Thursday, August 8, 2019

Podcast family

Bloomsbury UK’s publishing director Alexis Kirschbaum has won rights to Cariad Lloyd's "Your Are Not Alone", beating off 14 other bidders at auction.

Says Alexis “Like many people, I’ve been listening to Cariad Lloyd’s ‘Griefcast’ for years. Her podcast has registered and changed the kinds of public conversations people feel able to have about grief and grieving, helping millions of listeners in the process. Her book will be thrilling because we will get more of Cariad, who is a searching, humane, and radiant writer. It will crystallise hundreds of hours of listening into a loose framework for grief that will alleviate suffering, because it is full of life and humour and wisdom and because it offers readers understanding.”

Griefcast is not a BBC production. Alexis is married to BBC Director of Radio & Education, James Purnell.

Last night, a three part version of Partition Voices concluded on Radio 4. The book, by Kavita Puri, was published by Bloomsbury in July. Next week's Radio 4 Book of the Week is Mudlarking, by Lara Maiklem, to be published by Bloomsbury on August 22. And there's more.








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