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Synopsis
From Nobel laureates to debut novelists, international translations to investigative journalism, each themed issue of Granta turns the attention of the worlds best writers on to one aspect of the way we live now. Granta does not have a political or literary manifesto, but it does have a belief in the power and urgency of the story and its supreme ability to describe, illuminate and make real. Our podcasts bring you readings & in depth discussions with highly acclaimed authors & rising stars from the quarterly magazine of new writing.
Episodes
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Peter Stamm: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 33
19/07/2012 Duration: 26minPete Stamm reads from his novel Seven Years and discusses imagining his characters as buildings and whether people, in life and in his fiction, can change.
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Jo Shapcott & George Szirtes: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 32
13/07/2012 Duration: 42minPoets Jo Shapcott and George Szirtes on their poems inspired by Titian's interpetations of Ovid.
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Sam Byers: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 31
29/06/2012 Duration: 44minSam Byers talks about being introduced in Granta 119: Britain, turning office life into fiction and writing women.
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Rachel Seiffert: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 30
15/06/2012 Duration: 27minRachel Seiffert talks to Yuka Igarashi about her new fiction in the Britain issue.
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Mark Haddon: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 29
18/05/2012 Duration: 40minMark Haddon, author of 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time' talks about his latest novel, 'The Red House' and his story in Granta 119: Britain, 'The Gun'.
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Cynan Jones: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 28
08/05/2012 Duration: 31minCynan Jones on writing about adolesence, what we can learn from animals and why he doesn't want to be seen as a Welsh writer.
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Mo Yan: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 27
19/04/2012 Duration: 20minMo Yan talks to John Freeman at the London Book Fair about writing strong women and avoiding censorship.
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Andrés Neuman: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 26
05/04/2012 Duration: 57minAndres Neuman reads from his novel The Traveller of the Century and discusses translation, writing nineteenth century characters who smell and have sex and using a post modern aesthetic to tell an epic love story.
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Jeanette Winterson: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 25
22/03/2012 Duration: 28minJeanette Winterson reads from her new memoir, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal, and her story 'All I Know About Gertrude Stein' from Granta 115: The F Word. She also talks to Saskia Vogel about the line between truth and fiction and the pleasures of Twitter.
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John Barth: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 24
02/03/2012 Duration: 47minLive recording of John Barth reading his essay 'The End?' from Exit Strategies and discussing his career, discovering Tristram Shandy, what happened to postmodernism and ways of encouraging the muse to pay a visit.
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Jon McGregor: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 23
20/01/2012 Duration: 37minJon McGregor talks about reworking his first published story ‘What the Sky Sees’ from the female perspective and reads from both the original and updated version, ‘In Winter the Sky’.
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Don DeLillo & Paul Auster: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 22
01/12/2011 Duration: 44minDon DeLillo and Paul Auster read from their work in Granta 117: Horror and discuss writing about 'impoverished characters' and living and writing about New York.
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Binyavanga Wainaina: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 21
17/11/2011 Duration: 28minBinyavanga Wainaina talks to Ellah Allfrey about his memoir 'One Day I Will Write About This Place', managing the expectations of an African readership and what to do with a negative review.
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Will Self & Mark Doty: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 20
04/11/2011 Duration: 59minA recording from the London launch of Granta 117: Horror, featuring readings from contributors Mark Doty and Will Self; their discussion with Granta publisher Sigrid Rausing and the questions and answers with the audience at Foyles bookshop.
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Robert Coover: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 19
18/10/2011 Duration: 42minRobert Coover reads his story ‘Vampire’ (available now on granta.com) and talks to Ted Hodgkinson about the intersection of myth and the modern world.
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Lavinia Greenlaw: The Granta Podcast, Episode 18
02/08/2011 Duration: 28minLavinia Greenlaw: The Granta Podcast, Episode 18 by Granta Magazine
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Philip Oltermann: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 12
16/06/2011 Duration: 23minPhilip Oltermann spoke to Ollie Brock for the Granta Podcast about English bathrooms and German car engines, and how his experience as an outsider became the nexus of his forthcoming book.
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Elizabeth McCracken: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 2
06/08/2010 Duration: 17minThis week John Freeman spoke to Best Young American Novelist Elizabeth McCracken about her works-in-progress, a novel that broke up into six short stories, and her contribution to Granta’s latest issue, ‘Going Back’ – a story called ‘Property’.