Booksplus - Full Program Podcast
- Autor: Vários
- Narrador: Vários
- Editora: Podcast
- Duração: 208:32:43
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Sinopse
BooksPlus is the one-stop destination for bibliophiles, a digest of the week’s best interviews about books and writing across RN.
Episódios
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The Book Club: Rebecca and Rebecca
04/02/2022 Duração: 54minReading Daphne du Maurier's 1938 novel, Rebecca, and Graeme Macrae Burnet's Case Study (which includes a character in the mid 1960s who takes on a Rebecca persona in direct response to du Maurier's novel) - with guests literary lecturer Susannah Fullerton and crime writer Chris Hammer
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Reading Hanya Yanagihara, Gary Shteyngart and Nikki May
28/01/2022 Duração: 54minReading Hanya Yanigahara's To Paradise, Gary Shteyngart's Our Country Friends and Nikki May's Wahala with novelist and critic Jessie Tu and poet and performer Geoff Forrester (whose alter ego, Tug Dumbly, also offers up a poem)
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Pip Williams and The Dictionary of Lost Words
28/01/2022 Duração: 54minA special edition of The Bookshelf, with writer Pip Williams speaking to Kate about her career, research, year in Italy, and interest in the history of words and their visibility, leading to the novel The Dictionary of Lost Words (a conversation from the 2021 Brisbane Writers Festival, online).
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Summer Reads: Hannah Kent, Caleb Azumah Nelson, Sunjeev Sahota and Aravind Adiga
21/01/2022 Duração: 54minKate and Cassie read Hannah Kent's Devotion; RN's Daniel Browning reads Caleb Azumah Nelson's Open Water; novelist Rashida Murphy reads Sunjeev Sahota's China Room; and novelist Aravind Adiga on Australian fiction
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The Bookshelf that Made Me: Siri Hustvedt & Jennifer Mills
20/01/2022 Duração: 34minReading, writers, family, art and mentors in Siri Hustvedt's essay collection, Mothers, Fathers and Others; and dissipating ghosts, cities and stories in Jennifer Mills' The Airways
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Summer Reads: Patricia Lockwood, Ann Patchett, Simon Winchester, Suyi Davies Okungbowa and Jay Kristoff
14/01/2022 Duração: 54minKate and Cassie read Patricia Lockwood's No One is Talking About This; Eugen Bacon on Suyi Davies Okungbowa's Son of the Storm; a story from Ann Patchett's These Precious Days; Simon Winchester discussing Anthony Trollope in remote China; and Jay Kristoff on the books that shaped his latest, Empire of the Vampire
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The Bookshelf that Made Me: Tilly Lawless & Jon McGregor
13/01/2022 Duração: 28minTilly Lawless on her debut novel Nothing but My Body, and her reading inspiration; and Jon McGregor on aphasia and Antarctica, in his Lean Fall Stand
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Summer Reads: James Ellroy, Jhumpa Lahiri, Guillermo Martinez and Charlotte McConaghy
07/01/2022 Duração: 54minKate and Cassie on James Ellroy's Widespread Panic; Debra Oswald on Jhumpa Lahiri's Whereabouts; Robert Gott on Guillermo Martinez' The Oxford Brotherhood and Charlotte McConaghy with the Bookshelf that Made Me (and her book, Once There Were Wolves)
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The Bookshelf that Made Me: R W R Mcdonald & Jacqueline Bublitz
06/01/2022 Duração: 28minCrime writers R W R McDonald (The Nancys, Nancy Business) and Jacqueline Bublitz (Before you Knew My Name) on the books that they are writing against, in concert with, inspired by, and so on (it's a complicated business).
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Summer Reading: a wild party, Beowulf, and Gillian Mears
31/12/2021 Duração: 54minBiographer Bernadette Brennan on why we should read and know Australian writer Gillian Mears; music writer Mark Mordue on Taylor Jenkins Reid’s Malibu Rising, and mediaevalist Louise D'Arcens on a new translation of Beowulf
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The Bookshelf that Made Me: Colm Tóibín and Emily Gale
30/12/2021 Duração: 28minA fictional biography of German Nobel Prize winning writer Thomas Manne (and his extraordinary family) by Irish writer Colm Tóibín, with The Magician; and a roadtrip across America in Emily Gale's Wild Abandon. But what do these writers read?
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Summer Reading: Jane Austen, Joan Silber, Kevin Barry and Elizabeth Strout
24/12/2021 Duração: 54minA new interview with Elizabeth Strout about Oh, William! and the Bookshelf that Made Her; and favourite review discussions from the year about Jane Austen, Joan Silber and Kevin Barry with readers Ruth Wilson and Michael McGirr
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The Bookshelf That Made Me: Sarah Winman and Nick Earls
23/12/2021 Duração: 28minWriters and their bookshelves. Sarah Winman's Still Life moves between England and Florence, while Nick Earls' Empires travels from Brisbane to Alaska, London, Vienna and Hong Kong. But what are the books that shaped these novels and these writers?
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The Bookshelf That Made Me: Ken Follett, Rose Tremain, Amie Kaufman & Jaclyn Moriarty
17/12/2021 Duração: 01h32sWhat are the books that have shaped these writers and (in particular) their latest works? Ken Follett, Rose Tremaine, Amie Kaufman & Jaclyn Moriarty
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Best Reads 2021 Part 2: General Adult Fiction
10/12/2021 Duração: 54minReading recommendations from writer and critic Beejay Silcox, crime writer Christian White and memoirist Lech Blaine. What are the books they have especially admired this year?
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Claudia Karvan and the Books that Made Us: Pod Extra
08/12/2021 Duração: 20minActor Claudia Karvan speaks to Kate Evans about her reading life and the Books That Made Us
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The Book Club: John Hughes' The Dogs + Kate Grenville's The Secret River
03/12/2021 Duração: 54minReading John Hughes' The Dogs and Kate Grenville's The Secret River with historian David Hunt and writer and philosopher Michael McGirr
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Classic Australian Novels - Alexis Wright's Carpentaria
30/11/2021 Duração: 21minIntroducing Classic Australian Novels. A collection of interviews from the ABC Archives with Australian authors about their most significant work. In 2007 Alexis Wright won the Miles Franklin Award for her epic novel Carpentaria, set in and around the mythical town of Desperance in Queensland’s Gulf Country.
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Classic Australian Novels - Peter Carey's True History of the Kelly Gang
30/11/2021 Duração: 37minIntroducing Classic Australian Novels. A collection of interviews from the ABC Archives with Australian authors about their most significant work. In True History of the Kelly Gang Peter Carey took a mythic Australian story and turned it into a Booker Prize winning novel.
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Classic Australian Novels - Richard Flanagan's Gould's Book of Fish
30/11/2021 Duração: 13minIntroducing Classic Australian Novels. A collection of interviews from the ABC Archives with Australian authors about their most significant work. With his first two novels Richard Flanagan had already garnered a reputation as great author. But then in 2001 the Tasmanian writer consolidated his literary reputation, and his gift for great titles, with Gould's Book of Fish.