Episode 24
Tune in to the last week before Mariella dons her Sky Arts-branded wellingtons for Hay-on-Wye as she talks liabilities with Professor Robert Winston, love stories with Joseph O’Connor, and loneliness with Jonathan Coe.
Joining Mariella for her last week in the studio before she ‘jets’ off to the Hay Festival (more accurately, gets a car, then a train, then another train, then a car...) are the avuncular Professor Robert Winston, the ever-amusing Jonathan Coe, and the enormously successful Joseph O’Connor.
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Mariella’s Recommended Reads
If you’ve read one – or more – of the new novels by this week’s guests and would like further ideas, you’ll love this! Visit our nattily-titled If You Liked That, You’ll Like This pages for more ideas and inspiration...
Bedside Table
Charlaine Harris, the popular author best-known for her vampire mysteries reveals some bedtime reading to get your teeth into...
Book Club
Designer-turned-author Bella Pollen takes us on a tour of her brand-new local bookshop, described by Vogue as “the perfect book shop”, and recommends a love-it-or-hate-it book club read.
The Write Place
We spy on Britain’s bestselling crime writer, Martina Cole, in the study where she pens her explosive thrillers...
A Fine Line
Best-selling author Philippa Gregory reveals her - appropriately historical - favourite line in all literature...
Book of the Decade
Professor Robert Winston, Joseph O’Connor and Jonathan Coe nominate their best book of the Noughties...
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