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Classic Booker Prize Winners: Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie - Part 2
Episode 60
In the second part of the Book In episode on Midnight's Children, Charlie and Rupert look at the way Salman Rushdie places the novel in the context o…
2 months ago
Classic Booker Prize Winners: Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie - Part 1
Episode 59
On the stroke of midnight of August 15th 1947, the nation of India became independent from Great Britain. Saleem Sinai, the central character of Salm…
2 months, 1 week ago
In conversation with Jesse Norman - The Winding Stair
Episode 58
Jesse Norman joins Book In to talk about his brilliant novel The Winding Stair, about the rivalry between Francis Bacon and Edward Coke as they battl…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
The Odyssey - Film Review
Episode 57
Christopher Nolan’s film of The Odyssey has been the blockbuster cultural event of the summer. Within a few weeks of release, it has already grossed …
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Early C20th Poets: W.B. Yeats - An Irish Airman, Rough Beasts and Golden Birds
Episode 56
“Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold” – the famous lines from W.B Yeats’ visionary and apocalyptic poem The Second Coming are as resonant today…
3 months ago
Early C20th Poets: W. B. Yeats - Innisfree to Easter 1916
Episode 55
In the early 20th century, as the nation of Ireland emerged from the turmoil of centuries of struggle, oppression, poverty and famine, one figure abo…
3 months, 1 week ago
Early C20th Poets: W.H. Auden
Episode 54
W H Auden wrote some of the most beautiful and complex poetry of the 20th century. Best known to modern audiences as the author of “Stop all the Cloc…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Early C20th Poets: T. S. Eliot - The Hollow Men, Ash Wednesday and Marina
Episode 53
In the second episode on T.S.Eliot, Book In looks at the poems he wrote after The Wasteland, as he moved towards a conversion to Christianity. In the…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Early C20th Poets: T. S. Eliot – Prufrock, Preludes and La Figlia Che Piange
Episode 52
The first poem that T.S.Eliot published, in 1915, was The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, and two years later, it was included as the title poem in …
3 months, 4 weeks ago
Early C20th Poets: Thomas Hardy
Episode 51
At the age of 55, and at the height of his fame, Thomas Hardy gave up writing novels and decided to devote the rest of his life to poetry. He was dis…
4 months ago