Book Week NI: Recent Episodes

BBC Radio Ulster

Poetry, prose, fiction and non-fiction –the joy of reading is brought to life through informed discussion and debate from BBC NI.

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Midwife Rachel Byrne talks to Lynette, and Michael Portillo features on Evening Extra.

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Steven Rainey explores the link between classic horror movies and classic horror literature; Marie-Louise Muir has an interview from the archives with author Joan Lingard.

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Author Jan Carson and naturalist and writer Dara McAnulty pay tribute to Agatha Christie; publisher Lennie Goodings talks about the importance of women publishing for women.

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Fr Martin Magill reveals whether he fulfilled his Book Week challenge; young book worms speak to Vinny; student Aimee Clint talks to Tara and Declan about her books on autism

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A bookish pharmacist dispenses some good reads; Eoin Colfer talks about the Fowl twins, and Dr Michael Taylor discusses his new book on Britain's role in the abolition of slavery.

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Children's Commissioner Koulla Yiasouma talks about her favourite book as a child; author Emma Hetherington talks to Connor Phillips; Lynette Fay chats to Essential Reader Paul.

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We hear from some young readers; Essential Reader Cathy Shannon; crime writers Brian McGilloway and Claire Allan; the biography of rock band Therapy?

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Children's authors Máire Zepf, Katherine Rundell and Liz Weir talk about the special joy of reading in childhood. We hear from frontline health worker, and bookworm, Leoni Gracey.

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Writers Marian Keyes and Ann Cleeves talk to BBC Radio Ulster at the start of Book Week 2020. As well as Jennifer Foreman - a frontline health worker with a passion for books.

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BBC Northern Ireland’s well-known radio voices introduce the Book Week NI podcast, where you can hear interviews, debates and discussion about poetry prose and plays.