Podcast Episodes featuring Peter Carey

Peter Carey | A Long Way from Home with Alan Hollinghurst | The Sparsholt Affair

Free Library Podcast - July 16, 2018 09:25 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 106 ratings
A writer who ''luxuriates in language'' (San Francisco Chronicle), Peter Carey is the author of 15 quirky and daring novels, including Parrot and Olivier in America, Bliss, Oscar and Lucinda, and The True History of the Kelly Gang, the latter two of which won the Man Booker Prize. Frequently posi...

Peter Carey

TALKING POLITICS - January 18, 2018 01:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 619 ratings
David talks to two-time Booker-prize winning novelist Peter Carey (Oscar and Lucinda, True History of the Kelly Gang) about his latest book A Long Way From Home, which tells a story of race and dispossession in Australia's recent past. Plus we cover a lot else besides: Trump, conspiracy theories...

1309: A 2012 Interview With Peter Carey

Rick Kleffel:Narrative Species–The Agony Column - June 18, 2012 02:00 ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
"...a story which was about the wild, wild, very beautiful thrilling inventions..."

Peter Carey

Desert Island Discs: Archive 2005-2010 - June 20, 2008 08:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 126 ratings
Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the author Peter Carey. He says he grew up in his homeland "thinking that Australian history was dull and Australian literature was dull" and that he developed a strong passion to make it new and fresh. In this he has surely succeeded - he is one of only two ...

Peter Carey

Bookclub - February 01, 2004 16:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★ - 208 ratings
Peter Carey joins James Naughtie and a group of readers, to discuss his novel the True History of the Kelly Gang.

Peter Carey

World Book Club - September 25, 2003 15:16 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 335 ratings
Peter Carey joins an audience of World Service listeners to discuss his novel 'Oscar and Lucinda'. Introduced by Harriett Gilbert.