I’m really happy that Myfanwy Alexander chose Guide Books: On Nature with Helen Macdonald and Melissa Harrison, along with The Food Programme: Jack Monroe: A Life Through Food and Open Book: Julian Barnes for Pick of the Week on BBC Radio 4.
To hear the full Pick of the Week programme click here.
Read MoreI’m excited to announce that Guide Books will be returning to BBC Radio 4 on Sunday 10th April! You can hear me talking with Sinéad Gleeson and Sarah Perry about The Body. All episodes are also available to listen on BBC iPlayer.
Read MoreYou can catch the third and final episode of Guide Books on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds tomorrow, Tuesday 29th June, 11.30am. Damian is joined by Helen Macdonald and Melissa Harrison to discuss books to deepen our engagement with nature.
Guide Books has been chosen as Pick of the Week in the Radio Times, New Statesman, The Guardian, The Tablet, Observer and The Telegraph!
Click here to listen to all three episodes of Guide Books.
Read MoreWe're delighted that Guide Books is a Pick of the Week in the Radio Times. Thank you all for your excitement about the show. It starts today at 11.30am on BBC Radio 4 and you can catch it any time after on BBC iPlayer or BBC Sounds. My guests today are Sinéad Gleeson and Sarah Perry and we're discussing the Body.
Click here for more info about Guide Books.
Read MoreI’m really looking forward to hosting my own series for Radio 4. It’s called Guide Books. The producer is Mair Bosworth and she’s doing great work bringing this idea to life.
Guide Books is a new series about how books might help us navigate everyday life, presented by writer and broadcaster Damian Barr.
Each episode takes a life experience - such as grief - and talks to writers about they handle it through their own reading, writing and lived experience. We explore the fiction, non-fiction, memoir and poetry that might help us better understand our own stories.
The first episode will be aired on BBC Radio 4, Tuesday 15th June at 11.30am. I’ll be joined by Sarah Perry and Sinead Gleeson to talk about fiction, poetry and memoir that might help us better understand our relationship with our bodies.
CLICK HERE for more info and how to listen to the series.
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