Fiction Uncovered FM 87.9
Fiction Uncovered presented a four day pop-up FM radio station broadcasting from Foyles bookshop, Charing Cross Road from 20 – 23 June 2012 which broadcast live from 87.9FM and was also streamed live online.
The radio station featured content around the eight selected titles as well as a much wider range of fiction.
Podcasts of each of the shows is now available for download on iTunes.
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See below for details of who popped in to the pop-up:
WEDNESDAY 20 JUNE
Presenter: Katy Guest, Fiction Uncovered 2012 judge and Literary Editor at the Independent on Sunday
11am: Fiction Uncovered 2012 author Doug Johnstone reads from and talks about Hit and Run with Fiction Uncovered judge Matt Thorne
11.30am: Ian McEwan Lecture on Originality, Courtesy of Royal Society of Literature
12pm: Reading and Q&A with writer Stella Duffy
12:30pm: Wasifiri panel on Asian Bloomsbury with Professor Susheila Nasta and Dr Florian Stadler from the Beyond the Frame project
1pm: Panel discussion on crime fiction with John Grindrod, Faber and Faber; Jake Kerridge, Telegraph; Cathi Unsworth, author, with book giveaway from Bello books
1:30pm: Fiction Uncovered 2012 author Susanna Jones reads from and talks about When Nights Were Cold with Fiction Uncovered judge Matt Thorne
2pm: Reading and Q&A with writer Philip Hensher, in conversation with Katy Guest
2:30pm: Salon London live special with host Helen Bagnall, joined by Michael Brooks, Odette Toilette and Flexie Musio
3:30pm – 4pm: Foyles Daily Drama, The Foil, part one of the exclusive radio drama by Gabriel Bisset-Smith
THURSDAY 21 JUNE
Presenter: Damian Barr, journalist, playwright, host of Soho House Literary Salon and Fiction Uncovered judge 2011
11am: Fiction Uncovered 2012 author Cressida Connolly reads from and talks about My Former Heart with Fiction Uncovered Chair of Judges 2012 John Sutherland
11:30am: Richard Kelly discusses how they’re uncovering fiction at Faber Finds, with Marcel Theroux novelist and broadcaster and Andrew Male, Mojo magazine
12pm: Reading and Q and A with Jake Arnott
12:30pm: Advice for aspiring writers of literary fiction from Jenny Hewson, Rogers, Coleridge & White literary agency; Hannah Westland, Serpent’s Tail; and Emily Rhodes, Daunt Books
1pm: Panel discussion on ‘the ethical reader’ with Sophie Rochester, The Literary Platform and Fiction Uncovered; Tom Chivers, Penned in the Margins and Andrew Furlow, Icon Books.Â
1:30pm: Fiction Uncovered 2012 author Jill Dawson reads from and talks about Lucky Bunny with Fiction Uncovered judge Jasper Sutcliffe, Foyles
2pm: Panel Discussion on Specialist Prizes with Jill Dawson, author selected for Fiction Uncovered 2012, Catherine Hall, judge on Green Carnation Prize and selected for Fiction Uncovered 2011 and Jonathan Ruppin, Online Editor at Foyles Bookshops
2:30pm: Shoreditch House Literary Salon – podcast with Chris Cleave
3:30pm – 4pm: Foyles Daily Drama, The Foil, an exclusive radio play set around Foyles by Gabriel Bisset-Smith
FRIDAY 22 JUNE
Presenter: Fiction Uncovered 2012 Judge, writer, novelist and journalist Matt Thorne
11am: Fiction Uncovered 2012 author David Park reads from and talks about The Light of Amsterdam with Fiction Uncovered Chair of Judges 2012 John Sutherland
11.30am: Bloomsbury Institute podcast: Short Stories with Jon McGregor, DW Wilson and Roshi Fernando
12pm: Is digital making ‘literary fiction’ genre fiction? With Philip Jones, The Bookseller and FutureBook; Julia Kingsford, World Book Night; Jonathan Ruppin, Foyles
12:30pm: Advice for writers from ethnic minority backgrounds from Susan Yearwood, Susan Yearwood Literary Agency; Rukhsana Yasmin, The Westbourne Press; and Vivian Archer, Newham Bookshop
1pm: Panel discussion on Independent Booksellers Week with Jasper Sutcliffe, Foyles and Fiction Uncovered 2012 Judge; Meryl Halls, Booksellers Association; Vivian Archer, Newham Bookshop; and Eleanor Lowenthal, Pages of Hackney
1.30pm: Fiction Uncovered 2012 author Dan Rhodes reads from and talks about This is Life with Fiction Uncovered judge Jasper Sutcliffe, Foyles
2pm: English PEN panel on translation, chaired by Max Porter, Granta and Portobello Books, with writer and translator Daniel Hahn, Katharina Bielenberg, MacLehose Press, and Jonathan Ruppin, Foyles
2:30pm: The Granta podcast with Rachel Seiffert
3:30pm – 4pm: Foyles Daily Drama, The Foil, a radio play by Gabriel Bisset-Smith
SATURDAY 23 JUNE
Presenter: Fiction Uncovered 2012 Judge, writer, novelist and journalist Matt Thorne
11am: Fiction Uncovered 2012 author Tibor Fischer reads from and talks about Crushed Mexican Spiders with Fiction Uncovered 2012 judge Matt Thorne
11:30am: Faber podcast
12pm: Reading and Q&A with Stuart Evers
12:30pm: Advice for aspiring writers of science fiction from Bella Pagan, Tor; John Berlyne, Zeno Literary Agency; and Den Patrick, Blackwells
1pm: Panel discussion on diversity in publishing with Val Brandes (Jacaranda Books) and Bobby Nayyar (Equip and Limehouse)
1:30pm: Fiction Uncovered 2012 author Peter Benson reads from and talks about Two Cows and a Vanful of Smoke with Fiction Uncovered 2012 judge Jasper Sutcliffe
2pm: Geoff Dyer in conversation with Matt Thorne
2:30pm: Courttia Newland in conversation with Matt Thorne
3:00pm: David Baddiel in conversation with Matt Thorne
3:30pm – 4pm: Foyles Daily Drama, The Foil, the final part of our special Fiction Uncovered FM radio play by Gabriel Bisset-Smith
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