Past Programs
Books - Biography - 2006
Adventures in Poetry: No Coward Soul
20/12/2006
Today on The Book Show we get to wander the Yorkshire Moors with the BBC's Peggy Reynolds as she enters the world of Emily Bronte. (Because of our copyright agreement with the BBC this program is unavailable for podcast.)
Robert Dessaix talks about Twilight of Love
22/11/2006
This week we've started a new First Person reading – Robert Dessaix is reading Twilight of Love: Travels With Turgenev. We wanted to talk to Robert about his relationship to the life of this Russian writer.
Robert first read Turgenev as a youth. For this book he's travelled to the places in Europe where the great Russian writer put down roots. He's trying to glimpse this 19th century Russian aristocrat whose ideas, about love in particular, have been turning themselves over inside Robert for most of his life. On the Book Show, we've tried to speak with our First Person writers if we could over the year, and Robert joined Ramona from the ABC's Hobart studios.
