Guardian Artangel Books podcast: Caryl Phillips in A Room for London
In the fourth of our dispatches from A Room for London – a hotel installation in the shape of the boat in Joseph Conrad's novella Heart of Darkness – we hear from the novelist, screenwriter and essayist Caryl Phillips.For four days every month, as ...
Sven Lindqvist at the Room for London
In the third of our dispatches from A Room for London – a hotel installation in the shape of the boat in Joseph Conrad's novella The Heart of Darkness – we hear from the distinguished Swedish historian Sven Linqvist, whose works include Exterminate...
Juan Gabriel Vásquez at A Room for London
A Room for London is a small living space in the shape of the Roi des Belges - the boat in Joseph Conrad's novella The Heart of Darkness, which has been moored on the top of the South Bank as part of the Cultural Olympiad. For four days every month, as...
Do books have a future?
What does 21st-century technology hold for the printed word? Last week academics, librarians, publishers and writers descended on the Villa Reale, near Milan, to find out.We hear from a Senegalese publisher struggling with the differences between west ...
Ted Hughes reads his poems – audio
Children's books member and poetry-lover Luke Shore wanted to know what Ted Hughes sounded like - so he asked us if we could find any recordings of him reading. We did - and Luke introduces a selection from Hughes' Poems for Children: Cat, Thought Fox,...
Guardian Books podcast: Alan Bennett and Romantic Moderns
In the week of the Guardian first book award 2010, we go to the ceremony at London's Victoria and Albert Museum to listen in on the announcement. We hear from the winner, Alexandra Harris, about how she reshaped a doctoral thesis into a prize-winning b...
Modernism and the modern world
In the third of our encounters with authors shortlisted for the Guardian first book award, we whisk Alexandra Harris off to Cookham, the Berkshire village immortalised by artist Stanley Spencer, and ask what this famous eccentric had to do with the the...
