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Book Reading
The Book Show
By Design
The Deep End
Exhibit A
First Person
Lingua Franca
MovieTime
The Night Air
PoeticA
Short Story
Project
The Space
The Book Show
By Design
The Deep End
Exhibit A
First Person
Lingua Franca
MovieTime
The Night Air
PoeticA
Short Story
Project
The Space
 | Programs in 1998 Summaries are available for all stories, and some are transcribed. Click on a story title to see the full details. To see a list of only the stories which have been transcribed, please visit our transcript index. Audio-on-demand is available for the last four programs. ( Help with listening ) Stories by Year [ 2006 & 2005 | 2004 |2003 |2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999 | 1998 ] Stories by Subject [ 2006 & 2005 | 2004 | 2003 ] Program Summaries and Transcripts July 1998 Roger McDonald (Transcript) Friday 3 July 1998 Roger McDonald found the inspiration for his new and sixth novel, Mr Darwin's Shooter (Knopf) in the biographies of Syms Covington, assistant to Charles Darwin on the voyage of the Beagle. While Darwin never properly recognised the work of Covington, Roger McDonald explains to Ramona Koval that "through some special quality or hidden away capacity, which can only be investigated by fiction, Covington rises and find some balance with the world opinion". [ more ] April 1998 Andrew Motion on Keats (Transcript) Friday 3 April 1998 This is a transcript of a lecture on John Keats given by the Poet Laureate Andrew Motion in January 1998 in New York, recorded by Ramona Koval for Books and Writing. Andrew Motion explains his enduring passion for Keats and the way his world impacted on his poetry despite claims by other biographers that Keats was too much of a dreamer to have been affected by the realities of the world around him. [ more ] Stories by Year [ 2006 & 2005 | 2004 |2003 |2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999 | 1998 ] | |
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