literature
A Moveable Feast
These two reports were broadcast on BBC radio in July 2009. The first was on Radio 4’s literature programme, Open Book. The second was on the World Service arts magazine, The Strand. They are about a new edition of Ernest Hemingway’s memoir about the time he spent in Paris as a young man, A Moveable [...]
War (Not Peace)
This report was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4’s Open Book, in October 2007.
When two competing versions of War & Peace were released within months of each other, a rather undignified spat broke out between the publishers.
In conversation with Mariella Frostrup, I described the key differences between the two books and attempted to explain [...]
Kurt Vonnegut’s last interview
Kurt Vonnegut is dwelling on the apocalypse. For the third time over lunch America’s funniest and most pessimistic novelist is explaining why he will welcome the end of the world.
