Radio

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