The Book Show
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The Book Show is an Australian ABC radio
program for the discussion of everything relating to the written word. It is broadcast live around Australia on Radio National
with a daily weekday morning show which is then replayed nightly and also has a Sunday evening show. The show is hosted by Ramona Koval
and features a host of experts from various literary fields. The Book Show was created in 2006 and is the world's only daily radio program devoted to books, writing and publishing. The show has featured interviews such as with Salman Rushdie and Ursula K. Le Guin
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly referred to as "the ABC" , is Australia's national public broadcaster...
program for the discussion of everything relating to the written word. It is broadcast live around Australia on Radio National
Radio National
ABC Radio National is an Australia-wide non-commercial radio network run by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.Radio National broadcasts national programming in areas that include news and current affairs, the arts, social issues, science, drama and comedy...
with a daily weekday morning show which is then replayed nightly and also has a Sunday evening show. The show is hosted by Ramona Koval
Ramona Koval
Ramona Koval is an Australian broadcaster, writer and journalist.Her parents were Yiddish-speaking survivors of the Holocaust who arrived in Melbourne from Poland in 1950....
and features a host of experts from various literary fields. The Book Show was created in 2006 and is the world's only daily radio program devoted to books, writing and publishing. The show has featured interviews such as with Salman Rushdie and Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin is an American author. She has written novels, poetry, children's books, essays, and short stories, notably in fantasy and science fiction...
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Format
The daily program explores the many worlds in which readers and writers, publishers and booksellers, playwrights and lyricists, bloggers and journalists, book illustrators and type designers are all working with words and the medium of language.Presenter and Producers
Hosted by Ramona Koval who won the Order of Australia Media Award in 1995. She is well known for her extended and in-depth interviews with significant writers and has a long and varied career on radio. The show is produced by Michael Shirrefs and Sarah L'Estrange. The Executive Producer is Liz Gray.Contributor Panel
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