TV & Radio Programmes
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Archive on 4From Midpoint to Endpoint - Talking With John Updike, 04 Apr 09Mark Lawson traces the career of John Updike from 1969, when he came to international recognition, to a final interview recorded months before Updike's death in January 2009.
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Loose Ends04/04/2009, 04 Apr 09Clive Anderson is joined by Dr David Starkey and Graham Linehan, with music from Doves.
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Excess Baggage04/04/2009, 04 Apr 09Sandi Toksvig explores the back streets of old Paris, and uncovers an obscure corner of British military history involving Belize, HMS Ark Royal and Buccaneer fighter bombers.
Listen "Excess Baggage, 04/04/2009" now - The Strand The Strand - Friday 3rd April 2009, 03 Apr 09
- Book at Bedtime Episode 5, 03 Apr 09
- The Verb Frank Cottrell Boyce and Toby Litt, 03 Apr 09
- Front Row 03/04/2009, 03 Apr 09
Coming up
- Book of the Week: Sisters of Sinai BBC Radio 4, 10 Apr 09 24:30
- Book of the Week: Sisters of Sinai BBC Radio 4, 10 Apr 09 09:45
- Book of the Week: Sisters of Sinai BBC Radio 4, 09 Apr 09 24:30
- Book of the Week: Sisters of Sinai BBC Radio 4, 09 Apr 09 09:45
From BBC News
A survey shows the books that people are most likely to have lied about reading
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Obama scoops British book prize03 Apr 09US President Barack Obama fights off competition from Paul O'Grady and Dawn French to take the biography prize at the British Book Awards.
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Author brings Harare to London02 Apr 09
The challenge of starting a new life in Britain is the subject of a darkly comic and fast-paced new novel, Harare North, by award-winning Zimbabwean writer Brian Chikwava.
- Six vie for foreign fiction prize 01 Apr 09
- Why the obsession with happy endings? 01 Apr 09
- Literary prize judges plant trees 31 Mar 09
- Put your questions to Wilbur Smith 31 Mar 09
News Audio and Video
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Obama wins British book award
04 Apr 09US President Barack Obama has won best biography at the British Book Awards, for Dreams From My Father.
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Leading ladies meet at the opera
02 Apr 09Gordon Brown's wife Sarah has been meeting the wives and partners of politicians attending the G20 summit at an event at Covent Garden's Royal Opera House.
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Literary responses to economic crisis
31 Mar 09Vince Cable explains his motivation for writing The Storm and reads from it, while Yaron Brook, President of the Ayn Rand institute, reads from Atlas Shrugged and talks about its significance today.
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Economic crisis in literature
31 Mar 09Kirsty Wark and the panel discuss two books that give very different views of economic crisis, Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, and Vince Cable's The Storm.
Watch "Economic crisis in literature" now - Bringing Harare to London 31 Mar 09Watch "Bringing Harare to London" now
- The history of the telescope 31 Mar 09Listento "The history of the telescope" now
Editor's Choice
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BBC Four - Listen to WritersAudio interviews and biographical information on selected authors
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Radio 4 - BBC National Short Story AwardFind out more about the BBC award that celebrates the best of the contemporary British short story
- Radio 4 - Open Book
- Radio 4 - Bookclub
- Radio 4 - Book at Bedtime
- Schools - Student Life: Book Club
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