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Something of the Night podcast
Posted On: January 31, 2012Posted In: Audio, Interviews
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
Who can say what the night might bring? Mummy tucking you up with Teddy and a cup of Ovaltine? Fireworks and frivolity? A party? Music? Dancing? Ian Merchant might have the answers…
Read More...The November Vintage Books Podcast
Posted On: December 1, 2011Posted In: Audio
Publisher: Vintage Books
The Vintage Podcast is a monthly book programme hosted by Alex Clark with interviews, discussions and features on subjects ranging from literary fiction to graphic novels, cookery to crime fiction, history and travel to sport, biography and poetry…
Read More...P. D. James shares her appreciation for Jane Austen
Posted On: November 30, 2011Posted In: Audio, Interviews
Publisher: Faber
In this extended 30-minute interview the author discusses the challenge of taking, Pride and Prejudice, a beloved work of fiction, in a wholly unexpected direction.
Read More...P.D. James in conversation
Posted On: November 24, 2011Posted In: Audio, Interviews, Video
Publisher: Faber
P. D. James introduces and discusses Death Comes to Pemberley
Read More...More Pyg…
Posted On: November 23, 2011Posted In: Audio, Extracts
Publisher: Canongate
More from the star of the world’s first ‘pigaresque’ novel, a beguiling and charming memoir of Toby, an exceptionally gifted pig who escapes the butcher’s knife, gains an education and becomes the most famous animal of his time…
Read More...Introducing Pyg, or, Toby the Pig…
Posted On: November 21, 2011Posted In: Audio, Extracts
Publisher: Canongate
This, the world’s first ‘pigaresque’ novel, is the beguiling and charming memoir of Toby, an exceptionally gifted pig who escapes the butcher’s knife, gains an education and becomes the most famous animal of his time…
Read More...The Last Werewolf’s Wolfcast!
Posted On: October 31, 2011Posted In: Audio, Interviews
Publisher: Canongate
Seeing as today’s the scariest day, or evening, or night of the year, we have a selection of tasty morsels for all those lycanthropes out there. And you are out there. We know you exist… there surely can’t be only one left?
Read More...BBC Archive Voices Competition [closed]
Posted On: October 21, 2011Posted In: Audio, Competitions
Publisher: The Bookhugger Crew
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Four Bookhugger readers will each win two full downloads from the amazing selection of BBC Archive Voices interviews that we’ve featured this month, in association with Audiogo.
Read More...BBC Archive Voices: Roald Dahl and Alfred Hitchcock
Posted On: October 19, 2011Posted In: Audio, Interviews
Publisher: The Bookhugger Crew
The final of our exceprts from BBC Archive Voices features two master storytellers, also well-known for their eccentricities. On Friday we’ll be running an exclusive competition to win downloads of these amazing interviews.
Read More...BBC Archive Voices: Margaret Thatcher and Brian Clough
Posted On: October 17, 2011Posted In: Audio, Interviews
Publisher: The Bookhugger Crew
The third entry in our BBC Archives series features memorable interviews with two equally opinionated management figureheads, from completely different backgrounds!
Read More...BBC Archive Voices: Shirley Bassey and Paul McCartney
Posted On: October 14, 2011Posted In: Audio, Interviews
Publisher: The Bookhugger Crew
BBC Archive Voices is a fascinating collection of archive interviews with icons past and present. Today we have extracts from two musical greats. Watch out for an exclusive competition soon on Bookhugger!
Read More...BBC Archive Voices: Noel Coward and Bette Davis
Posted On: October 12, 2011Posted In: Audio, Interviews
Publisher: The Bookhugger Crew
BBC Archive Voices is a fascinating collection of archive interviews with icons past and present. Kicking off a series of interview extracts across our network, we have snippets from two legends of screen and stage.
Read More...My Father’s Fortune
Posted On: October 7, 2011Posted In: Audio, Interviews
Publisher: Faber
‘It took him quite a long time to accept that I had some other qualities, abilities, to write and so forth, which in his eyes never really made up for lack of sporting ability, but eventually we found some sort of common ground.’
Read More...Discussing Edward Thomas and Gothic Fiction
Posted On: September 9, 2011Posted In: Audio, Video
Publisher: Faber
George Miller discusses gothic fiction with Richard T. Kelly, author of the spine-chilling The Possessions of Doctor Forrest, and talks to Matthew Hollis about his new book, Now All Roads Lead to France, about the final years in the life of war poet Edward Thomas.
Read More...A Different Climate
Posted On: September 5, 2011Posted In: Articles, Audio
Publisher: Faber
Marek Kohn, author of Turned Out Nice: How the British Isles will Change as the World Heats Up, asks if we should be bothered about our descendants in the future, do we even care about the future, and if we do, how do we save nature, and us?
Read More...Listen to the Vintage Books Podcast
Posted On: September 1, 2011Posted In: Audio
Publisher: Vintage Books
A L Kennedy, John Burnside, Richard Beard and a Booker Prize debate…
Read More...Listen to the eleventh Vintage Books Podcast
Posted On: August 16, 2011Posted In: Audio
Publisher: Vintage Books
Featuring Julie Myerson, Tessa Hadley, Adam O’Riordan, Moni Mohsin, Anna Del Conte and the family of Mervyn Peake.
Read More...Listen to the tenth Vintage Books Podcast
Posted On: August 4, 2011Posted In: Audio
Publisher: Vintage Books
Featuring Alex Clark in conversation with Julie Myerson, Katherine Frank and Sian Rees, Alice Albinia, Evie Wyld, the Vintage Classics day and a Mr B’s Emporium special.
Read More...Listen to the ninth Vintage Books Podcast
Posted On: July 11, 2011Posted In: Audio
Publisher: Vintage Books
Featuring: Anne Enright, Stella Tillyard, Zarghuna Kargar, Kevin Barry, Shehan Karunatilaka and Oliver Harris…
Read More...Chasing the Sun
Posted On: June 13, 2011Posted In: Audio, Interviews
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
The Sun is so powerful, so much bigger than us, that it is a terrifying subject. Yet though we depend on it, we take it for granted. Author Richard Cohen discusses Chasing the Sun – a cultural and scientific history of our relationship with the star that gives us life.
Read More...Andrew Martin on The Somme Stations
Posted On: May 23, 2011Posted In: Audio, Interviews
Publisher: Faber
Andrew Martin is the author of the Jim Stringer series, detective novels set during Edwardian times that began with The Necropolis Railway in 2002. The seventh and latest instalment is The Somme Stations…
Read More...Listen to The Soundtrack of a Northern Life podcast
Posted On: May 9, 2011Posted In: Audio, Interviews
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
In his eagerly awaited new book, Reelin’ in the Years DJ Mark Radcliffe takes a record from each year of his life, using the song as a starting point from which to reach out and pull together a wonderfully entertaining catalogue of memories and asides about British culture.
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