# Ian Sansom

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Open Book: Dawn French, bibliomania and Britain re-imagined

Dawn French talks about her latest novel Oh Dear Silvia. Authors CJ Sansom and Owen Sheers look at why the Second World War era appeals to the writer's imagination. And Ian Sansom discusses Paper: An Elegy, his book exploring our relationship with paper.

Ian Sansom: September 1, 1939, from the archives

The Book Club has taken a short summer break and will return in September. Until then, and ahead of the 85th anniversary of the start of World War Two, here’s an episode from the archives with the author Ian Sansom. Recorded ahead of the 80th anniversary in 2019, Sam Leith talks to Ian about Septem…

Book Club: Ian Sansom, from the archives

The Book Club has taken a short summer break and will return in September. Until then, and ahead of the 85th anniversary of the start of World War Two, here’s an episode from the archives with the author Ian Sansom. Recorded ahead of the 80th anniversary in 2019, Sam Leith talks to Ian about Septem…

The History of Mr Polly

Ian Sansom, sitting in for John Yorke, takes a look at The History of Mr Polly, the satirical novel by HG Wells. Published in 1910, it tells a story of one man’s comic, sometimes poignant struggle to find his place in the world. Mr Polly is an ordinary man, with an irrepressible longing for the ex…

London Belongs to Me

Ian Sansom celebrates the evocative portrait of London on the brink of war that Norman Collins paints in his 1945 novel London Belongs to Me. The book centres around the lives of the inhabitants of 10 Dulcimer Street, a down-at-heel south London boarding house, and spans the two years from December…

Joy in the Morning

Ian Sansom, sitting in for John Yorke, takes a look at Joy In the Morning, the 44th Jeeves and Wooster novel by PG Wodehouse. Published in 1946, it revolves around Bertie Wooster’s attempts to avoid a series of social and romantic calamities. The omniscient Jeeves, of course, remains the great calm…

Economies of Scale

This week, Scarlett Baron puzzles over an attempt to cut Joyce down to size; and Ian Sansom on the sobering realities of balancing the books if you want to be an artist. 'A Shorter Ulysses', by James Joyce and Anthony Burgess 'Making Art and Making a Living: Adventures in funding a creative life', …

Ep. 3: A Is For Angst

I once again risk heat stroke by sitting under a duvet during a heatwave to record this week’s episode. This week we look at a second piece of writing as part of my dissertation, its an encyclopedia of sorts, all about growing up and becoming an adult and the 90’s and Nintendos and Cantona and ca…

Ep. 5: The Reading List

Breaking out from under the duvet, this time recording in a French kitchen at the foot of Mont Blanc. A different format this week, the Pebble Inspector Podcast looks back at the last few months of reading during the Creative Writing & Literature Studies Master’s course at Lancaster University. …

Writers on Walks: A BBC Radio 3 Collection Audiobook by Ross Raisin

Listen to full audiobook for free : https://litupbook.com/free Title: Writers on Walks: A BBC Radio 3 CollectionSubtitle: 30 Reflections from Exploring on FootCategories: TourismAuthor: Ross RaisinNarrator: VariousPublisher: BBC AudioRelease date: 03-23-2023Language: EnglishSummary:22 writers talk …