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The Book On One
Monday to Friday, 11.10pm
Monday 13 to Friday 17 May
'The Boat' by Nam Le
The book is the short story collection ‘The Boat’ by Nam Le.
Over the course of the week, Gary Murphy reads the opening story - ‘Love and Honor and Pity and Pride and Compassion and Sacrifice’ – in which a Vietnamese-born Australian writer studying in America receives a visit from his father.
'The Boat' by Nam Le is published by Canongate.
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Also currently available for playback:
'Dark Lies The Island' by Kevin Barry, read by the author, 6 to 10 May
'The China Factory' by Mary Costello, read by Caitríona Ní Mhurchú, 29 April to 3 May
Some episodes of ‘Strumpet City’ by James Plunkett, read by Barry McGovern, broadcast 1 to 26 April
and
3 to 28 September 2012: 'Hard Times' by Charles Dickens, read by Conor Farrington.
Click on 3 September in the Programme Archive.
11 to 15 February 2013: 'Pride and Prejudice' by Jane Austen, read by Karen Ardiff.
Click on 11 February in the Programme Archive.
About The Show
The Book on One is a celebration of writing from all over the world, with five 15-minute excerpts from a single book broadcast each week.
You can listen back to the past four weeks of The Book on One using the Listen link above.
Producer: Siobhán Mannion.
