The Book Show
The Book Show is ABC Radio National's home for the discussion of everything relating to the written word. This daily program will explore the many worlds in which we find readers and writers, publishers and booksellers, playwrights and lyricists, bloggers and journalists, book illustrators and type designers -- all working with words and the medium of language.
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10 Episodes of this Podcast:
Book Show 2009-11-20
Published: 2009-11-19 09:00:00Antonia Fraser on writing historical biography It's been 40 years since the publication of Antonia Fraser's award winning biography Mary Queen of Scots.
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Book Show 2009-11-19
Published: 2009-11-18 09:00:00Writing about music Igor Stravinsky claimed that music is beyond verbal description. But is it? Nick Hornby's Juliet Naked (review) Music is a strong theme in Nick Hornby's writing. He's best known for his book High Fidelity, which is about a man with a vinyl record obsession. It was made into a movie starring John Cusack.
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Book Show 2009-11-18
Published: 2009-11-17 09:00:00John Banville: The Infinities The Infinities is a marvellous, funny, gently erudite and wise book and it's set in a crumbling house on a midsummer's day where a family is attending the deathbed of the paterfamilias, one Adam Godley.
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Book Show 2009-11-17
Published: 2009-11-16 09:00:00A New Literary History of America Greil Marcus says that the purpose of A New Literary History of America was to set American speech in motion.
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Book Show 2009-11-16
Published: 2009-11-15 09:00:00Off the Shelf with Philip Hensher It's always interesting to hear what people like to read, but even more so when that person writes and reads for a living. Napoleon's romantic novella Napoleon Bonaparte is considered one of the greatest military leaders in history, and his relationship with Josephine is one of the most enduring love stories. In Search of Hobart: Peter Timms On sighting Tasmania in 1642, Abel Tasman wrote dismissively, 'Too far for the spices, and too close to the rim of earth to be inhabited by anything but freaks and monsters.'.
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Book Show 2009-11-13
Published: 2009-11-12 09:00:00Hermione Lee on writing biography Biography is one of the most popular, best-selling and widely-read of all the literary genres. We love to read about other people's lives and about historical events.
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Book Show 2009-11-12
Published: 2009-11-11 09:00:00Maggie Gee and Tobias Hill on travel writing In 2003, the Cheltenham Literature Festival sent two writers, Tobias Hill and Maggie Gee, off to Mexico and Uganda as part of a cross-continent writers' exchange program. The demise of the newspaper book review In February when The Washington Post published its last edition of Book World, one of America's last major stand-alone newspaper book sections died.
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Book Show 2009-11-11
Published: 2009-11-10 09:00:00Alex Miller's Lovesong In Alex Miller's Lovesong we begin by hearing the voice of Ken, an ageing writer, living in Carlton, an inner Melbourne suburb. Audrey Niffenegger's Her Fearful Symmetry (review) Karl Marx, George Eliot and the parents of Charles Dickens are all buried in Highgate Cemetery in London.
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Book Show 2009-11-10
Published: 2009-11-09 09:00:00Motown's 50th anniversary In 1959, a 29-year-old car assembly worker in Detroit, Berry Gordy Jr, quit his job to start a record label. Fifty years later, Motown Records and its stable of largely black artists are synonymous with the musical, social and cultural fabric of America. The financial secrets of F. Scott Fitzgerald In October 1929, the Wall Street Crash in America marked the beginning of a decade of poverty and unemployment known as the Great Depression. Ravens by George Dawes Green (review) George Dawes Green is the creator of The Moth, which are spoken-word events in the United States that feature storytelling without notes. You can also listen to The Moth online.
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Book Show 2009-11-09
Published: 2009-11-08 09:00:00Off The Shelf with Joe Hockey If you think Australia's shadow Treasurer spends all his waking hours reading books about money, think again. Germany's literary changes after the fall of the Berlin wall Imagine being in a city where suddenly the unknown and the taboo are there for you to explore, uninhibited. For many East Germans, the end of the era of a walled city 20 years ago today would have seemed like an early Christmas present. Rick Gekoski: Outside of a Dog If you had to select the 25 or so books that have made you who you are today, which ones would you single out? Ulysses? Catcher in the Rye? Jane Eyre? Winnie the Pooh?
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