So excited to be able to announce that @saraband-books.bsky.social author, Graeme Macrae Burnet is the first guest on BBC Radio 4's #TakeFourBooks, starting this Sunday!
Tune in at the link below, where you can also listen to the programme trailer 🎉
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
#booksky
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Tune in at the link below, where you can also listen to the programme trailer 🎉
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
#booksky
💙📚
BBC Radio 4 - Take Four Books
James Crawford discusses an author's new book and its connections to three other works.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 24, 2024 at 4:09 PM
Today at 4pm on #TakeFourBooks on BBC Radio4 I’m talking to Eimear McBride about her new novel ‘The City Changes Its Face’ and her 3 influences, including Scott Walker & Marguerite Duras - also with @louisewelsh00.bsky.social! 🎧📚📻 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
March 16, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Today at 4pm on #TakeFourBooks on BBC Radio4 I’m talking to Eimear McBride about her new novel ‘The City Changes Its Face’ and her 3 influences, including Scott Walker & Marguerite Duras - also with @louisewelsh00.bsky.social! 🎧📚📻 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
4pm today on BBC Radio 4 we're talking to award winning-author Michelle de Kretser about her new novel 'Theory & Practice' & 3 works that inspired its creation - Ali Smith, Shirley Hazzard and Virginia Woolf...
#TakeFourBooks 📻🎧📚
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#TakeFourBooks 📻🎧📚
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January 26, 2025 at 11:59 AM
4pm today on BBC Radio 4 we're talking to award winning-author Michelle de Kretser about her new novel 'Theory & Practice' & 3 works that inspired its creation - Ali Smith, Shirley Hazzard and Virginia Woolf...
#TakeFourBooks 📻🎧📚
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#TakeFourBooks 📻🎧📚
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Great choices! I love #TakeFourBooks. Will listen to this episode tonight at 3 or 4am when I can't sleep (yet again).
March 22, 2026 at 8:29 PM
Great choices! I love #TakeFourBooks. Will listen to this episode tonight at 3 or 4am when I can't sleep (yet again).
4pm today on Radio 4 for another edition of TAKE FOUR BOOKS - I’m talking to A L Kennedy about her new novel, along with three influences - including the suitably epic Moby Dick and The Lord of the Rings #BookSky #TakeFourBooks www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
December 15, 2024 at 3:39 PM
4pm today on Radio 4 for another edition of TAKE FOUR BOOKS - I’m talking to A L Kennedy about her new novel, along with three influences - including the suitably epic Moby Dick and The Lord of the Rings #BookSky #TakeFourBooks www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Listen now to @irvinewelsh.bsky.social on #TakeFourBooks on BBC Radio 4 - talking Trainspotting sequel 'Men In Love' and his 3 influences, no less than James Joyce, Marcel Proust and Bill Shakespeare! Also with guest @kirstininnes.bsky.social
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August 10, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Listen now to @irvinewelsh.bsky.social on #TakeFourBooks on BBC Radio 4 - talking Trainspotting sequel 'Men In Love' and his 3 influences, no less than James Joyce, Marcel Proust and Bill Shakespeare! Also with guest @kirstininnes.bsky.social
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4pm BBCRadio4 #TakeFourBooks @vincenzo.bsky.social
is talking to me about his International @thebookerprizes.bsky.social shortlisted @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social novel 'Perfection' on the emptiness of contemporary existence, and 3 influences, incl Patricia Lockwood www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
is talking to me about his International @thebookerprizes.bsky.social shortlisted @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social novel 'Perfection' on the emptiness of contemporary existence, and 3 influences, incl Patricia Lockwood www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
April 27, 2025 at 2:50 PM
4pm BBCRadio4 #TakeFourBooks @vincenzo.bsky.social
is talking to me about his International @thebookerprizes.bsky.social shortlisted @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social novel 'Perfection' on the emptiness of contemporary existence, and 3 influences, incl Patricia Lockwood www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
is talking to me about his International @thebookerprizes.bsky.social shortlisted @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social novel 'Perfection' on the emptiness of contemporary existence, and 3 influences, incl Patricia Lockwood www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
This week on #TakeFourBooks on BBC Radio 4 I was talking to Maggie O’Farrell about new novel LAND, what it means to map a country, & her 3 influences, including Jospeh O’Connor and Marie Heaney - listen now! 🎧📚📻👇
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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June 23, 2026 at 1:43 PM
This week on #TakeFourBooks on BBC Radio 4 I was talking to Maggie O’Farrell about new novel LAND, what it means to map a country, & her 3 influences, including Jospeh O’Connor and Marie Heaney - listen now! 🎧📚📻👇
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
David Szalay on Take Four Books - talking about his new book Flesh 📚
#booksky #bbcradio4 #takefourbooks
#booksky #bbcradio4 #takefourbooks
Take Four Books - David Szalay - BBC Sounds
David Szalay talks about his new novel and the three other works that helped to shape it.
www.bbc.co.uk
March 23, 2025 at 9:55 PM
David Szalay on Take Four Books - talking about his new book Flesh 📚
#booksky #bbcradio4 #takefourbooks
#booksky #bbcradio4 #takefourbooks
Loved talking to Ian McEwan (& @damedenisemina.bsky.social!) on BBCRadio4
#TakeFourBooks about climate, memory & the way the past haunts the present in his new @jonathancape.bsky.social novel WHAT WE CAN KNOW with 3 influences incl the epic
Footsteps by Richard Holmes
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#TakeFourBooks about climate, memory & the way the past haunts the present in his new @jonathancape.bsky.social novel WHAT WE CAN KNOW with 3 influences incl the epic
Footsteps by Richard Holmes
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
September 14, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Loved talking to Ian McEwan (& @damedenisemina.bsky.social!) on BBCRadio4
#TakeFourBooks about climate, memory & the way the past haunts the present in his new @jonathancape.bsky.social novel WHAT WE CAN KNOW with 3 influences incl the epic
Footsteps by Richard Holmes
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
#TakeFourBooks about climate, memory & the way the past haunts the present in his new @jonathancape.bsky.social novel WHAT WE CAN KNOW with 3 influences incl the epic
Footsteps by Richard Holmes
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
It’s a whale-filled #TakeFourBooks today, 4pm Radio 4 with Xiaolu Guo’s epic @vintagebooks.bsky.social reworking of Moby Dick CALL ME ISHMAELLE & influences including Melville, Philip Hoare & Othello-also with Alan McMunnigall @thiwurd.bsky.social! #BookSky 💙https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002b6lt
April 20, 2025 at 12:45 PM
It’s a whale-filled #TakeFourBooks today, 4pm Radio 4 with Xiaolu Guo’s epic @vintagebooks.bsky.social reworking of Moby Dick CALL ME ISHMAELLE & influences including Melville, Philip Hoare & Othello-also with Alan McMunnigall @thiwurd.bsky.social! #BookSky 💙https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002b6lt
Listen now to my BBC Radio4 #TakeFourBooks chat with Andrew Michael Hurley about new novel SALTWASH and three influences including Philip Larkin's 'Aubade', 'Free Will' by Sam Harris, and Shirley Jackson's chilling 'The Summer People'
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December 28, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Listen now to my BBC Radio4 #TakeFourBooks chat with Andrew Michael Hurley about new novel SALTWASH and three influences including Philip Larkin's 'Aubade', 'Free Will' by Sam Harris, and Shirley Jackson's chilling 'The Summer People'
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Listen now to my BBC R4 chat with Salman Rushdie about new work THE ELEVENTH HOUR and his 3 picks of influences, including E.M. Forster, Franz Kafka’s unfinished novel Amerika & the Pied Piper of Hamelin! #TakeFourBooks www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
December 14, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Listen now to my BBC R4 chat with Salman Rushdie about new work THE ELEVENTH HOUR and his 3 picks of influences, including E.M. Forster, Franz Kafka’s unfinished novel Amerika & the Pied Piper of Hamelin! #TakeFourBooks www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
#TakeFourBooks is back on BBC Radio 4 at 4pm!
I'm talking to Tessa Hadley about her new @jonathancape.bsky.social novel 'The Party', along with her 3 influences: books by Alice Munro, Elizabeth Bowen & Colm Toibin. Have a listen! 📻🎧
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
I'm talking to Tessa Hadley about her new @jonathancape.bsky.social novel 'The Party', along with her 3 influences: books by Alice Munro, Elizabeth Bowen & Colm Toibin. Have a listen! 📻🎧
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Take Four Books, Tessa Hadley
James Crawford speaks to the writer Tessa Hadley about her new book and influences.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 8, 2024 at 12:31 PM
#TakeFourBooks is back on BBC Radio 4 at 4pm!
I'm talking to Tessa Hadley about her new @jonathancape.bsky.social novel 'The Party', along with her 3 influences: books by Alice Munro, Elizabeth Bowen & Colm Toibin. Have a listen! 📻🎧
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
I'm talking to Tessa Hadley about her new @jonathancape.bsky.social novel 'The Party', along with her 3 influences: books by Alice Munro, Elizabeth Bowen & Colm Toibin. Have a listen! 📻🎧
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Today on #TakeFourBooks on BBCR4 I was talking to Karl Ove Knausgaard about new novel THE SCHOOL OF NIGHT and 3 ‘Faustian’ influences incl Thomas Mann & the memoir of @willsergeant.com from @bunnymen.com! Listen now! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
November 23, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Today on #TakeFourBooks on BBCR4 I was talking to Karl Ove Knausgaard about new novel THE SCHOOL OF NIGHT and 3 ‘Faustian’ influences incl Thomas Mann & the memoir of @willsergeant.com from @bunnymen.com! Listen now! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Listen now to our Radio4 #TakeFourBooks chat with @damedenisemina.bsky.social about new novel ‘The Good Liar’, and 3 influences - 1984, Obedience to Authority and the Dorothy Thompson’s essay ‘Who Goes Nazi?’ - also with Kim Sherwood! 👇🎧📻📚
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
July 27, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Listen now to our Radio4 #TakeFourBooks chat with @damedenisemina.bsky.social about new novel ‘The Good Liar’, and 3 influences - 1984, Obedience to Authority and the Dorothy Thompson’s essay ‘Who Goes Nazi?’ - also with Kim Sherwood! 👇🎧📻📚
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Listen now to my chat on Radio4 with Gurnaik Johal on his debut @serpents-tail.bsky.social novel Saraswati on #TakeFourBooks: where a lost river re-emerges in contemporary India. His 3 influences include @amitav.bsky.social, Joseph Conrad and poet Natalie Diaz! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
July 20, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Listen now to my chat on Radio4 with Gurnaik Johal on his debut @serpents-tail.bsky.social novel Saraswati on #TakeFourBooks: where a lost river re-emerges in contemporary India. His 3 influences include @amitav.bsky.social, Joseph Conrad and poet Natalie Diaz! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Today on #TakeFourBooks on BBC R4 I'm talking to Makenna Goodman about her new @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social novel HELEN OF NOWHERE & her 3 influences: Jean Giono's "The Man Who Planted Trees", Bell Hooks' "All About Love" & the plays of Pulitzer-winner Annie Baker www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
January 11, 2026 at 3:33 PM
Today on #TakeFourBooks on BBC R4 I'm talking to Makenna Goodman about her new @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social novel HELEN OF NOWHERE & her 3 influences: Jean Giono's "The Man Who Planted Trees", Bell Hooks' "All About Love" & the plays of Pulitzer-winner Annie Baker www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
On latest #TakeFourBooks I’m talking to poet and memoirist Sean Hewitt about his debut novel ‘Open Heaven’ & 3 influences including E M Forster’s Maurice, LP Hartley’s The Go-Between and Edna O’Brien’s The Country Girls! Listen now 🎧📻📚 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
May 25, 2025 at 3:55 PM
On latest #TakeFourBooks I’m talking to poet and memoirist Sean Hewitt about his debut novel ‘Open Heaven’ & 3 influences including E M Forster’s Maurice, LP Hartley’s The Go-Between and Edna O’Brien’s The Country Girls! Listen now 🎧📻📚 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
So excited to be able to announce that @saraband-books.bsky.social author, Graeme Macrae Burnet is the first guest on BBC Radio 4's #TakeFourBooks, starting this Sunday!
Tune in at the link below, where you can also listen to the programme trailer 🎉
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
#booksky
💙📚
Tune in at the link below, where you can also listen to the programme trailer 🎉
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
#booksky
💙📚
BBC Radio 4 - Take Four Books
James Crawford discusses an author's new book and its connections to three other works.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 22, 2024 at 2:26 PM
So excited to be able to announce that @saraband-books.bsky.social author, Graeme Macrae Burnet is the first guest on BBC Radio 4's #TakeFourBooks, starting this Sunday!
Tune in at the link below, where you can also listen to the programme trailer 🎉
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
#booksky
💙📚
Tune in at the link below, where you can also listen to the programme trailer 🎉
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
#booksky
💙📚
Listen to my chat with Sarah Hall on #TakeFourBooks on BBC Radio4 discussing new @faberbooks.bsky.social novel HELM (the first book to have a wind as its main character?) & 3 influences incl George Saunders & Angela Carter. With Alan McMunnigall of @thiwurd.bsky.social! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
August 24, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Listen to my chat with Sarah Hall on #TakeFourBooks on BBC Radio4 discussing new @faberbooks.bsky.social novel HELM (the first book to have a wind as its main character?) & 3 influences incl George Saunders & Angela Carter. With Alan McMunnigall of @thiwurd.bsky.social! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
I talked to Ocean Vuong on #TakeFourBooks on BBC Radio 4 about his new @vintagebooks.bsky.social novel “The Emperor of Gladness” and his three influences, including The Brothers Karamazov and Jack Kerouac - listen now! 📚🎧👇
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
May 18, 2025 at 4:15 PM
I talked to Ocean Vuong on #TakeFourBooks on BBC Radio 4 about his new @vintagebooks.bsky.social novel “The Emperor of Gladness” and his three influences, including The Brothers Karamazov and Jack Kerouac - listen now! 📚🎧👇
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Loved having brill @olgaravn.bsky.social on BBCR4’s #TakeFourBooks today - talking about her new novel THE WAX CHILD & 3 influences inc M.R. James and a book of southern Italian spells! 📚📻🎧https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002m96r
November 16, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Loved having brill @olgaravn.bsky.social on BBCR4’s #TakeFourBooks today - talking about her new novel THE WAX CHILD & 3 influences inc M.R. James and a book of southern Italian spells! 📚📻🎧https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002m96r
Listen now to my chat with Colm Toibin on #TakeFourBooks on Radio 4 - talking about Long Island (his first sequel!) and three influences, Hardy, Conrad & Wharton - also with @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
July 13, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Listen now to my chat with Colm Toibin on #TakeFourBooks on Radio 4 - talking about Long Island (his first sequel!) and three influences, Hardy, Conrad & Wharton - also with @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Listen now to my BBCR4 chat with Jo Nesbø about latest novel WOLF HOUR, “saving the cat” vs “killing the cat”, taxidermy, & 3 influences including Jim Thompson, Knut Hamsun and Brett Easton Ellis #TakeFourBooks
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
December 7, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Listen now to my BBCR4 chat with Jo Nesbø about latest novel WOLF HOUR, “saving the cat” vs “killing the cat”, taxidermy, & 3 influences including Jim Thompson, Knut Hamsun and Brett Easton Ellis #TakeFourBooks
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...