The Book Show – S1 Finale
In this the season’s final episode of The Book Show we walk across three cities to find out what connects writers and walkers by looking the work of William Hazlitt,…
The Book Show: Season 1
The Book Show – S1 #15
Sports Writing Michael Moynihan joins Sinead to discussion American Sports writing and how it compares to Irish. His own book GAAconomics looks at money in the GAA in Ireland. Jim…
The Book Show – S1 #14
Gay and Lesbian Sexuality in Literature Brian Merriman Director of the International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival and author of Wilde Stages in Dublin and broadcaster and Journalist Una Mullally join…
The Book Show – S1 #13
Short Stories – Pindrop This week’s show is dedicated to the short story, and we’re in three countries. In New York, we visited New Yorker Fiction Editor Deborah Treisman at…
The Book Show – S1 #12
JP Donleavy Almost 60 years ago, James Patrick Donleavy published what is now regarded as both a cult and classic Irish novel, in The Ginger Man. It was the beginning…
The Book Show – S1 #11
Hanif Kureishi Hanif Kureishi ’s new novel The Last Word focuses on the relationship between an ambitious young biographer; Harry Johnson and his subject; Mamoon Azam an elderly Indian novelist….
The Book Show – S1 #10
First World War On this week’s Show Broadcaster and Historian Myles Dungan and writer Lia Mills join Sinead Gleeson in studio to discuss books written about and during the First…
The Book Show – S1 #9
Junot Diaz Dominican writer Junot Diaz is the author of The Brief and Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao, which won him a Pulitzer Prize, and of the short story collection…
The Book Show – S1 #8
Kate Atkinson This week, Kate Atkinson won the Costa Novel of the Year Prize for her book, Life after Life. It tells the story of Ursula Todd, a woman who is reincarnated over the course…
The Book Show – S1 #7
On the show this week Sinead looks at Young Adult fiction with writer Sheena Wilkinson and David Maybury, Children’s Books Editor at Penguin Ireland as well as double Carnegie medal…
The Book Show – S1 #6
Ghost Stories The long, winter evenings have been here for a while, but as its winter solstice and we’re edging closer to Christmas, we thought it a good time to…
The Book Show – S1 #5
This week on The Book Show: Jamie Byng of Canongate and Sarah Davis Goff of Tramp Press discuss the role of the publisher and how manuscripts get from slushpile into…
The Book Show – Season 1 – Episode 4
Paul Auster Feature Paul Auster is one of America’s greatest writers, who has proved to be just as at home in the novel and short story, as in film scripts,…
The Book Show – S1 #3
On The Book Show The essay: with Deborah Levy and Mark O’Connell “So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style”,…
The Book Show – Season 1 – Episode 2
On The Book Show, Sinead Gleeson explores how three authors have retold, reworked and recreated fairytale and classic fiction and what it is that keeps writers returning to particular themes…
The Book Show – Season 1 – Episode 1
This is the first episode of The Book Show first broadcast on RTE Radio 1 on 2nd November 2013. The Book Show celebrates the writings of Maeve Brennan, talks to…