Big news! Alexander is to guest on BBC Radio 4’s Take Four Books this weekend, talking about his latest (and already much loved) stand-alone novel The Private Side of Friendship and with reference of course to No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency. Previous guests on the programme include Karl Ove Knausgaard, Katherine Rundell, Chris Kraus, Philippa Gregory, […]

Neil MacGregor, presenter of The Museums that Make Us programmes on BBC Radio 4 and known throughout the world for his earlier series, A History of the World in 100 Objects, chose The Great Tapestry of Scotland as ‘the museum that epitomised the changes in purpose and practice encountered’ on his travels, ‘a demonstration of what the […]