15.04.2026 - Speziell zur Sendung am Dienstag, den 07. April 2026: The book we are introducing today won the Ondaatje Prize and the Slightly Foxed First Biography Prize. In January 2022 BBC Radio 4 serialised it in its Book of the Week series. The title of the...
15.04.2026 - Details für die Sendung am 2026-03-03 von 20:00 bis 20:30 ‘Prophet Song’ by Paul Lynch, winner of the Booker Prize for 2023, is the novel we are introducing this month. “In the dark times/ Will there also be singing?/ Yes, there will...
15.04.2026 - Details für die Sendung am 2026-04-09 von 13:06 bis 14:00 Burns Night (2) Playlist: texts read & music played 1. Robert Burns: O Whistle, and I’ll come to ye, my lad (read by Angus Robertson) 2. O Whistle, and I’ll come to ye,...
15.04.2026 - Burns Night (1) Texts read/ Music played – Reciter/ Performer 1. March: Pipes (P.R. MacLeod) – Scott Drummond 2. Scotch Drink/ Winter: A Dirge (Burns) – Andrew/ Sandra 3. Contented wi’Little (Burns/ Leopold Koǯeluh) –...
03.03.2026 - Deaf Sentence by David Lodge Today we introduce a novel by a very famous English author, David Lodge, who was born in London in 1935. He was a lecturer in English and then Professor of English Literature at the University of Birmingham from 1960...
03.03.2026 - Rilke (2) (1875 – 1926) Playlist (texts read & music played) 1. Richard Strauss: Tod und Verklärung 2. W.H. Auden on Rilke 3. Rilke: Schon starb der Tag 4. Sandra Richter (2025) on Rilke 5. Gerhard Zeillinger (Der Standard, 12. 2025) on...
19.01.2026 - Rilke (1) (1875 – 1926) Playlist (texts read & music played) 1. Rilke on ‘thinking with the heart’ 2. Robert Musil on Rilke 3. Auguste Rodin to Rilke 4. Rilke: Der Panther/ The Panther 5. Saint-Saëns: Le Cygne 6. Rilke: Der Schwan/ The...
19.01.2026 - Orbital by Samantha Harvey The book we introduce today won the Booker Prize in 2024. It’s a short book, with only 136 pages, and although it’s a novel, it doesn’t really tell a story. Instead, it documents the lives of the six astronauts on...
17.12.2025 - Speziell zur Sendung am Dienstag, den 02. Dezember 2025: What We Can Know by Ian McEwan Today we introduce the latest novel from one of the UK’s best-known writers, Ian McEwan. He is the critically acclaimed author of 19 novels and 2 short-story...
17.12.2025 - Details für die Sendung am 2025-11-04 von 20:00 bis 20:30 The Humour of Jane Austen In this month’s programme we are departing from our usual approach of introducing the most recently read book from our English Reading Circle. Instead we going...
