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Sundays at 8.30am and 3.35pm From 30 January 2005 you can hear two Short Stories each Sunday. The second program, at 3.35pm, is a discrete progam, not a repeat of the 8.30am program. Short Story on Radio National, the best of classic and contemporary short fiction from Australian and world writers read by some of Australia's leading actors. [more about Short Story] Coming upThe Club Sunday 27/08/2006 Caroline Lee has completed a Bachelor of Arts with Honours at Melbourne University, and is currently enrolled part time in the Professional Writing and Editing course at RMIT. She has had a number of short stories published, received first prize for a short story in the 2004 Fellowship of Australian Writers writing competition, and recently won the Marion Eldridge Award for emerging woman writers. Her first novel, Stripped, is heading towards its second draft. She is an experienced and talented actress as well as a writer. [ more ] The Story Bag Sunday 27/08/2006 Philip Gooden lives in Bath. Well known for his Nick Revill series, each of which revolves around a Shakespearean play mirroring life, he is also the author of The Guinness Guide to Better English and the editor of The Mammoth Book of Literary Anecdotes. [ more ] My Father, the Englishman and I Sunday 03/09/2006 Nuruddin Farah is a Somali novelist, writing in English and Somali. Farah has often dealt with the history of his country through the fates of his characters. [ more ] Death of an Artist Sunday 03/09/2006 Carol Shields' work combines an exquisite eye for detail and an eagerness to explore the most fundamental of relationships and the wildest of coincidences. She illuminates the absurdities and miracles that grace all of our lives. [ more ] Recent programs Audio updates Sundays at 10am and 5pm AEST | Help with listening Midnight, Confessions of an Only Child 20/08/2006 Rosalind Dixon was born in Cape Town and spent fifteen years living in Perth. [ more...] Brixton 20/08/2006 Maeve Binchy was born in a small village outside of Dublin, Ireland. She spent her childhood living in Dalkey, an experience she draws on today when creating the rural villages usually at the heart of her novels. [ more...] A Day at the Beach 13/08/2006 Jean Bedford was born in Cambridge, England in 1946 and came to Australia in 1947. She has taught school, worked as a journalist and publisher and lectured in creative writing at several universities. She was Literary and Arts Editor of The National Times from 1981-5.[ more...] Along the Riverwall 13/08/2006 Colum McCann is a novelist, short-story writer and journalist who was born in Dublin in 1965 and now lives in New York. He is the holder of two Hennessy Awards (Best Newcomer and Best Overall categories 1990) and the winner of the 1994 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. “Dancer”, a biographical novel based on Rudolf Nureyev, was published in 2003 to great acclaim.[ more...] The Lion 06/08/2006 Evgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin was born on February 1884 in Lebedyan, Tambov guberniya. His first book 'Alone' was published in 1908, followed by District Tales' which brought him literary success. His anti-military tale 'At the End of the World' had him arrested and shipped off to the north, then finally acquitted. [ more...] Retail 06/08/2006 Neil Boyack is a Melbourne writer and performer. [ more...] A House Designed by Le Corbusier 30/07/2006 John Berger was born in London in 1926. His many books, innovative in form and far-reaching in their historical and political insight, include the Booker Prize-winning novel G, To the Wedding and King. [ more...] Radio National's Book Reading has more fiction during the week. |
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