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Playlist-style category page for memoir, gathering 7 Book Bag videos into one searchable site section.
1:05:44
The glamorous Paget twins had it all: looks, intellect, charm, personality. Ariane Bankes joins us to chat about 'The Quality of Love', the book she's written about her mother and aunt and how their lives intersected with some of the big names in mid-century literature: Orwell, Camus, Koestler just for starters.
1:03:09
Journalist, activist and novelist Paul Burston returns to the Book Bag to discuss his hard-hitting but glitzy memoir 'We Can Be Heroes' and what it means to be a 'Method fan
1:41:53
Tom Hodgkinson is the founder/editor of the Idler magazine and the author of 'How to be Idle', 'How to be Free' and 'An Idler's Manual'. He explains how a medieval lifestyle is one to embrace, not shun, how idling differs from laziness, and how the idle approach to parenting went down with his kids.
1:03:51
The former literary editor of the Sunday Times and the Independent, John Walsh is the author of the novel 'Sunday at the Cross Bones' and two previous memoirs, 'The Falling Angels' and 'Are You Talking to Me?: A life in the movies'. His latest book is 'Circus of Dreams: Adventures in the 1980s literary world'.
1:08:13
Novelist Paul Burston is the author of 'Shameless', 'The Gay Divorcee', 'Star People' and the crime thrillers 'The Black Path' and 'The Closer I Get'. The host and creator of the award-winning Polari literary salon, he founded the three Polari prizes, for debut, non-debut and children's books with an LGBTQ+ focus.
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Charlie Hill is a Birmingham-based author, who has been described as 'the chronicler Birmingham needs'. His experience as a former bookseller in the city fed into his satirical novel 'Books', about a writer whose popular fiction is literally deadly.
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Today we welcome Blake Morrison to the Book Bag. Blake Morrison, poet, academic, critic and author of three acclaimed memoirs and four novels, discusses the book of sonnets he wrote for his deceased sister, his new musical collaboration, and what it was like to meet his idols Ted Hughes and Philip Larkin.
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