Synopsis
From Nobel laureates to debut novelists, international translations to investigative journalism, each themed issue of Granta turns the attention of the worlds best writers on to one aspect of the way we live now. Granta does not have a political or literary manifesto, but it does have a belief in the power and urgency of the story and its supreme ability to describe, illuminate and make real. Our podcasts bring you readings & in depth discussions with highly acclaimed authors & rising stars from the quarterly magazine of new writing.
Episodes
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Sean Borodale: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 43
07/12/2012 Duration: 47minGranta New Poet Sean Borodale discusses his debut collection Bee Journal, shortlisted for he TS Eliot prize, with online editor Ted Hodgkinson.
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Robert Olen Butler: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 42
07/12/2012 Duration: 47minRobert Olen Butler reads his story 'Banyan' and talks to Ted Hodgkinson about how memory can be like compost and why every story is a search for an identity.
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Michel Laub: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 41
03/12/2012 Duration: 24minMichel Laub reads from his story in Best of Young Brazilian Novelists and discusses trespassing and fathers.
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Vinicius Jatoba & Jethro Soutar: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 40
28/11/2012 Duration: 34minBest of Young Brazilian Novelist Vinicius Jatobá and his translator Jethro Soutar on the challenges and intimacy of translation.
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Deborah Levy: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 39
19/10/2012 Duration: 43minDeborah Levy spoke to Ted Hodgkinson about being shortlisted for the Booker Prize for her novel, Swimming Home.
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Alison Moore: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 38
18/10/2012 Duration: 18minAlison Moore talks to John Freeman about her debut novel, The Lighthouse, which was shortlisted for the Man Booke Prize.
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Jeet Thayil: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 37
17/10/2012 Duration: 34minJeet Thayil talks to Ted Hodgkinson abot his Booker shortisted novel, Narcopolis.
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Tan Twan Eng: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 36
16/10/2012 Duration: 26minBooker shortlisted author Tan Twan Eng talks to John Freeman about The Garden of Eveing Mists.
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D.T. Max: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 35
08/10/2012 Duration: 50minD.T. Max on his biography: 'Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace'.
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Claire Vaye Watkins: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 34
13/08/2012 Duration: 28minClaire Vaye Watkins on her debut story collection Battleborn, finding ritual in relationships and drawing inspiration from cartoons, mythology and Paul Simon.
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Peter Stamm: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 33
19/07/2012 Duration: 26minPete Stamm reads from his novel Seven Years and discusses imagining his characters as buildings and whether people, in life and in his fiction, can change.
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Jo Shapcott & George Szirtes: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 32
13/07/2012 Duration: 42minPoets Jo Shapcott and George Szirtes on their poems inspired by Titian's interpetations of Ovid.
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Sam Byers: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 31
29/06/2012 Duration: 44minSam Byers talks about being introduced in Granta 119: Britain, turning office life into fiction and writing women.
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Rachel Seiffert: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 30
15/06/2012 Duration: 27minRachel Seiffert talks to Yuka Igarashi about her new fiction in the Britain issue.
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Mark Haddon: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 29
18/05/2012 Duration: 40minMark Haddon, author of 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time' talks about his latest novel, 'The Red House' and his story in Granta 119: Britain, 'The Gun'.
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Cynan Jones: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 28
08/05/2012 Duration: 31minCynan Jones on writing about adolesence, what we can learn from animals and why he doesn't want to be seen as a Welsh writer.
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Mo Yan: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 27
19/04/2012 Duration: 20minMo Yan talks to John Freeman at the London Book Fair about writing strong women and avoiding censorship.
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Andrés Neuman: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 26
05/04/2012 Duration: 57minAndres Neuman reads from his novel The Traveller of the Century and discusses translation, writing nineteenth century characters who smell and have sex and using a post modern aesthetic to tell an epic love story.
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Jeanette Winterson: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 25
22/03/2012 Duration: 28minJeanette Winterson reads from her new memoir, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal, and her story 'All I Know About Gertrude Stein' from Granta 115: The F Word. She also talks to Saskia Vogel about the line between truth and fiction and the pleasures of Twitter.
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John Barth: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 24
02/03/2012 Duration: 47minLive recording of John Barth reading his essay 'The End?' from Exit Strategies and discussing his career, discovering Tristram Shandy, what happened to postmodernism and ways of encouraging the muse to pay a visit.