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  1. Book Talk: The Hobbit | Scottish Book Trust

    The final Book Talk podcast of 2012 features a timely discussion of J.R.R Tolkien’s worldwide bestselling favourite The Hobbit, coinciding with the release of the first in Peter Jackson’s series of big-budget film adaptations of the novel.

    Paul Gallagher is joined by Edd McCracken of Book Riot, Hollyrood High School librarian Rachel McCabe and two high school pupils, Juliette and Michael, to get into a wide-ranging discussion of the fantasy classic. With each of their Hobbit experiences being different - some having read it many times since childhood, some just reading it for the first time for this podcast - their reactions offer a great cross-section of opinions!

    http://www.scottishbooktrust.com/podcasts/audio/book-talk-the-hobbit

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  2. Book Talk: Kate Summerscale / Nick Harkaway / Natasha Soobramanien interviews

    This special edition of Book Talk features three interviews recorded on location at Edinburgh International Book Festival last month.

    Kate Summerscale, author of the phenomenally successful The Suspicions of Mr Whicher discusses the results of her success and her new book, another fascinating piece of historical non-fiction, Mrs Robinson’s Disgrace.

    Angelmaker author Nick Harkaway talks about how being the son of John Le Carre meant being raised in ‘a house full of stories’, as well as going into detail about his own fiction writing.

    Lastly, debut novelist Natasha Soobramanien explains her fascination with islands and describes how years of life experience shaped her novel Genie and Paul.

    http://www.scottishbooktrust.com/podcasts/audio/book-talk-kate-summerscale-nick-harkaway-natasha-soobramanien-interviews

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  3. ‘Exploring J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit’: A Reminder To Tolkien Fans Of Their First Love : NPR

    Fans of Middle Earth tend to fall in love with The Hobbit as children, says self-described "Tolkien professor" Corey Olsen. But once they move on to The Lord of the Rings, they never come back. That’s a great shame, he says, so he’s written his own book to honor the classic fantasy novel.

    http://www.npr.org/2012/10/21/163002962/a-reminder-to-tolkien-fans-of-their-first-love

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  4. Thought for Food: Literature and Gastronomy

    Adopting a multidisciplinary approach called gastro-criticism that draws upon anthropology, sociology, semiotics, history, and literary studies, Professor Ronald Tobin, Associate Vice Chancellor, UC Santa Barbara, elucidates the role of food, service, spectacle, diet, ingestion, and digestion in a number of works drawn from a variety of national literatures. He concludes with specific reference to the seventeenth-century French comic dramatist Molière and his preoccupations with sexuality and power, pretense and pretentiousness, trickery and truth, self and society.

    http://uctv.tv/search-details.aspx?showID=16255

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  5. Fintan O’Toole on Flann O’Brien

    Sasha Weiss speaks with Fintan O’Toole, columnist for the Irish Times, about the genius and misfortune of the great Irish novelist Flann O’Brien.

    From http://www.nybooks.com/podcasts/

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  6. The Road from Here to There

    Panel discussion at the LA Times Festival of Books on April 27, 2007 at UCLA, with Kage Baker, Cory Doctorow, John Scalzi and Harry Turtledove.

    From http://www.archive.org/details/ScienceFictionTheRoadFromHereToThereBakerdoctorowscalziturtledove

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  7. Scott McCloud, author of “Understanding Comics” and “Zot!”: Interview on The Sound of Young America

    Scott McCloud is both an accomplished comics creator and critic. His books of comics criticism, "Understanding Comics," "Reinventing Comics" and "Making Comics" are classics of the form, and are standard-issue in hip literature classes around the country. His newest book is a compilation of his 1980s superhero series Zot!. He talks with us about how to read comics and how he incorporated the influences of the comics of other cultures into his own work in the ’80s.

    http://www.maximumfun.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=39346#39346

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  8. To The Best Of Our Knowledge - The Future of Science Fiction

    Space, the final frontier. But is science fiction the final frontier when it comes to being a literature of ideas? In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge, we’ll wax philosophical about science fiction with two of the genre’s greatest writers — George R.R. Martin and Ursula K. Le Guin. And we’ll explore H.P. Lovecraft’s literary philosophy of "Cosmicism."

    http://wpr.org/book/081123a.cfm

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  9. Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary

    An interview with the authors of Ring of Words: Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary, exploring the relationship between J.R.R. Tolkien and Oxford University, where he both studied and worked.

    From: http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/

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