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Mac DeMarco // Passing Out Pieces

Joakim Benon and Elin Kastlander of @jjuniverse take on Dr. Dre's beat.

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Saudi Arabia and comedy are rarely uttered in the same sentence. But that's only our misconception. Take for example Fahad al Butairi, a very popular stand-up comedian in the Kingdom.

Meet this very popular stand-up comedian from Saudi Arabia

US literary superstar Jonathan Franzen talks about his hugely acclaimed novel Freedom. An epic of contemporary love and marriage, Freedom charts the exploits of the Berglund family, capturing the temptations and burdens of liberty, the thrills of teenage lust, the frustrations of trying to change the world, and the sobering compromises of middle age. 



In fixing his unflinching gaze on the memorable trio of characters, Patty, Walter, and reprobate rockstar Richard Katz and on how they struggle to live in an ever more confusing world, Franzen has produced an indelible and deeply moving portrait of 21st Century America.



(Photo: Jonathan Franzen. Credit: Getty Images) Published on November 7, 2015.

Jonathan Franzen - Freedom

With James Naughtie. Recorded at the BBC at the Edinburgh Festivals, Allan Massie discusses his novel A Question of Loyalties. First published in 1989, the book is widely acclaimed as his finest.

The novel engages with all the complexities and ambiguities of loyalty and nationality as it follows a family through the divisions in France during World War II, and the repercussions which last for decades. 

In the early 1950s Etienne de Balafré strives to find out what happened to his father when the German invasion of 1940 divided the country between collaboration and resistance. Where some might see an accomplice, the author Allan Massie seeks to understand a human being making difficult choices.

As always on Bookclub, a group of especially invited readers join in the discussion.

October's Bookclub choice : Dirt Music by Tim Winton (2002)

Presenter : James Naughtie
Interviewed Guest : Allan Massie
Producer : Dymphna Flynn. Published on September 7, 2014.

Allan Massie - A Question of Loyalties

From Black Milk's No Poison No Paradise album

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Sunday's Best / Monday's Worst

James Naughtie and readers talk to acclaimed authors about their best known novels. Authors include: Douglas Adams, Alan Bennett, Alice Sebold and Maya Angelou.

Allan Massie - A Question of Loyalties

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