Writing Love: Sarah Hall, Monica Ali, Adam Mars-Jones
Arts & Ideas
BBC
4.2 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 18 January 2022
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Love during a lockdown is at the centre of Sarah Hall's latest book Burntcoat. Monica Ali's new novel is called Love Marriage and looks at love across two cultures and different ideas about feminism, family and careers. Adam Mars-Jones' Box Hill is a darkly affecting love story between men set in 1975. The authors join Shahidha Bari for a conversation exploring writing about relationships.
Burntcoat by Sarah Hall and Box Hill by Adam Mars-Jones are both out now. Monica Ali's novel Love Marriage is published in February 2022.
Producer: Jessica Treen
You can find other conversations about writing in the Free Thinking Prose and Poetry playlist https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p047v6vh
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| 0:00.0 | Can I just say? |
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| 0:10.6 | The roof is buckling. |
| 0:11.9 | Where you can also listen to live sports commentary. |
| 0:14.2 | It's right foot goes for goal. |
| 0:16.7 | And then enjoy even more podcasts full of analysis and reaction to the big stories. |
| 0:21.7 | The stat that is astonishing is they ended with the lowest amount of possession. |
| 0:25.2 | And she's had to live with that. |
| 0:26.8 | So if you love sport, a passion, it's almost like a religion. |
| 0:29.7 | Listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:31.7 | Sort of expecting that every week now. |
| 0:34.8 | Hello, it is possible to love a human being, but only if you don't know them too well, |
| 0:40.2 | observed the American writer Charles Bukowski. In today's Arts and Ideas program, we're getting |
| 0:45.3 | to know three contemporary novelists and learning what they think about love and how they write it. |
| 0:51.2 | Join me, Shah Heide Abari, and my guests, Monica Ali, Sarah Hall and Adam |
| 0:55.7 | Miles Jones, just after this. Hello, my name's Ian McMillan, and before you slide into the podcast |
| 1:01.4 | you were expecting, let me tell you a little bit about my programme, The Verb, Radio 3's Literary |
| 1:06.1 | Festival, Language Cafe, and Journey to the Centre of the Sent sentence. We'll hear new poems and stories, |
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