Radio

The Romantic Road
A Journey Through the Literatures of Europe, BBC Radio 3

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The Spain of Cervantes
A Fine Thief: Alain-René Lesage
Heinrich von Kleist: “with cut eyelids”
The Netherlands: does Dutch literature exist?
Boredom and Longing: the state of Denmark
The Stones of Portugal
Austria: a century without qualities
Europe’s Crossroads: the Czech Republic and Slovakia
Italy: a European polyphony
Greece: the universality of little places
Alexander Pushkin: a secret freedom
Ukraine’s Three Worlds
The Polish Complex
Hungary: standing up to history
Iceland: all time is eternally present
Sweden: literature is news that stays news
The Baltic states: Quixote is dead! Long live Quixote!
The north Balkans: “who the hell would seek out literature in this country?”
Albania & Kosovo: a sane sense of freedom
What are novels for? with A S Byatt, Philip Hensher, Ingo Schulze, Slavenka Drákulic

Other radio features
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Chekhov’s Death: a matter of life and fiction, BBC Radio 4
A Day in the Country, the story of a country house in southern Ukraine, BBC Radio 3
François Rabelais: do what you will, a portrait of Rabelais, BBC Radio 3
Prisoner of the Caucasus, a story of Pushkin’s exile, BBC Radio 3
The Temptation of St Anthony, a radio life of Anton Chekhov, BBC Radio 3
The Authority of Failure, a centenary portrait of F Scott Fitzgerald, BBC Radio 3
RLS: Tusitala, The First Modernist, a portrait of Robert Louis Stevenson in Samoa, BBC Radio 3

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News

August 2010

José Saramago: a Life of Resistance,
BBC Four film

Making the World Legible,
a new translation anthology free online
see Events and download

"Hooking Reality: Creative non-fiction",
a new course for writers at Glencot House, Somerset, 10–14 January 2011. See Miller's Writers' Retreat for the new season of courses and to book

recent articles
The master of small things, Prospect
Pole positions, Times Literary Supplement
Letter from Odessa, Prospect
Illuminating the human heart, Prospect
Small wonder, Traveller
An eye on the world's absurdity, Guardian
Almost a British Balzac, Prospect
Mysteries afloat, Times Literary Supplement
Damned by his brain, Times Literary Supplement

also download radio features on
Robert Louis Stevenson
F Scott Fitzgerald
Anton Chekhov
Alexander Pushkin
François Rabelais
and listen to the 20-part BBC Radio 3 series on the rise of the European novel The Romantic Road, with interviews with
Henning Mankell
José Saramago
Javier Marías
Michel Houellebecq
Ismail Kadare
Camilo José Cela
Michel Tournier
Dubravka Ugresic
Marcel Möring
Cees Nooteboom
Marie Darrieusecq
Antonio Muñoz Molina
Manuel Vázquez Montalbán
Claudio Magris
Michel Déon
Harry Mulisch
Ivan Klíma
Dacia Maraini
Antonio Tabucchi
Friederike Mayröcker
Peter Pist'anek
Ludvík Vaculík
Pawel Huelle
Tadeusz Konwicki
Magda Szabó
Péter Esterházy
Andrei Bitov
Julia Latynina
Yuri Andrukhovych
Fatos Kongoli
Ólafur Gunnarsson
Einar Mar Gudmundsson
Per Olov Enquist
Sara Lidman
Slavenka Drakulic
Torgny Lindgren
Jaan Kross

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