RCL Authors make Really Good Radio

As an agent I've never before had the delightful experience of several of my authors appearing on my favourite BBC radio programmes in a two-month period (with wonderful listening that I would be a fan of even if I wasn't their agent!) 

On 23rd June Olivia Laing was the guest on BBC Radio 3's Private Passions, talking through their musical influences. I have worked with Olivia for a long time now — over ten years — but I learnt new things about their life and work from this programme. I knew that music was a huge driver of Olivia’s creativity, but I didn't know, for example, that they write to music. And there were some wonderful musical discoveries for me here, like William Basinksi's 'Disintegration Loops'. 

Alice Albinia's The Britannias: And The Islands of Women was published in paperback yesterday (4th July) and, to mark the day, Sara Mohr-Pietsch chose some Britannias-inspired music for BBC Radio 3's Night Tracks. You can find it 1:03:46.

And then all of this week and next there is the treat of listening to Ferdia Lennon's Glorious Exploits being read as Radio 4's Book at Bedtime by Jonathan Forbes. Forbes reads the book very intelligently and sensitively, capturing the Dublin accents of the Syracusians and the 'received pronunciation' of the Athenians. Although I thought I knew Ferdia's novel inside out, I have been moved and entertained all over again by it, hearing it read aloud like this. 

Happy listening, and happy new government day to the UK!

— Rebecca