Chiltern Voice Book Club
Chiltern Voice Book Club is a weekly radio show in which Antonia Honeywell talks books, writing reading and publishing with a varied range of brilliant writers.
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Chiltern Voice Book Club is a weekly radio show in which Antonia Honeywell talks books, writing reading and publishing with a varied range of brilliant writers. Each guest chooses a selection of songs which are played as part of the show. Unfortunately the songs can't be included here, but the words and the wisdom are unmissable. Tune in to chilternvoice.fm on Saturdays from 12 till 2 to hear the show complete with songs.
Chiltern Voice Book Club is a weekly radio show in which Antonia Honeywell talks books, writing reading and publishing with a varied range of brilliant writers. Each guest chooses a selection of songs which are played as part of the show. Unfortunately the songs can't be included here, but the words and the wisdom are unmissable. Tune in to chilternvoice.fm on Saturdays from 12 till 2 to hear the show complete with songs.
Adele Geras brings her alter ego Hope Adams to Book Club to talk about Dangerous Women, her new novel exploring the fascinating history of the Rajah quilt and the 1841 voyage of the convict ship upon which it was created. At least, that was the...
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1 hr 2 min
Eleanor Fitzsimons joins Antonia to talk, not only about the unconventional life and extraordinary work of children’s author E. Nesbit, but about her own writing life and the very personal experience of the cancer that struck her as this fascinating...
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1 hr 2 min
Lev is an orchestral conductor, a naturalist and a writer. He takes Antonia on a gentle stroll through his music choices, taking in rediscovering the joy of birds and birdwatching, working with Unbounders, emergency birds and making Twitter a pleasant...
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56 min
Lorna Gibb joins Antonia in a personal and wide-ranging discussion of her novel A Ghost’s Story, her memoir Childless Voices and her biographies of Rebecca West and Hester Stanhope.
Matt Monroe: Walk away
Joni Mitchell: Marcie
Eddi Reader: Jamie,...
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56 min
International bestseller and Pulitzer Prize winning author Jane Smiley joins Antonia to talk about her new novel, The Strays of Paris, taking in husbands and ex-husbands and horses along the way. And cowboys and first love and Dickens and Shakespeare....
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51 min
Salena Godden talks about life and death and writing and joy, about sharing the very early stages of Mrs. Death on national radio, about a life spent revelling in words - and about having your debut novel optioned for film by Idris Elba. Join us for...
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56 min
Stella Duffy joins Antonia to talk about life and death and joy and Fun Palaces and the fierce wonder of the young, and about love and music and diagonal family relationships and beauty, all wrapped in her glorious new novel, Lullaby Beach.
Global...
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1 hr 9 min
Antonia chats with Tim Finch about his critically acclaimed novel, The House Of Journalist, and Tim talks openly and honestly about the experience of writing and publishing a second novel. That second novel, Peace Talks, about being shortlisted for...
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52 min
Anne Booth talks about the joy, the responsibility and the beauty of writing for children, from picture books to young readers to her Carnegie-listed middle-grade novel Girl With a White Dog. She also talks about the writing of Small Miracles, her...
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57 min
From Victorian England to Ancient Egypt, from travelling circus to deserted mansion, Emma discusses how she creates compelling characters and stories across a range of settings and times, how her career as a teacher prepared her for life as a...
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47 min
Andy Miller, author of The Year of Reading Dangerously and co-host of Backlisted Pod, talks about the power of reading and the art of writing, and plays a marvellous and unexpected selection of Northern Soul.
Needle in a Haystack - The Velvelettes...
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1 hr 3 min
One Christmas Night
Hayley talks Christmas and kindness and how Twitter at its best gave rise to her novel One Christmas Night.
Thank God It's Christmas - Queen
Blue Christmas - Elvis
Gaudete - Steelye Span
Walking in the Air - Peter Auty
Last...
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56 min
Antonia discusses perfect books for Christmas giving with prolific reader and book blogger Clare Reynolds (@yearsofreading).
Clare’s song choices were
Step into Christmas - Elton John
Mary’s Boy Child - Boney M
O Holy Night - *NSYNC
I ‘ll be home for...
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56 min
Sophia Bennett talks perseverance, reinvention and the rewards of self-compassion as we untie the wonder of The Windsor Knot, in which Queen Elizabeth II turns Golden Age detective.
Grace Jones - Slave to the Rhythm
Kylie - Santa Baby
Ian Dury...
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1 hr 6 min
Sam Mills talks about her beautiful and tender memoir, The Fragments of My Father; about love, loss and Leonard Woolf; about the power and cost of caring; about writing, Will Self and setting up an independent press. We get a bit cross. We laugh. We...
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1 hr 5 min
Journalist, film-maker and sorta-biographer Darren Richman joins Book Club to talk comedy, writing partnerships and Pat Sharp, and we meander (at least partly drawn by Leonard Cohen and Jarvis Cocker) into a strangely life-affirming place where comedy...
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1 hr 2 min
Writer and musician James Cook discusses his tender and moving memoir about connecting with his autistic daughter through music, including his own experiences with 90s band Flamingoes.
Cloudbusting - Kate Bush
Rebel Rebel - David Bowie
Life’s What...
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50 min
Naturalist, television producer and prolific writer Stephen Moss joins me to talk about birds - all kinds of birds, but particularly the swallow, which is the subject of his latest book. We discuss lockdown, writing and the healing power of nature,...
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1 hr 3 min
Bestselling author Una McCormack and I boldly go where no edition of Book Club has gone before as we talk Blake`s Seven, Star Wars, Doctor Who, Star Trek and the power of space opera to change the world.
Una`s songs were:
Come All Ye Rolling...
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1 hr
Amanda Jennings discusses her long and often challenging journey to her current status as the Queen of Cornish Noir with honesty warmth and generosity. We talk perseverance, family, the brilliance of teenagers and the importance of friends as well as...
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1 hr 2 min
Miranda Dickinson is made of glitter and starlight, two qualities which she sprinkles liberally into her bestselling stories of love and romance. Her publication story is a source of encouragement to all aspiring writers as, with her steely work ethic...
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1 hr 8 min
Bestselling historian Anne Sebba enthralls with her stories of Elizabeth Taylor and Madonna, the unknown letters of Ernest and Wallis Simpson, being Reuters` first female journalist, love, loss - and writing. Anne`s songs were:
The Beatles - Yesterday...
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58 min