Date: 1998-05-31
Name(s): Deshpande, Shashi, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Reinventing India: Writing Since Independence - a series that explores the sub-continent through its novelists, poets, and critics. Series episode 4: From Bangalore in the south, Shashi Deshpande - a surprising feminist voice with a refreshing vision.
Date: 1998-06-07
Name(s): Hariharan, Githa, 1954-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Verma, Nirmal, 1929-2005, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Reinventing India: Writing Since Independence - a series that explores the sub-continent through its novelists, poets, and critics. Series pt. 5: with Commonwealth Prize winner Gita Hariharan and Nirmal Verma - a master of Hindi short fiction and a thoughtful analyst of Indian philosophy.
Date: 1998-06-14
Name(s): Khushwant Singh, 1915-2014, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Reinventing India: Writing Since Independence - a series that explores the sub-continent through its novelists, poets, and critics. Series episode 6: with a most entertaining and provocative writer, Khushwant Singh. Lawyer, diplomat, parlimentarian, journalist and novelist, at 83 he says he owes it all to Canada.
Date: 1998-06-21
Name(s): Karnad, Girish, 1938-2019, Padmanabhan, Manjula, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Reinventing India: Writing Since Independence - a series that explores the sub-continent through its novelists, poets, and critics. Series pt. 7: From the south, the groundbreaking playwright, director, actor, and filmmaker Girish Karnad. Eleanor also talks with Manjula Padmanabhan - an off-beat dramatist, short story writer, and cartoonist.
Date: 1998-06-28
Name(s): Anantha Murthy, U. R., 1932-2014, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Reinventing India: Writing Since Independence - a series that explores the sub-continent through its novelists, poets, and critics. Series episode 8: with influential writer and scholar U.R. Ananthamurthy. He's best known work, Saṃskāra, portrays the spiritual and social struggle of a decaying Brahmin colony.
Date: 1996-02-04
Name(s): Brodsky, Joseph, 1940-1996, Frank, Joseph, 1918-2013, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Part I: A tribute to the Nobel Prize-winning poet and essayist Joseph Brodsky, who died last Sunday. Part II: Eleanor talks to the biographer of the great 19th century novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
Date: 2007-09-23
Name(s): McIlvanney, William, 1936-2015, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers & Company - Part 2 of the special series "Rewriting History: Scotland's New Century." It's host Eleanor Wachtel in conversation with some of the country's most interesting and adventurous writers, going beyond the sentimentality of tartans and bagpipes for an up-to-date picture of a changing and dynamic society. This week, from Glasgow, William McIlvanney, the originator of the "tartan noir" crime fiction. His honest, autobiographical novels draw on his background as a…
Date: 2007-09-30
Name(s): O'Hagan, Andrew, 1968-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers & Company - Part 3 of the special series "Rewriting History: Scotland's New Century." More from Scotland - Eleanor Wachtel talks with novelist and essayist Andrew O'Hagan. The award-winning author of Be Near Me brings a different perspective to the questions of nationalism, religion, and politics.
Date: 2007-10-07
Name(s): Kay, Jackie, 1961-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers and Company - Part 4 of the special series "Rewriting History: Scotland's New Century." Host Eleanor Wachtel wraps up the special series with a conversation with poet and novelist Jackie Kay. Born in Edinburgh to a Scottish mother and a Nigerian father, Kay was adopted and raised by a white Glasgow couple active in the Communist Party. She looks at Scottish society from a fresh and interesting angle.
Date: 2007-09-16
Name(s): Lochhead, Liz, 1947-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Rankin, Ian, Robertson, James, 1958-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Writers & Company launches a special four-part series, "Rewriting History: Scotland's New Century." Eleanor Wachtel visits Scotland to talk with some of the country's most interesting and adventurous writers about their lives and work. In lively and intimate conversations, she goes beyond the sentimental stereotypes of tartans and bagpipes to get an insightful picture of Scotland today, a region whose citizens have a new sense of themselves. This week: Change is unsettling and exciting -…
Date: 2002-05-26
Name(s): Flanagan, Richard, 1961-, Pearson, Ian, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel speaks with this year's winner of the Commonwealth Book Award - from Tasmania, Richard Flanagan. His prize-winning novel, Gould's Book of Fish, is about a 19th century forger and criminal.
Date: 2021-01-17
Name(s): Greene, Richard, 1961-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Biographer, poet and editor Richard Greene talks to Eleanor Wachtel about his new book and the remarkable life and times of a master storyteller - Graham Greene.
Date: 2009-10-25
Name(s): Holmes, Richard, 1945-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers & Company - The Age of Wonder. Eleanor Wachtel talks to award-winning biographer, Richard Holmes about how the Romantic generation discovered the beauty and terror of science. The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science is published by HarperCollins.
Date: 2017-12-03
Name(s): Holmes, Richard, 1945-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Richard Holmes - one of Britain's leading literary biographers - writes passionately about Romantic era greats, such as Shelley, Coleridge, Keats and Blake. In this episode of Writers & Company, Holmes talks to Eleanor Wachtel about his new book, This Long Pursuit: Reflections of a Romantic Biographer.
Date: 2013-09-08
Name(s): Sennett, Richard, 1943-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers & Company - social analyst and writer Richard Sennett. An expert on cities and culture, his latest book is called Together: The Rituals, Pleasures, and Politics of Cooperation.
