Gardener’s Corner reviews In Kiltumper: A Year In an Irish Garden, a record of howdeeply life can be lived within a garden’s walls,and chats to the book's authors, Niall Williamsand Christine Breen
GARDENERS' CORNERSATURDAY 23RD, 9AM
Kerry helps bring Book Week 2021 to aclose with a special selection of songsinspired by classic novels
ON YOUR BEHALFWEDNESDAY 20TH 6PM & SATURDAY 23RD, 10AM
HUGO DUNCANDAILY, 1.30PM
THE STEPHEN MCAULEY SHOWDAILY, 7.30PM
THE MARK PATTERSON SHOW DAILY, 1.30PM, BBC RADIO FOYLE
Mark chats to Derry born author SéamasO'Reilly about his memoir Did You HearMammy Died? Childrens' book authorTerri Lamberton tells Mark about howher children inspire her writing and Markreturns a very overdue book to DerryCentral Library
John interviews British explorer, writerand poet Sir Ranulph Fiennes on thetheme of Discoveries and his new book,Shackleton, an account of the adventurer,his life and his incredible leadershipunder the most extreme of circumstances
THE JOHN TOAL SHOW SATURDAY 23RD, 11AM
THE VINNY HURRELL SHOWFRIDAY 22ND, 3PM
Stephen interviews Will Sergeant ofEcho and The Bunnymen Local music heroes Kwame Daniels,Joshua Burnside & Naomi Hamiltonshare their favourite books of all time
KERRY MCLEAN SUNDAY 24TH, 2PM
CULTURE CAFE SATURDAY 23RD, 6PM
Marie-Louise Muirinterviews two legendaryIrish authors - Roddy Doyleand Paul Muldoon
Irish Rugby Legend, Willie Anderson, tellsSportSound about his Autobiography, CrossingThe Line
SPORTSOUND EXTRA TIMEMONDAY 18TH, 6PM
Programme highlights; 18-24th October 2021 #BookWeekNI
Book Week on BBCRadio Ulster
THE LYNETTE FAY SHOWTUESDAY 19TH, 3PM
YOUR PLACE AND MINESATURDAY 23RD 8AM
Linda McAuley attends zoom classes run byNI libraries which educate members of thepublic on their rights as consumers
'Ballycastle poet laureate' Kate Newman joins YPAMto tell us about Poetry Ireland plus we meet JoZebedee, sci-fi and fantasy author who opened abookshop in Carrickfergus during lockdown
Pete Johnson, author of the Louis TheLaugh children’s book series, joinsLynette to launch the NI kids' JokeBook in Partnership with Libraries NI
Hugo meets a representative from StrabaneLibrary to find out all about Book Week NI and the'Love Your Library' inititative
Poetry competition winners - Vinnyhears from children whose poemswere published as part of an initiativeorganised by Aware NI and judged bythe magician Joel M
