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Bookmarks, Radio 3's online book club, is a one-stop platform delivering exclusive interviews with authors and editors, news and reviews. Plus bookish conversations with people you wont hear on the radio, and recommendations from notable folk.
Episódios
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Michel Bonnin on The Lost Generation
24/10/2013 Duração: 17minPhil Whelan asks Michel Bonnin, Director of the Sino-French Academic Centre at Tsinghua University and also author of the book "The Lost Generation: The Rustification of Chinese Youth (1968--1980) " to tell us what is the book about and how did he mana...
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How Asia Works: Success and Failure in the World's Most Dynamic Region
13/08/2013 Duração: 18minJoe Studwell speaks about his new book, How Asia Works
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Adam Johnson - Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction
13/08/2013 Duração: 16minPhil Whelan is joined by this years Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction (The Orphan Master's Son), Adam Johnson.
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Hung Kuen Fundamentals: Gung Gee Fok Fu Kuen
26/07/2013 Duração: 14minPhil Whelan meets martial arts expert and writer Hing Chao, who's just put together and published a manual on a 300 year old Kung Fu discipline called "Hung Kuen".
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Interview with British author, Joanna Kavenna
24/07/2013 Duração: 14minPhil Whelan had a chat with hot property British author, Joanna Kavenna. She is the author of The Ice Museum, Inglorious (which won the Orange Prize for New Writing), The Birth Of Love, and Come to the Edge. Her fiction has appeared in the New Yorker, ...
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Stephen King on When the Money Runs Out
23/07/2013 Duração: 14minStephen King, chief economist at HSBC, says the western world will have to accept that the last 60-70 years were the golden age and growth was abnormally strong. With the prospect of slower growth ahead and the need to deleverage, western countries wil...
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Pulitzer prize winner - Rae Armantrout
23/07/2013 Duração: 16minPhil Whelan meets 2010 Pulitzer prize for verse winner, Rae Armantrout on her poem and asks how she became a poet.
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Y K Pao: My Father
18/07/2013 Duração: 15minAnna Pao Sohmen, the daughter of the late shipping tycoon YK Pao, talks about her new book, "Y K Pao: My Father", dedicated to the memory of her famous father.
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Marshall Moore on his latest novel Bitter Orange
18/07/2013 Duração: 14minPhil Whelan talks to author and scholar Marshall Moore about his latest novel "Bitter Orange", which looks at just what would happen if somebody REALLY had what we might call "superhuman" powers.
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Mark O'Neill – Frederick- -The Life of My Missionary Grandfather in Manchuria
18/07/2013 Duração: 16minAuthor and scholar Mark O'Neill is one of the several writers here for the HK Book Fair 2013. He talks about a personal story of his grandfather, a missionary in Manchuria in the 19th century.
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Michael Vatikiotis on his latest book The Painter of Lost Souls
18/07/2013 Duração: 16minPhil Whelan is joined by Michael Vatikiotis, writer, and formerly a journalist for the BBC and chief editor of the Far East Economic Review to talk about his working experience as a journalist and his latest book, The Painter of Lost Souls.
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Echoes of Chongqing: Women in Wartime China
05/07/2013 Duração: 16minPhil Whelan meets author and Professor (of East Asian Studies at Fairfield University, USA) Danke Li on her new book "Echoes of Chongqing: Women in Wartime China". It documents the story of ordinary women in an extraordinary situation during the second...
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Book recommendation by Florence Hui, Under Secretary for Home Affairs
02/05/2013 Duração: 15minAngie Man is joined by Florence Hui, Under Secretary for Home Affairs, to talk about the books which have inspired her to see things with a holistic view, not just in work, but in all walks of life.
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Philip Eisenbeiss on The Bel Canto Bully
18/04/2013 Duração: 15minOn Morning Brew, Phil Whelan meets author Philip Eisenbeiss who has recently penned "The Bel Canto Bully" telling of the exploits of the legendary opera impresario, Domenico Barbaja (and accompanies a brand new NAXOS CD of the same name).
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Minfong Ho
08/04/2013 Duração: 22minMinfong Ho, award winning Chinese American writer talks about cross cultural challenges and her books for young readers.
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'The True to Life' book
26/03/2013 Duração: 18minJan Latta, an adventurous wildlife photographer and author of 'The True to Life' book series tells us about why it is important to educate children about endangered species and about the HK Young Readers Festival she participated in.
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Robert Newton on The Black Dog Gang
20/03/2013 Duração: 17minRobert Newton talks to Phil Whelan about his book "The Black Dog Gang" and how he started writing. Robert is also here for the 2013 Hong Kong Young Readers Festival.
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Tan Twan Eng - Winner of the 2013 Man Asian Literary Prize
15/03/2013 Duração: 10minPhil Whelan chats author Tan Twan Eng who was announced as the winner of the 2013 Man Asian Literary Prize. He is the first Malaysian author to win Asia’s most prestigious literary award.
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Hear the esteemed judges of 2013 Man Asian Literary Prize
14/03/2013 Duração: 16minPhil Whelan meets Dr. Maya Jaggi, Monique Truong and and Vikram Chandra, the esteemed judges of 2013 Man Asian Literary Prize and asks them the art of judging.
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Indian author Jeet Thayil on Narcopolis
13/03/2013 Duração: 13minIndian author Jeet Thayil tells Phil Whelan about his book, Narcopolis, which illustrates the transformation of Bombay to Mumbai - through the change of opium to heroin. He is one of the shortlisted finalists of the Man Asian Literary Prize.