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Program summaries 1999

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December 1999

THE SUMMER SEASON
Broadcast: 25/12/1999
John Bayley on Iris Murdoch.
Broadcast: 18/12/1999
Max Sebald at Cheltenham.
Broadcast: 11/12/1999
Out of Ireland and First Adult Books.
Broadcast: 04/12/1999

November 1999

Simon Singh on The Science of Secrecy.
Broadcast: 27/11/1999
Arie Dorfman on Censorship.
Broadcast: 20/11/1999
Professor John Sutherland on the future of the Novel.
Broadcast: 13/11/1999
Great Books of the Twentieth Century.
Broadcast: 06/11/1999

October 1999

Dennis Pryor and Judith Rodriguez on Homer's epic poem The Odyssey.
Broadcast: 23/10/1999
The 1999 Booker Prize.
Broadcast: 23/10/1999
Graham Little on V.S.Naipaul.
Broadcast: 16/10/1999
Nicholas Shakespeare on Bruce Chatwin.
Broadcast: 09/10/1999
Leo Marks; His story of the special operations Code War.
Broadcast: 02/10/1999

September 1999

Great Books of the Century
Broadcast: 25/09/1999
Anna Lanyon on Malinche
Broadcast: 18/09/1999
Graham Little on Paul Theroux's memoir of V.S. Naipaul.
Broadcast: 13/09/1999
The genocide in East Timor: who is responsible and why?
Broadcast: 11/09/1999
Great Books of the 20th Century.
Broadcast: 03/09/1999

August 1999

Geoffrey Robertson on Crimes Against Humanity
Broadcast: 28/08/1999
Philip Gourevitch talking about his book on Rwanda.
Broadcast: 21/08/1999
Andrew Riemer on Thomas Bernhard and Donald Kenrick on the Rom
Broadcast: 14/08/1999
Antony Beevor on Stalingrad.
Broadcast: 07/08/1999

July 1999

Great Books of the Century
Broadcast: 31/07/1999
Professor Colin Duckworth reviews The Burden of Respsibility and Dr Jean Taylor reviews The Mute's Soliloquy
Broadcast: 24/07/1999
IAN BURUMA talks about his book, VOLTAIRE'S COCONUTS or ANGLOMANIA IN EUROPE.
Broadcast: 17/07/1999
Dennis Prior and Judith Rodriguez on Homer's epic poem The Odyssey
Broadcast: 10/07/1999
Norman Thomas di Giovanni on his life and times with Borges
Broadcast: 03/07/1999

June 1999

Great Books of the Century
Broadcast: 26/06/1999
The Lives of Animals, Peter Singer and Tony Coady on J.M.Coetzee's new book
Broadcast: 19/06/1999
Heather Scutter on her book, Displaced Fictions.
Broadcast: 12/06/1999
NICHOLAS SHAKESPEARE talks about BRUCE CHATWIN - the biography.
Broadcast: 05/06/1999

May 1999

Great Books of the Century
Broadcast: 29/05/1999
Alan Duff on Both Sides of the Moon
Broadcast: 22/05/1999
Christopher Maclehose on Harvill Press
Broadcast: 15/05/1999
Simon Fanshawe on Roget's Thesaurus.
Broadcast: 08/05/1999
Pierre Ryckmans on Evelyn Waugh
Broadcast: 01/05/1999

April 1999

Great Books of the Century
Broadcast: 24/04/1999
Richard Crampton on Kosovo: A Short History
Broadcast: 17/04/1999
Leo Marks; His story of the special operations Code War.
Broadcast: 10/04/1999
Marion Hall on Vanity Fair and Oliver MacDonagh On Jonathan Swift
Broadcast: 02/04/1999

March 1999

Great Books of the Century
Broadcast: 27/03/1999
Brian Boyd on Nabokov
Broadcast: 20/03/1999
Eva Cox on The Whole Woman
Broadcast: 13/03/1999
Graham Little On V.S. Naipaul.
Broadcast: 06/03/1999

February 1999

Great Books of the Century
Broadcast: 27/02/1999
Peter Conrad on Iris Murdoch
Broadcast: 20/02/1999
Peter Rose on Peter Porter and Peter Steele on Seamus Heaney
Broadcast: 13/02/1999
Jonathan Bate on Shakespeare
Broadcast: 06/02/1999

January 1999

Humphrey Carpenter on Dennis Potter
Broadcast: 30/01/1999
Roslynn Haynes: Seeking the Centre
Broadcast: 23/01/1999
Norman Thomas Di Giovanni on Jorge Luis Borges
Broadcast: 16/01/1999
James L. Watson on McDonald's in the east
Broadcast: 09/01/1999
Hilary Spurling on Henri Matisse
Broadcast: 02/01/1999

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