Genre Book Discussion Show Country Australia Home station Radio National | Running time 1 hour Language(s) English | |
Syndicates Australian Broadcasting Corporation | ||
The Book Show was an Australian ABC radio program for the discussion of everything relating to the written word. It was broadcast live around Australia on Radio National with a daily weekday morning show, which was then replayed nightly and also had a Sunday evening show. The show was hosted by Ramona Koval and featured a host of experts from various literary fields. The Book Show was created in 2006 and was the world's only daily radio program devoted to books, writing and publishing. The show featured interviews such as with Salman Rushdie and Ursula K. Le Guin.
Contents
Now, The Book Show is an archived program that is no longer broadcast.
Format
The daily program explored 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
It was 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 was produced by Michael Shirrefs and Sarah L'Estrange. The Executive Producer was Liz Gray.