This week it's our Christmas show and Leigh Chambers and Alex Ruczaj are focusing, appropriately, on writing for children. Our studio guest is award winning children's author, Tony Mitton. His lyric collection, The Red and White Spotted Handkerchief won the Smarties Silver Award in 2000 and his latest book, Wayland The Blacksmith, was recently … [Read more...]
Bookmark 30/11/2013
Leigh Chambers and Alex Ruczaj are talking Manolo Blahniks and Gucci this week with studio guest, Angela Clarke, author of Confessions of a Fashionista, a hilarious expose of the underbelly of the fashion world based on her ten years working in it. We've also got interviews with Gareth Bell-Jones, Curator of Wysing Arts Centre about their new … [Read more...]
Bookmark 16/11/2013
Leigh Chambers and Alex Ruczaj present a fortnightly show featuring Cambridge based writers. … [Read more...]
Bookmark 02/11/2013
Our studio guest is local author, Susan Sellers who talks to us about her latest novel, Given the Choice and her first book, Vanessa and Virginia (which examines artist Vanessa Bell's relationship with her sister, Virginia Woolf). We also have interviews with Diana Reich, Artistic Director at Charleston in East Sussex, home of Vanessa Bell, and we … [Read more...]
Bookmark 19/10/2013
Leigh Chambers and Alex Ruczaj's studio guest is Cambridge resident, Deborah Meyler, whose debut novel The Bookstore, is a modern day love story set in New York. We also have interviews with Cambridge writer, Penny Hancock, whose second novel The Darkening Hour looks set to be as successful as her first, Tideline, chosen as a Richard & Judy … [Read more...]
Bookmark 05/10/2013
Dr Who and Star Trek fans will particularly love this week's Bookmark (Saturday 2-3pm) because our studio guest is Una McCormack. As well as being a Lecturer in Creative Writing at Anglia Ruskin University she's also a fan fiction writer and the author of several Star Trek and Doctor Who novels. We ask her about the process of writing Dr Who and … [Read more...]
Bookmark 21/09/2013
We're talking about other people on this weeks show as we look at biography. Why are we so fascinated by other peoples' lives? Do they cast light on our own or is it just plain nosiness? Our studio guest is Dr Anna Whitelock, historian, author and broadcaster whose first biography, Mary Tudor: England's First Queen was shortlisted for the … [Read more...]