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Reading Europe

Five European writers visit a favourite bookshop to explore how issues preoccupying their societies are being reflected by contemporary novelists.

Radio 4,5 episodes

Episodes

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Elif Shafak
Elif Shafak visits an Istanbul bookshop to see if modern Turkey is present on its shelves.
15 mins02 Oct 2015
Abdelkader Benali
The Moroccan-Dutch writer Abdelkader Benali on bookshops as a source of refuge.
15 mins02 Oct 2015
Alba Arikha
The Franco-American writer on immigration and an identity crisis in French fiction.
15 mins01 Oct 2015
Dorthe Nors
Dorthe Nors asks if Danish fiction reflects the lives of those living outside Copenhagen.
15 mins01 Oct 2015
David Wagner
David Wagner asks whether German literature still shows any signs of an east-west divide.
15 mins30 Sep 2015