Leafing Through is a podcast exclusive to the Planet website where we'll be inviting leading figures to revisit influential books in their lives. Remember to check back regularly to listen to many more. Touch or click the box of the Leafing Through contributor to start the file through your browser or right/ctrl click or hold down and choose to download as an mp3.
Mike Parker

Mike Parker talks about Jan Morris's Conundrum, published in 1974. Click on the photo to start
Francesca Rhydderch

Francesca Rhyddech looks at Francine Prose's recent study of Anne Frank's Diary
Matt Jarvis

Matthew Jarvis dips his toe into one of Ruth Bidgood's poems from her 1992 Selected Poems
Ceri Thomas

Ceri Thomas talks about The Little Prince and reveals some surprising aspects
Rachel Trezise

Rachel chooses The Shipping News by Annie Proulx and looks at parallels to her own writing
Clive Hicks-Jenkins

Clive Hicks-Jenkins indulges his passion in Lotte Eisner's beautiful writing in The Haunted Screen
Eddie Ladd

Eddie Ladd twists and turns around the concepts held in Kurt Vonneguts' Slaughterhouse 5
Osi Rhys Osmond

Osi introduces The Bird Path by Kenneth White in an entertaining Leafing Through!
Cynan Jones

Cynan Jones on The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré
Richard Wyn Jones

Richard Wyn Jones on Tom Nairn's precient title, The Break Up of Britain
Keith Morris

Keith Morris explores his relationship with photography with the help of the classic American west


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