Great Radio Website

I've just been listening to the radio on my laptop, as you do. Found a great website which has a large archive of BBC Radio 4 interviews with authors - just heard AS Byatt talking about "Possession", and Kazuo Ishiguro on "The Remains of the Day". If you're at a loose end some time, you might enjoy it too.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/specials/133_wbc_archive_new/page2.shtml

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Rosemary Brewer

Cutting For Stone

Hospital in Ethiopia in the time of Haile Selassie. Doctor sons - one stays and one goes to NY

Movie Recommendations

Dirty Pretty Things - Illegal aliens working in a Washington hotel - great movie says Rosemary and Fleur.

This Way of Life - NZ documentary of alternative family living on East Cape

The Lives of Others

Movie set in East Germany before the fall of the Wall - Stasi agent eavesdropping on dissident family.

Berlin Poplars

Recommended by Lydia - Story with atmosphere - story of rural family in a piggery.

Book Recommendations: Josephine 10 August 2011

"Scandinavian Crime"
Henning Mankell: The Kurt Wallander series
Jo Nesbo: Harry Hole series

Interesting crime fiction with commentary on Scandinavian society.