BBC R4 Open Book: A Book of One's Own featuring Nicola Beauman, publisher of Persephone Books
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As part of a six part series entitled A Book of One's Own, the BBC radio programme Open Book has been featuring women's writing in the last couple of programmes. Both are available to listen to on-line. The latest programme, featuring Nicola Beauman, publisher of Persephone Books, is here:-
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b012kn25
Mariella Frostrup presents the second part of her series examining the history of women's writing in the last hundred years. This week in A Book of One's Own she explores fiction of the 1930s and 40s - a time when the vote had been won but sexual inequality was still rife - with the help of writers and critics including Hermione Lee, Virginia Woolf's biographer, and feminist publisher Carmen Calil.
With the bicentenary of William Makepeace Thackeray's birth fast approaching we ask comedian Al Murray to tell us about his great, great, great grandfather and why he thinks Vanity Fair is still as relevant today as it was when it was first written in 1848.
Plus, we find out about a new charitable scheme which is giving away books for free.
Producer: Ella-mai Robey.
BOOKLIST
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY BICENTENNIAL
Al Murray’s (Thackeray’s great, great, great grandson) picks:
Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Going to See a Man Hanged – William Makepeace Thackeray
Publisher: unknown
Biography:
Thackeray – DJ Taylor
Publisher: Vintage
A BOOK OF ONE’S OWN – PART 2
Women writers:
A Room of One’s Own – Virginia Woolf
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Someone at a Distance – Dorothy Whipple
Publisher: Persephone Books Ltd
Driftwood – Dorothy Whipple
Publisher: Richardson
Invitation to the Waltz – Rosamond Lehmann
Publisher: Virago Press Ltd
South Riding – Winifred Holtby
Publisher: BBC Books
The contributors’ books:
Virginia Woolf – Hermione Lee
Publisher: Vintage
A Very Great Profession: The Woman's Novel 1914-39 – Nicola Beauman
Publisher: Persephone Books Ltd
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b012kn25
Mariella Frostrup presents the second part of her series examining the history of women's writing in the last hundred years. This week in A Book of One's Own she explores fiction of the 1930s and 40s - a time when the vote had been won but sexual inequality was still rife - with the help of writers and critics including Hermione Lee, Virginia Woolf's biographer, and feminist publisher Carmen Calil.
With the bicentenary of William Makepeace Thackeray's birth fast approaching we ask comedian Al Murray to tell us about his great, great, great grandfather and why he thinks Vanity Fair is still as relevant today as it was when it was first written in 1848.
Plus, we find out about a new charitable scheme which is giving away books for free.
Producer: Ella-mai Robey.
BOOKLIST
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY BICENTENNIAL
Al Murray’s (Thackeray’s great, great, great grandson) picks:
Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Going to See a Man Hanged – William Makepeace Thackeray
Publisher: unknown
Biography:
Thackeray – DJ Taylor
Publisher: Vintage
A BOOK OF ONE’S OWN – PART 2
Women writers:
A Room of One’s Own – Virginia Woolf
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Someone at a Distance – Dorothy Whipple
Publisher: Persephone Books Ltd
Driftwood – Dorothy Whipple
Publisher: Richardson
Invitation to the Waltz – Rosamond Lehmann
Publisher: Virago Press Ltd
South Riding – Winifred Holtby
Publisher: BBC Books
The contributors’ books:
Virginia Woolf – Hermione Lee
Publisher: Vintage
A Very Great Profession: The Woman's Novel 1914-39 – Nicola Beauman
Publisher: Persephone Books Ltd
3chrisharpe
A pleasure miss_read. The first in the series was quite brief, but since the second part had a lot more substance, I thought the series might be of interest to members of the group. See what you think. The first is available here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b012f8np
