31.01.2022 - Speziell zur Sendung am Dienstag, den 06. Juli 2021: An Orchestra of Minorities (2019), Chigozie Obiama Angie, Sandra and Andrew read from and discuss this dramatic novel. A young farmer named Chinonso prevents a woman from falling to her...
31.01.2022 - ‘Never Let me Go’ (2005), Kazuo Ishiguro Kathy, Ruth and Tommy grew up together at Hailsham, a seemingly idyllic school deep in the English countryside, with a dreadful secret at its heart. Now 31, Kathy attempts to come to terms with...
31.01.2022 - The Ratline: Loves, Lies and Justice on the Trail of a Nazi Fugitive by Philippe Sands (2020) 1942: As Governor of Galicia, Otto von Wächter oversees the Final Solution 1945: Wächter is indicted for ‘mass murder’ and flees 1949: Wächter...
31.01.2022 - Sandra, Linda, Sonja, and Andrew discuss Ali Smith’s novel Autumn. In the previous programme Sandra and Andrew had introduced the book, reading extracts.
06.12.2021 - ‘Autumn’ (2016), by Ali Smith Daniel is a century old. Elisabeth, born in 1984, has her eye on the future. The UK is in pieces, divided by a historic once-in-a-generation summer….yes, Brexit. Love is won, love is lost....
01.02.2021 - Maria, Sandra and Andrew discuss an extraordinary novel: an intimate portrait of a family and an epic tale of hope and struggle.
01.02.2021 - Maria and Sandra discuss this highly topical, 'powerful exploration of the clash between society, family and faith in the modern world'. (the Guardian review)
01.02.2021 - Maria, Sandra and Andrew each choose 3 of their favourite books, from the 75 books discussed in the Reading Circle since Autumn 2012.
12.11.2019 - ‘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 presidents, prime ministers, one hundred innocent children...
12.11.2019 - ‘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 «Beginning in 2010, on the outskirts of Birmingham, where car factories have been replaced by Poundland, and London, where frenzied riots give way...
12.11.2019 - ‘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 every day, and buys the same two bottles of vodka to...
16.09.2019 - A Place of Execution, by Val McDermid (1999) In two separate sessions, Sandra and Andrew discuss this brilliantly executed novel… In the Peak District village of Scardale, 13-year-old girls don’t just run away. So, when Alison Carter vanished...
24.07.2019 - A Place of Execution, by Val McDermid (1999) In two separate sessions, Sandra and Andrew discuss this brilliantly executed novel… In the Peak District village of Scardale, 13-year-old girls don’t just run away. So, when Alison Carter vanished...
11.06.2019 - ‘The Only Story’ (2018) by Julian Barnes «Would you love the more, and suffer the more; or love the less, and suffer the less? That is, I think, finally, the only real question.» First love has lifelong consequences, but Paul...
