Monday 23rd December
Monday 23rd December
The One in Eoin Colfers Shed
Wexford author Eoin Colfer has sold over 25million copies of his books, including his popular Artemis Fowl series. Rick O’Shea went to visit him in his creative hub – the shed at the end of his garden.
Friday 20th December
The One with Eoin Colfer, Jan Carson, Baz Ashmawy and Eilish O’Carroll
Rick O’Shea visits Eoin Colfer him in his creative hub – the shed at the end of his garden. Jan Carson, winner of the EU Prize for Literature is interviewed by the Book Paper Scissors Book Club in Belfast. We find out what the one book is that Baz Ashmawy and Eilish O’Carroll would recommend.
Friday 13th December
The One with Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout and Eithne Shortall
Rick O'Shea chats to Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout on the return of Olive Kitteridge, and a lucky book club gets to quiz Eithne Shortall on her novel Three Little Truths.
Sunday 8th December
The One with Blindboy, Bernadine Evaristo and John Boyne
Rick O’Shea chats to Blindboy Boatclub. 2019 Booker Prize co-winner Bernadine Evaristo reads from her prize-winning novel. John Boyne wrestles with the questions put to him by the members of Hughie’s Bar Bookclub in Donegal on his novel The Hearts Invisible Furies. The Book Show Sun 8th December 19.00 RTÉ Radio 1 rte.ie/culture bookshow@rte.ie
Wednesday 4th December
Trailer: The Book Show
An all-new show that's all about books from the man with the biggest book club in Ireland, Rick O'Shea! The first episode of the new series will be available on Friday 6th December 2019.
Sunday 2nd December
The Book Show, Sunday 2nd December
This week Eithne Shortall talks to authors about love and fiction. She's joined by Hazel Gaynor, David Park and Abby Green.
Sunday 25th November
The Book Show, Sunday 25th November
This week Louise O’Neill (Asking For It, Almost Love) looks at the world of commercial women’s fiction.
Sunday 18th November
The Book Show, Sunday 18th November
On this week’s Book Show Sara Baume (Spill Simmer Falter Wither, A Line Made By Walking) looks at artists’ books.
Sunday 4th November
The Book Show, Sunday 4th November
On this week’s Book Show Mike McCormack (Solar Bones) presents an episode about Irish science fiction.
Sunday 28th October
The Book Show, Sunday 28th October
On this week’s Book Show we look back at Neil Jordan’s career as a fiction writer.
Sunday 21st October
The Book Show, Sunday 22nd October
On this week’s Book Show Nuala O’Connor (Becoming Belle, Miss Emily) takes a look at historical fiction.
Sunday 14th October
The Book Show, Sunday 14th October
This week the Book Show travels to Belfast to hear how writers there are reworking old tales, discovering new styles and travelling beyond established binaries.
Sunday 7th October
The Book Show, Sunday 7th October
Kit de Waal invites fellow author Donal Ryan into her home to talk about the craft of writing and to hear him read some of his work.
Sunday 30th September
The Book Show, Sunday 30th September
John Connell re-reads James Joyce's coming-of-age novel, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and he hears how it has been adapted for this year's Dublin Theatre Festival.
Sunday 23rd September
The Book Show Sunday 23rd September
This week on The Book Show Lisa McInerney is in Cork to meet writers there and to hear how the city is featured in their work.
Sunday 16th September
The Book Show, Sunday 16th September
This week The Book Show returns with writers asking the questions: This week Belinda McKeon presents a programme on Writing in the Age of Trump.
Sunday 22nd April
The Book Show, Sunday 22nd April
Liz Nugent meets singer Neil Hannon whose song A Lady of A Certain Age inspired Liz's new book Skin Deep. Liz will also speak to other crime writers about their writing process.
Sunday 15th April
The Book Show, Sunday 16th April
Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne was first published in 1759 and was an instant bestseller. Regan Hutchins discusses why its one of his favourite books.
Sunday 8th April
The Book Show, Sunday 8th April
Eoin Colfer the creator of Artemis Fowl celebrates the fun and diversity of children's books. He's joined by Liz Pichon (Tom Gates) and Shane Hegarty (Darkmouth).
Sunday 1st April
The Book Show Sunday 1st April
Eimear McBride is the first Beckett Creative Fellow at the Beckett Archive in the University of Reading. She visits the archive to explore Samuel Beckett's Stirrings Still.
Sunday 25th March
The Book Show, Sunday 25th March
This week on Sunday 25th March, John Boyne sits in the chair.
Saturday 4th November
The Book Show, 4th November 2017
This week on The Book Show Sinéad Gleeson looks at the literature of the Russian Revolution in 1917.
Saturday 28th October
The Book Show, Saturday 28th October
Anne Enright, Paul Howard, Lisa McInerney & Donal Ryan join Sinead Gleeson on stage for our extended #DearCharacter show in Smock Alley.
Saturday 14th October
The Book Show, Saturday 14th October
This week on The Book Show we look at a troubled teenage friendship with Julie Buntin author of Marlena. And we hear about the LA writer John Fante.
Saturday 7th October
The Book Show, Saturday 7th October
This week on The Book Show, Sinéad Gleeson speaks to the UK poet Hollie McNish about her new collection Plum.
Saturday 30th September
The Book Show, Saturday 30th September
This week Sinéad Gleeson speaks to Natasha Pulley about The Bedlam Sticks - her historical novel about the dangerous hunt for quinine in 19th century Peru.
Saturday 23rd September
The Book Show, Saturday 23rd September
This week Sinéad talks to Sally Rooney about her critically acclaimed debut novel Conversations With Friends.
Saturday 9th September
The Book Show, Saturday 9th September
The Book Show returns to air and this week we speak to Maggie O'Farrell about her gripping memoir 'I Am I Am I Am: 17 Brushes With Death.
Monday 17th July
Saturday 13th May
The Book Show, Saturday 13th May
This week Sinéad Gleeson hears about Hopdance, the autobiographical novel by playwright Stewart Parker. She speaks to Charlie Fox about monsters, freaks and beasts.
Saturday 6th May
The Book Show, Saturday 6th May
Sinéad Gleeson speaks to Helen Simpson about ageing and fiction and to Lennie Goodings about Virago books. We also hear from Rory Gleeson about his debut novel, Rockadoon Shore.
Saturday 29th April
Saturday 22nd April
The Book Show, Saturday 22nd April
In this special hour long episode Sinéad Gleeson talks to John Boyne and to composer Max Richter. And she looks at the life and writing of Jean Rhys.
Saturday 4th March
Saturday 10th December
The Book Show, Saturday 10th December
Sebastian Barry tells us about Days without End and life for two brothers-in-arms in the US army in the 1850s and Horatio Clare talks the sea, cargo and ships in Liverpool.
Saturday 3rd December
The Book Show, Saturday 3rd December
Claire Harman tells us about Charlotte Bronte 200 years after her birth, Oisin Fagan tells us about his novel Hostages and Sim Van Booy talks about his new novel Father's Day.
Saturday 5th November
The Book Show, Saturday 5th November
We look ahead to the Dublin Book Festival by celebrating the work of Irish writer Maeve Kelly and speak to Mia Gallagher about her new book Beautiful Pictures of the Lost Homeland.
Saturday 29th October
The Book Show, Saturday 29th October
Sinéad talks to write Lucy Caldwell, playwright Peter Dunne & writer iO Tillett Wright.
Saturday 22nd October
The Book Show, Saturday 22nd October
This week on The Book Show; Raymond Chandler's Irish connection and we speak to Paul Beatty the Booker Prize nominated author of the Sellout.
Saturday 15th October
The Book Show, Saturday 15th October
On this week's show Sara Taylor on her novel The Lauras and Maggie O'Farrell on her novel This Must Be the Place.
Saturday 8th October
Saturday 1st October
The Book Show, Saturday 1st October
Sinéad talks to author Erica Jong, and the Book Show explores how the city of New Orleans influenced some great writer of the 19th & 20th century.
Saturday 17th September
Saturday 10th September
The Book Show, Saturday 10th September
Hear about the stage version of The Aneid for the Tiger Dublin Fringe Festival, and Sinéad meets the editors of a new literary journal in Belfast.
Saturday 27th August
The Book Show, Saturday 27th August
We come to you from the Edinburgh Book Festival with special guests Ian Rankin and Val McDermid to talk about Scottish Crime writing.
Saturday 14th May
Saturday 7th May
Saturday 30th April
Saturday 23rd April
Saturday 9th April
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