The Book Show

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The Book Show
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format = Book Discussion Show
runtime = 1 hour
country = Australia
language = English
home_station = Radio National
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producer = Michael Shirrefs
Sarah L'Estrange
exec_producer = Liz Gray
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first_aired = 2006
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website = http://www.abc.net.au/rn/bookshow/
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"The Book Show" is a Australian ABC radio program for the discussion of everything relating to the written word. It is broadcast live around Australia on Radio National with a daily weekday morning show which is then replayed nightly and also has a sunday evening show. The show is hosted by Ramona Koval and features a host of experts from various literary fields. The Book Show was created in 2006 and is the world's only daily radio program devoted to books, writing and publishing. The show has featured interviews such as with Salman Rushdie [ [http://www.abc.net.au/rn/bookshow/stories/2008/2227428.htm Salman Rushdie's enchantress 27 April 2008] ] and Ursula Le Guin [ [http://www.abc.net.au/rn/bookshow/stories/2008/2233834.htm Ursula K. Le Guin 4 May 2008] ] .

Format

The daily program explores the many worlds in which readers and writers, publishers and booksellers, playwrights and lyricists, bloggers and journalists, book illustrators and type designers are all working with words and the medium of language.

Presenter and Producers

Hosted by Ramona Koval who won the Order of Australia Media Award in 1995. She is well known for her extended and in-depth interviews with significant writers and has a long and varied career on radio. The show is produced by Michael Shirrefs and Sarah L'Estrange. The Executive Producer is Liz Gray.

Contributor Panel

* Philip Gourevitch, Paris Review
* Lewis H. Lapham, Lapham's Quarterly
* Professor Rukmini Bhaya Nair, Biblio India [ [http://www.biblio-india.org/ Biblio India] ]
* Robert B. Silvers, New York Review of Books
* Sir Peter Stothard, Times Literary Supplement
* Nury Vittachi, Asia Literary Review [ [http://www.asialiteraryreview.com/ Asia Literary Review] ]

References

External links

* [http://www.abc.net.au/rn/bookshow/ The Book Show website]
* [http://www.abc.net.au/rn/bookshow/about/default.htm About The Book Show]
* [http://www.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/feeds/bsw.xml The Book Show podcast]