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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.
02 Oct 2015,15 mins
Abdelkader Benali
The Moroccan-Dutch writer Abdelkader Benali on bookshops as a source of refuge.
02 Oct 2015,15 mins
Alba Arikha
The Franco-American writer on immigration and an identity crisis in French fiction.
01 Oct 2015,15 mins
Dorthe Nors
Dorthe Nors asks if Danish fiction reflects the lives of those living outside Copenhagen.
01 Oct 2015,15 mins
David Wagner
David Wagner asks whether German literature still shows any signs of an east-west divide.
30 Sep 2015,15 mins