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30/05/2010

Mariella Frostrup talks to the bestselling writer Bill Bryson about his latest book, At 成人快手, his history of domestic life, inspired by his Norfolk home, a rectory built in 1851.

Mariella Frostrup's guests include the bestselling writer Bill Bryson. He talks about his latest book At 成人快手, in which he takes his readers on a tour of the Norfolk rectory where he lives with his family - and uses this as the starting point for a wide-ranging history of domestic life. An eclectic and highly personal tour of the past, the tour of the rectory's passage takes us to from the Eiffel Tower to Thomas Edison, who not only aspired to fill out homes with light, but also with furniture made entirely out of concrete. Whilst the kitchen becomes the location for an exploration of history of the spice trail and in the bedroom we encounter sex and death. Novelist Margaret Drabble celebrates the centenary since the publication of the first in Arnold Bennet's Clayhanger trilogy - a neglected classic set in Arnold Bennet's own birth place, the Potteries. And the sport that has become an art - how boxing prose packs a punch. How and why writers have written about boxing since 成人快手r's The Iliad with award winning writer Thomas Hauser whose latest novel fictionalises a nail biting championship fight.
Producer: Hilary Dunn.

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30 minutes

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Thu 3 Jun 2010 16:00

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  • BILL BRYSON

    Mariella Frostrup talks to Bill Bryson about At 成人快手, his short history of domestic life.

    Duration: 07:58

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  • Sun 30 May 2010 16:00
  • Thu 3 Jun 2010 16:00

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