The Book Show

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The Book Show
Ramona Koval Presenter of The Book Show
Genre	Book Discussion Show
Running time	1 hour
Country	Australia
Languages	English
Home station	Radio National
Syndicates	Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Hosts	Ramona Koval
Producers	Michael Shirrefs Sarah L'Estrange
Air dates	2006 to
Website http://www.abc.net.au/rn/bookshow/
Podcast http://www.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/feeds/bsw.xml

The Book Show is a Australian ABC radio program for the discussion of everything relating to the written word. It is broadcast live around Australia on Radio National with a daily weekday morning show which is then replayed nightly and also has a sunday evening show. The show is hosted by Ramona Koval and features a host of experts from various literary fields. The Book Show was created in 2006 and is the world's only daily radio program devoted to books, writing and publishing. The show has featured interviews such as with Salmon Rushdie^[1] and Ursula Le Guin^[2].

1 Format
2 Presenter and Producers
3 Contributor Panel
4 Footnotes
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Format

The daily program explores the many worlds in which readers and writers, publishers and booksellers, playwrights and lyricists, bloggers and journalists, book illustrators and type designers are all working with words and the medium of language.

[edit] Presenter and Producers

Hosted by Ramona Koval who won the Order of Australia Media Award in 1995. She is well known for her extended and in-depth interviews with significant writers and has a long and varied career on radio. The show is produced by Michael Shirrefs and Sarah L'Estrange.