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Arts & Culture Podcasts

Exceptional crime fiction

Location:

United Kingdom

Description:

Exceptional crime fiction

Language:

English


Episodes

#7 The BeSpoke Book Group.

5/16/2018
A special live podcast for Brighton City Reads 2018, discussing Rose Tremain's Sacred Country, a book which opens with six-year-old Mary's realisation that wants to be a boy.

Duration:00:33:47

#6 The town with a hundred book groups

12/21/2017
Harpenden is a commuter town. It’s also a town with an extraordinary number of book groups. What’s the connection? I travel there to meet the dynamic Katherine Sunderland and her book group to find out, and bump into writers Susi Holliday, Chloe Mayer, Sue Moorcroft and Jules Wake.

Duration:00:25:00

#5 Sex and self-determination in suburbia

12/6/2017
The Asian Book Club has been meeting once a month in Central London since 2008. By arriving the day they're discussing Hanif Kureishi's The Buddha of Suburbia I think I luck out. I listen into a great discussion of the book, and also into how the group views itself in the context of the modern city.

Duration:00:27:59

#3 A benign Apocalypse in Central London

11/2/2017
When Leila Abu el Hawa started Post-Apocalyptic Book Group she never expected it to be so successful. What started as a jokey alternative to all the historical reading groups, or crime book clubs, turned out to have an extraordinary life of its own, as I discovered when I visited them at a pub in London’s […]

Duration:00:21:41

#2: James Baldwin and Charles Bukowski in the Regency Tavern

10/18/2017
Brighton's Queer Books Group is a group that welcomes straight and gay people - what's important is the books.

Duration:00:24:15

#1: George Orwell and Salman Rushdie in a pub in Soho

10/18/2017
The North London Book Group is a phenomenon. One group, formed ten years ago has become a massive umbrella for around twenty fiction groups, a 19th century novel group, a sci-fi group, a Shakespeare group and a graphic novel group.

Duration:00:23:37

The Book Group: a new podcast starting in October 2017

9/25/2017
Every day, up and down the country, hundreds of people come together to discuss books, in front rooms, kitchens, libraries and pubs. Over the last three decades, the book group […]

Duration:00:30:24