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The Book Show is a Australian ABC radio
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly referred to as the ABC, is Australia's national Public broadcasting.With a budget of Australian dollar840 million annually, the corporation provides television, radio, online and mobile services throughout metropolitan and regional Australia, as well as overseas through the Australia Net...
 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 radio network broadcast by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation with programs including news and current affairs , arts, music, society, 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.Koval is known for her extended and in-depth interviews with significant writers....
 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.






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The Book Show is a Australian ABC radio
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly referred to as the ABC, is Australia's national Public broadcasting.With a budget of Australian dollar840 million annually, the corporation provides television, radio, online and mobile services throughout metropolitan and regional Australia, as well as overseas through the Australia Net...
 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 radio network broadcast by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation with programs including news and current affairs , arts, music, society, 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.Koval is known for her extended and in-depth interviews with significant writers....
 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
Salman Rushdie

Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie is a British Indian novelist and essayist. He first achieved fame with his second novel, Midnight's Children , which won the Booker Prize in 1981....
 and Ursula Le Guin.

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


  • Philip Gourevitch
    Philip Gourevitch

    Philip Gourevitch , an United States-Jewish author and journalist, is the editor of "The Paris Review" and a longtime staff writer of The New Yorker....
    , Paris Review
    Paris Review

    The Paris Review is an English-language literary magazine based in New York City. As its name suggests it was founded in Paris in 1953, for "the good writers and good poets, the non-drumbeaters and non-axe grinders....
  • Lewis H. Lapham
    Lewis H. Lapham

    Lewis Lapham is an United States writer. He was the editor of the United States monthly Harper's Magazine from 1976 until 1981, and from 1983 until 2006....
    , Lapham's Quarterly
    Lapham's Quarterly

    Lapham's Quarterly is a quarterly journal founded by former Harper's Magazine editor Lewis Lapham. Each issue examines a theme using primary source material from history....
  • Professor Rukmini Bhaya Nair
    Rukmini Bhaya Nair

    Rukmini Bhaya Nair is a poet and a professor of Linguistics and English in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi....
    , Biblio India
  • Robert B. Silvers
    Robert B. Silvers

    Robert B. Silvers is an American editor who has served as editor of The New York Review of Books since 1963. Jason Epstein called Silvers "The most brilliant editor of a magazine ever to have worked in this country."...
    , New York Review of Books
  • Sir Peter Stothard
    Peter Stothard

    Sir Peter Stothard is a United Kingdom newspaper editing, currently for the Times Literary Supplement, but of The Times from 1992 to 2002....
    , Times Literary Supplement
  • Nury Vittachi
    Nury Vittachi

    Nury Vittachi is one of Asia's best-known journalist-authors. His columns are published daily, weekly or monthly in numerous countries across Asia and he has a popular website....
    , Asia Literary Review


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