Second Tuesday of every month at 1:30 pm during The Mix Three local writers choose and discuss a favorite read in our monthly on-air book club with Pete Forster. A discussion with Daniela I. Norris, Susan Jane Gilman and Richard H. Weber. Bookmark podcast feed Second Tuesday of every month at 1:30 pm during The Mix Three local writers choose and discuss a favorite read in our monthly on-air book club with Pete Forster. A discussion with Daniela I. Norris, Susan Jane Gilman and Richard H. Weber. Bookmark podcast feed WRS WRS web@wrs.ch en Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:30:07 UT Tue, 08 Jan 2008 13:00:54 GMT Big Medium 2.0.8 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://worldradio.ch/wrs/programmes/bookmark/index.shtml (C) WRS 2009 News & Politics no Short stories are the order of the day. Pete Forster and the Bookmark panel turn the pages of some new collections that will take you to Kashmir and back on your lunch break—it won’t always be smooth riding though. Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Tower The Emigrants by W.G. Sebald In the Valley of Mist: Kashmir’s Long War—One Family’s Extraordinary Story by Justine Hardy   Tue, 13 Jul 2010 13:38:26 GMT http://worldradio.ch/wrs/programmes/bookmark/bookmark-hold-on-tight-for-a-off-road-ride-through.shtml?19921 79fb7a047369e85e0d59f47d8906b200-9921 Programmes/Bookmark Daily Shows/The Mix Pete Forster and the Bookmark panel are dazzled by the memoirs of a war correspondent, less than thrilled by the memoir of a New York dominatrix and intrigued by a contemporary murder mystery: Breaking News by Martin Fletcher Whip Smart by Melissa Febos The Fourth Assassin by Matt Rees Tue, 11 May 2010 12:00:01 GMT http://worldradio.ch/wrs/programmes/bookmark/bookmark-may-2010-edition.shtml?19011 79fb7a047369e85e0d59f47d8906b200-9011 Programmes/Bookmark Daily Shows/The Mix Our regular panel discusses three very different stories with the common theme of displacement and exile: Black Mamba Boy by Nadifa Mohamed Scum of the Earth by Arthur Koestler Brooklyn by Colm Toibin   Tue, 13 Apr 2010 12:53:08 GMT http://worldradio.ch/wrs/programmes/bookmark/bookmark-april-2010-edition.shtml?18635 79fb7a047369e85e0d59f47d8906b200-8635 Programmes/Bookmark Daily Shows/The Mix Pete Forster and the Bookmark panel discuss: I.O.U.: Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay by John Lanchester The Invention of Everything Else by Samantha Hunt Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:15:00 GMT http://worldradio.ch/wrs/programmes/bookmark/bookmark-march-2010-edition.shtml?18258 79fb7a047369e85e0d59f47d8906b200-8258 Programmes/Bookmark Daily Shows/The Mix Pete Forster and the Bookmark panel discuss: The Faith Instinct: How Religion Evolved & Why It Endures by Nicholas Wade  Telling Tales: A History of Literary Hoaxes by Melissa Katsoulis A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:21:29 GMT http://worldradio.ch/wrs/programmes/bookmark/bookmark-february-2010-edition.shtml?17966 79fb7a047369e85e0d59f47d8906b200-7966 Programmes/Bookmark Daily Shows/The Mix Pete Forster and the Bookmark panel discuss: An Expensive Education by Nick McDonell The Dogs and the Wolves by Irene Nemirovsky Zeitoun by Dave Eggers Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:32:34 GMT http://worldradio.ch/wrs/programmes/bookmark/bookmark-january-2010-edition.shtml?17452 79fb7a047369e85e0d59f47d8906b200-7452 Programmes/Bookmark Daily Shows/The Mix Pete Forster and the panel choose light-hearted books for travelling over the Christmas period. Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:00:00 GMT http://worldradio.ch/wrs/programmes/bookmark/bookmark-december-edition-2.shtml?17064 79fb7a047369e85e0d59f47d8906b200-7064 Programmes/Bookmark Programmes/Speed Read Pete Forster and the team leaf through this month’s selections: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:18:06 GMT http://worldradio.ch/wrs/programmes/bookmark/bookmark-november-edition-2.shtml?16680 79fb7a047369e85e0d59f47d8906b200-6680 Programmes/Bookmark October’s selction of books all have something in common with the show itself: they’re all great works of high art with single-world titles. Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:00:00 GMT http://worldradio.ch/wrs/programmes/bookmark/bookmark-top-one-word-titles.shtml?16395 79fb7a047369e85e0d59f47d8906b200-6395 Programmes/Bookmark Pete Forster does his best to fill Richard Weber’s shoes alongside Daniela I. Norris and Susan Jane Gilman as they discuss this month’s picks: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:52:14 GMT http://worldradio.ch/wrs/programmes/bookmark/bookmark-july-edition-2.shtml?14973 79fb7a047369e85e0d59f47d8906b200-4973 Programmes/Bookmark Pete Forster and his regular band of wordsmiths explore books from small publishers, namely Michel Faber’s The Fire Gospel, Josie Henley-Einion’s Silence and Martin Booth’s Islands of Silence. Tue, 09 Jun 2009 12:29:28 GMT http://worldradio.ch/wrs/programmes/bookmark/bookmark-june-edition.shtml?14275 79fb7a047369e85e0d59f47d8906b200-4275 Programmes/Bookmark This week’s book selections share a connection with Switzerland’s famously romantic neighbour to the south, Italy. On the coffee-table this week are Shirley Hazzard’s Ancient Shore, Lily Tuck’s Woman of Rome: A Life of Elsa Morante and The Dark Heart of Italy by Tobias Jones. Tue, 12 May 2009 13:00:00 GMT http://worldradio.ch/wrs/programmes/bookmark/bookmark-may-edition-2.shtml?13664 79fb7a047369e85e0d59f47d8906b200-3664 Daily Shows/The Mix Programmes/Bookmark In this DIY-themed programme, the group discuss books that begin with “How To”:  How To Cook a Wolf by Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher, Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose, and the ever important How To Talk About Books You Haven’t Read by Pierre Bayard. Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:39:24 GMT http://worldradio.ch/wrs/programmes/bookmark/bookmark-april-edition.shtml?13103 79fb7a047369e85e0d59f47d8906b200-3103 Programmes/Bookmark A biography-themed edition of the programme sees the group discuss Somebody: The Reckless Life and Remarkable Career of Marlon Brando by Stefan Kanfer, Wonderful Tonight: George Harrison, Eric Clapton, and Me by Pattie Boyd as told to Penny Junor and Wangari Maathai’s autobiography Unbowed. Tue, 10 Mar 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://worldradio.ch/wrs/programmes/bookmark/bookmark-march-edition.shtml?12839 79fb7a047369e85e0d59f47d8906b200-2839 Programmes/Bookmark The panel this week give Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns a mixed reception in a discussion that also focuses on the true story Three Cups of Tea co-authored by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin, and Julian Barnes’ study of mortality, Nothing to be Frightened Of. Tue, 10 Feb 2009 11:00:00 GMT http://worldradio.ch/wrs/programmes/bookmark/bookmark-february-edition.shtml?12621 79fb7a047369e85e0d59f47d8906b200-2621 Programmes/Bookmark