Main content

Writing Across Distance

Six authors on different continents each take the baton from the preceding writer to reveal something of their own preoccupations during the time of lockdown.

Six authors on different continents each take the baton from the preceding writer to reveal something of their own preoccupations during the time of lockdown, before passing it directly to the next.
Taking part (in this order) are Dava Sobel in Long Island, New York, Thomas Lynch in Michigan, Okwiri Oduor in Bavaria, Claire-Louise Bennett in Galway, Akash Kapur in the southern Indian township of Auroville, and William Fiennes near Oxford.

Available now

44 minutes

Last on

Sun 24 May 2020 18:45

Broadcast

  • Sun 24 May 2020 18:45

Featured in...

What was really wrong with Beethoven?

What was really wrong with Beethoven?

Georgia Mann and neurosurgeon Henry Marsh explore the puzzle of Beethoven’s poor health.

Classical music in a strongman's Russia – has anything changed since Stalin's day?

What composer Gabriel Prokofiev and I found in Putin's Moscow...

Six Secret Smuggled Books

Six classic works of literature we wouldn't have read if they hadn't been smuggled...

Grid

Seven images inspired by the grid

World Music collector, Sir David Attenborough

The field recordings Attenborough of music performances around the world.