Book
Talk is no longer in production. Jill Kitson can still be heard
presenting Lingua Franca
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Final
Programs
The Very Last Edition Of Book Talk...
Saturday 21 January 2006
Matisse the Master: the Conquest of Colour. Another chance to hear Hilary Spurling on volume two of her Life of Henri Matisse.
Transcript
Alexandria
Saturday 14 January 2006
Another chance to hear Robert Dessaix on Michael Haag's portrait of the city Lawrence Durrell described as 'one of the great capitals of the heart: the capital of memory.'
Transcript
Breaking Ground...
Saturday 7 January 2006
At the Cheltenham Literature Festival, Daniel Libeskind, the internationally renowned architect of the Jewish Museum in Berlin and of the as-yet unbuilt Freedom Tower on Ground Zero in New York, on his adventures in life and architecture, as told in his autobiography Breaking Ground.
Transcript
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