28.03.2022 - The Lost Café Schindler by Meriel Schindler Launched in 1922 by two Jewish brothers, the grand Café Schindler in Maria-Theresien-Straße, Innsbruck offered guests a place to socialize, dance and forget the horrors of the First World War and the...
21.02.2022 - Speziell zur Sendung am Dienstag, den 01. Oktober 2019: ‘Middle England’ (2018) by Jonathan Coe Maria, Sandra and Andrew discuss the novel. “Beginning in 2010, on the outskirts of Birmingham, where car factories have been...
21.02.2022 - Speziell zur Sendung am Dienstag, den 05. November 2019: ‘Blood Summit’ by Robert Pimm “Counter-terrorism expert Helen Gale has one job: to protect world leaders at a summit in the Berlin Reichstag. But terrorists take hostage...
07.02.2022 - Speziell zur Sendung am Dienstag, den 01. Februar 2022: The Promise, Damon Galgut (2021) Sandra, Sonja and Andrew discuss the 2021 Booker Prize winning novel ‘The Promise’, by Damon Galgut. “The Promise charts the crash and burn of a white...
31.01.2022 - Speziell zur Sendung am Dienstag, den 03. Dezember 2019: Ian McEwan: Machines Like Me (2019) Sandra, Sonja and Andrew play extracts from Ian McEwan’s 2019 novel ‘Machines Like Me’ (read by Billy Howle) and discuss the book....
31.01.2022 - Speziell zur Sendung am Dienstag, den 07. Jänner 2020: ‘Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine’ (2017) by Gail Honeyman Eleanor Oliphant leads a simple life. She wears the same clothes to work every day, eats the same meal deal for lunch...
31.01.2022 - Speziell zur Sendung am Dienstag, den 04. Februar 2020: Edward Snowden: ‘Permanent Record’ (2019) George, Tom, Sandra and Andrew discuss Edward Snowden’s extraordinarily courageous book ‘Permanent Record’, a most...
31.01.2022 - A book about family loyalties and betrayal set in the context of a Muslim family in England.
31.01.2022 - Speziell zur Sendung am Dienstag, den 03. November 2020:Jesmyn Ward, ‘Sing, Unburied, Sing’ (2017) Maria, Sandra and Andrew discuss an extraordinary novel: an intimate portrait of a family and an epic tale of hope and struggle. This road novel...
31.01.2022 - Speziell zur Sendung am Dienstag, den 05. Jänner 2021: Reading Circle, Jan 5, 2021 Maria, Sandra and Andrew each choose 3 of their favourite books, from the 75 books discussed in the Reading Circle since Autumn 2012. Maria: Barbara Kingsolver:...
31.01.2022 - Speziell zur Sendung am Dienstag, den 02. Februar 2021: Janet Frame: ‘An Angel at My Table’ (1989) After being mis-diagnosed with schizophrenia as a young woman, Janet Frame spent several years in psychiatric institutions. She...
31.01.2022 - Speziell zur Sendung am Dienstag, den 02. März 2021: Jan Morris ‘Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere’ (2001) Sandra, Alex and Andrew discuss. This history-drenched City on the Adriatic always tantalized Jan Morris....
31.01.2022 - Speziell zur Sendung am Dienstag, den 06. April 2021: Reading Circle Tues April 6, 2021 Lily King: ‘Euphoria’ (2014) In 1933 three young, gifted anthropologists are thrown together in the jungle of New Guinea. They are Nell Stone,...
31.01.2022 - Speziell zur Sendung am Dienstag, den 01. Juni 2021: The Lost Pianos of Siberia, Sophy Roberts (2020) Andrew and Sandra read extracts from and comment on the book. “Siberia’s story is traditionally one of exiles, bitter cold and suffering. Yet...
