After 9:00, Kim talks to Stephen Page, chief executive of Faber and Faber. The British publishing house celebrates its 80th anniversary this year, with a new edition of the 1939 book Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats by original Faber editor T.S. Eliot, illustrated by Axel Scheffler; the Faber Firsts ( ten republished paperbacks of Faber debut novels); Poetry Classics by Auden, Eliot, Hughes, Plath, Betjeman and Yeats; all of Samuel Beckett’s work in newly edited editions; and Faber and Faber: Eighty Years of Book Cover Design by Joseph Connolly.
http://www.faber.co.uk/
Also on the programme:
Around 8:40, former George W Bush speechwriter Matt Latimer tells all in Speech-Less: Tales of a White House Survivor (Crown Publishers, ISBN 978-0-307-46372-2).
In Kate's Klassics at 9:45, Kate Camp will discuss Inferno by Dante Alighieri (Penguin Classics,
And artist Dick Frizzell closes the show from 11.30, talking about his big new
book, Dick Frizzell - The Painter (Godwit, ISBN: 978-1-86962-174-20).For the full Saturday programme lineup, visit www.radionz.co.nz/saturday
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