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Justin Cartwright, Mr Hudson and the Library, and Unusual Typography

Mariella Frostrup is joined by critically acclaimed writer Justin Cartwright whose new novel is set during the Second World War, and focuses on the 1944 plot to assassinate Hitler.

Justin Cartwright
Justin Cartwright's life long fascination with philosopher Isaiah Berlin has led him to write a novel about Berlin's friendship with Adam von Trott, one of the German aristocrats involved in the plot to kill Hitler. He talks to Mariella about how he used the known facts to create his fictional version.

Get It Loud In Libraries
The Get It Loud in Libraries project invites up and coming bands to shatter the usual peace of libraries by performing in them. Mariella is joined by Stewart Parsons from Lancaster Library - who's behind the scheme, and Ben Hudson, lead singer of Mr Hudson and the Library who have recently completely a library tour.

Unusual Typography
Books for children use text and typography in a variety of imaginative ways; so why do adult novels traditionally confine themselves to rows and rows of text? Open Book talks to Steven Hall, author of The Raw Shark Texts, who's challenging that convention - his book includes blank pages and pictures of sharks drawn using the words themselves. Designer Zoe Sadokierski and design critic Rick Poynor reveal that he's not the only writer experimenting with unusual typographical effects, nor is the phenomenon is as recent as we might think.

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30 minutes

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  • Sun 11 Feb 2007 16:00
  • Thu 15 Feb 2007 16:00

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