like to lose"

    Duration: 02:53

16. Meet the authors giving actors a run for their money

    Duration: 07:12

17. Emotional Choreography

    Duration: 05:19

18. Julian Barnes on his latest novel, The Only Story and matters of love

    Duration: 27:51

19. Nicola Sturgeon on de-stressing through books

    Duration: 16:38

20. Crowdfunding: publishing phenomenon of 2017

    Duration: 07:01

21. Two Scottish writers on their epic journeys across the Americas

    Duration: 11:39

22. Patrick Ness on Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

    Duration: 04:47

23. Abir Mukherjee and AA Dhand at the 2017 Bradford Literary Festival

    Duration: 06:13

24. Val McDermid on Orlando

    Duration: 06:28