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Open Book Clips

  1. Paterson Joseph on the incredible life of Charles Ignatius Sancho, the first black Briton to vote

    Duration: 11:08

  2. The 2022 Woman's Prize winner, Ruth Ozeki

    Duration: 05:31

  3. Richard Beard on time: Fictional journeys in the future tense

    Duration: 03:39

  4. Richard Beard on time: The power of the present tense

    Duration: 03:41

  5. Richard Beard on time: How writers explore the past tense

    Duration: 03:43

  6. Richard Beard on writing: How social media has helped deformat fiction

    Duration: 03:55

  7. Richard Beard on writing: Exploring the power of punctuation

    Duration: 03:42

  8. Richard Beard on writing: The look of a book

    Duration: 03:49

  9. Richard Beard on writing: Why is most writing written in the third person?

    Duration: 03:55

  10. Richard Beard on writing: The second person 'you' in fiction writing

    Duration: 04:21

  11. Richard Beard on writing: The 'i' viewpoint of the first person

    Duration: 03:59

  12. Hear an extended version of Open Book at the London Literature Festival

    Duration: 49:23

  13. Open Book's Green Reading List with Amitav Ghosh and Nina Mingya Powles

    Duration: 09:59

  14. A Literary Postcard from Sri Lanka

    Duration: 03:37

  15. Damon Galgut - Extended Interview

    Duration: 27:10

  16. "The joke I used to say to myself was that I was trying to do for the actor what Melville did for the whaler"

    Duration: 19:18

  17. "Few Australians still cling to the belief that climate change isn’t real. Yet in realist fiction, it seldom s..."

    Duration: 09:40

  18. "Charles Dickens makes language feel physical, like you can touch it"

    Duration: 16:41

  19. An introduction to ... A Christmas Carol

    Duration: 05:44

  20. An introduction to ... Pride and Prejudice

    Duration: 06:07

  21. An introduction to ... Kidnapped

    Duration: 04:56

  22. An introduction to ... Jane Eyre

    Duration: 05:31

  23. BBC Introductions - Radio 4's syllabus guide to.... Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

    Duration: 05:18

  24. For Whom The Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway - A Close Reading

    Duration: 05:24

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