Podcast Episodes featuring Sebastian Faulks

Sebastian Faulks

Arts & Ideas - September 13, 2018 21:45 - 44 minutes ★★★★ - 268 ratings
The author of Birdsong talks to Anne McElvoy in one of the first conversations about his new novel. Sebastian Faulks discusses depicting France past and present from World War I to Algeria and immigration now as he publishes his latest novel called Paris Echo. Recorded with an audience at the BB...

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How To Fail With Elizabeth Day - July 18, 2018 08:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 717 ratings
Sebastian Faulks, bestselling novelist and author of Birdsong and Charlotte Gray, joins How To Fail to talk about his failure to win the Booker Prize (“the whole thing is absolutely ridiculous”), his sense of social isolation at boarding school and a period of depression at university he feels he...

Sebastian Faulks

Desert Island Discs: Archive 2005-2010 - March 29, 2009 10:15 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 126 ratings
Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the writer Sebastian Faulks. He is best known for his novel Birdsong, which told in shocking detail the misery of life in the Flanders trenches. It was published with little fanfare or glossy advertising and failed to win any major awards - but it became a li...

Sebastian Faulks

World Book Club - May 02, 2008 09:50 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 335 ratings
Best-selling English writer Sebastian Faulks talks about his heart-rending novel of love and war, Birdsong.

Sebastian Faulks

Bookclub - May 03, 1998 15:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★ - 208 ratings
In the first edition of this new programme, James Naughtie and a group of readers talk to author, Sebastian Faulks, about his best-selling novel, Birdsong.