1antimuzak
Friday 2nd December 2022 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Poetry Book Club with Douglas Dunn.
Ian McMillan and the Poetry Book Club audience are joined by Douglas Dunn to discuss his debut collection Terry Street and his latest, The Noise of a Fly.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Poetry Book Club with Douglas Dunn.
Ian McMillan and the Poetry Book Club audience are joined by Douglas Dunn to discuss his debut collection Terry Street and his latest, The Noise of a Fly.
2antimuzak
Friday 6th January 2023 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
The Verb with Hilary Mantel.
Ian McMillan presents an extended interview with the prize-winning novelist Hilary Mantel who died last year. The programme looks at her life in writing, from her struggle to publish the first book she wrote, the historical epic A Place of Greater Safety to the phenomenal success of her Thomas Cromwell books, Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies, both of which won the Booker Prize.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
The Verb with Hilary Mantel.
Ian McMillan presents an extended interview with the prize-winning novelist Hilary Mantel who died last year. The programme looks at her life in writing, from her struggle to publish the first book she wrote, the historical epic A Place of Greater Safety to the phenomenal success of her Thomas Cromwell books, Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies, both of which won the Booker Prize.
3antimuzak
Friday 13th January 2023 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Breath.
Ian McMillan and guests explore how breath shapes and moulds the poetic line and stanza, how it can breathe life into a story and how breathing itself can be a kind of narrative. Ian is joined by the poet Stephen Watts whose poems pulse and flow with the rhythm of breath, novelist Emma Carroll whose book The Tale of Truthwater Lake breathes life into the future and revives the past, James Nestor a journalist and Free diver who teaches us how to survive without breathing and poet Daisy Lafarge whose collection Life Without Air was was shortlisted for the TS Eliot prize.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Breath.
Ian McMillan and guests explore how breath shapes and moulds the poetic line and stanza, how it can breathe life into a story and how breathing itself can be a kind of narrative. Ian is joined by the poet Stephen Watts whose poems pulse and flow with the rhythm of breath, novelist Emma Carroll whose book The Tale of Truthwater Lake breathes life into the future and revives the past, James Nestor a journalist and Free diver who teaches us how to survive without breathing and poet Daisy Lafarge whose collection Life Without Air was was shortlisted for the TS Eliot prize.
4antimuzak
Friday 16th June 2023 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
The Verb at Hay Festival: How to write a Novel.
From blank page to best-seller, how do you write a successful novel? Ian McMillan introduces a masterclass in storytelling with renowned authors Kate Mosse and Philippa Gregory, best known for The Other Boleyn Girl, and Booker prize-winning novelist Douglas Stuart.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
The Verb at Hay Festival: How to write a Novel.
From blank page to best-seller, how do you write a successful novel? Ian McMillan introduces a masterclass in storytelling with renowned authors Kate Mosse and Philippa Gregory, best known for The Other Boleyn Girl, and Booker prize-winning novelist Douglas Stuart.
5antimuzak
Friday 13th October 2023 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Zadie Smith.
Ian McMillan presents an extended interview with Zadie Smith. Her audacious first book White Teeth, written when she was just 24, was one of the most talked about debut novels of all time. Most of Smith's novels take place in North West London, where she grew up, and which she has described as the location of her imagination, and her heart. In her latest novel The Fraud, also set in the area, Smith moves into historical fiction with a story inspired by an extraordinary real life court case.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Zadie Smith.
Ian McMillan presents an extended interview with Zadie Smith. Her audacious first book White Teeth, written when she was just 24, was one of the most talked about debut novels of all time. Most of Smith's novels take place in North West London, where she grew up, and which she has described as the location of her imagination, and her heart. In her latest novel The Fraud, also set in the area, Smith moves into historical fiction with a story inspired by an extraordinary real life court case.
6antimuzak
Friday 10th November 2023 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Shakespeare and the Future.
Ian McMillan celebrates what Shakespeare can tell future generations - about animals, sound, performance and language. With actor Paterson Joseph, grime poet and writer Debris Stevenson, Verb regular Kate Fox and Professor Todd Borlik from the University of Huddersfield.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Shakespeare and the Future.
Ian McMillan celebrates what Shakespeare can tell future generations - about animals, sound, performance and language. With actor Paterson Joseph, grime poet and writer Debris Stevenson, Verb regular Kate Fox and Professor Todd Borlik from the University of Huddersfield.
7antimuzak
Friday 17th November 2023 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Colm Tóibín.
Ian McMillan presents a special extended interview with acclaimed Irish novelist, essayist, playwright and poet Colm Tóibín, the author of 11 novels including Brooklyn, which won the 2009 Costa novel award, and The Magician, winner of the Rathbones Folio Prize as well as two short story collections. Three times shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Tóibín was made the Laureate for Irish Fiction for 2022-2024. In 2022, he published his first collection of poems, Vinegar Hill.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Colm Tóibín.
Ian McMillan presents a special extended interview with acclaimed Irish novelist, essayist, playwright and poet Colm Tóibín, the author of 11 novels including Brooklyn, which won the 2009 Costa novel award, and The Magician, winner of the Rathbones Folio Prize as well as two short story collections. Three times shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Tóibín was made the Laureate for Irish Fiction for 2022-2024. In 2022, he published his first collection of poems, Vinegar Hill.
8antimuzak
Friday 1st December 2023 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Joyce Carol Oates.
Ian McMillan presents a special extended interview with Joyce Carol Oates, one of the most prolific and pre-eminent American writers of the 20th century. Now 85, Oates is the author of 62 novels, 47 short story collections, poetry volumes, plays, essays, and criticism. Her latest book is the unsettling short-story collection 'Zero-Sum'.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Joyce Carol Oates.
Ian McMillan presents a special extended interview with Joyce Carol Oates, one of the most prolific and pre-eminent American writers of the 20th century. Now 85, Oates is the author of 62 novels, 47 short story collections, poetry volumes, plays, essays, and criticism. Her latest book is the unsettling short-story collection 'Zero-Sum'.
9antimuzak
Friday 26th January 2024 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Tessa Hadley.
Ian McMillan presents a special extended interview with writer and novelist Tessa Hadley. Her books are admired for the flowing, thoughtful intensity of her prose, and she is a master of capturing the humanity of domestic lives and the quietly devastating drama of the everyday.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Tessa Hadley.
Ian McMillan presents a special extended interview with writer and novelist Tessa Hadley. Her books are admired for the flowing, thoughtful intensity of her prose, and she is a master of capturing the humanity of domestic lives and the quietly devastating drama of the everyday.
10antimuzak
Friday 15th March 2024 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Zadie Smith.
Ian McMillan presents an extended interview with Zadie Smith. Her audacious first book White Teeth, written when she was just 24, was one of the most talked about debut novels of all time. Most of Smith's novels take place in North West London, where she grew up, and which she has described as the location of her imagination, and her heart. In her latest novel The Fraud, also set in the area, Smith moves into historical fiction with a story inspired by an extraordinary real life court case.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Zadie Smith.
Ian McMillan presents an extended interview with Zadie Smith. Her audacious first book White Teeth, written when she was just 24, was one of the most talked about debut novels of all time. Most of Smith's novels take place in North West London, where she grew up, and which she has described as the location of her imagination, and her heart. In her latest novel The Fraud, also set in the area, Smith moves into historical fiction with a story inspired by an extraordinary real life court case.
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