daveh
23-02-2009, 02:20 PM
Actually he was on last night (Sunday) but it is repeated on Thursday so you can catch it then or vis Listen Again. Haven't heard it myself yet.
See http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/arts/openbook/openbook.shtml which says:
"Iain M Banks and The Culture
Mariella talks to a wrier with two literary personas. Iain Banks - who caused a sensation with his debut The Wasp Factory in 1983 - is also one of our best-known science fiction authors, writing under the name Iain M Banks. As one of his novellas is adapted for radio, he talks about his creation The Culture, a highly sophisticated utopian civilisation.
The State of the Art is the Afternoon Play on BBC Radio 4 on Friday 6th March."
[Only a couple of things factually incorrect here. The Wasp Factory was published in 1984 (although it was written in 1980 and you could say it caused a small sensation when it was accepted for publication and the paperback rights were sold in 1983), and The State of the Art is on Thursday 5th March (although it was originally scheduled for Friday 6th). Plus they cannot spell writer, Banks is of course, wrier than most writers, but which persona of his is the wrier?]
See http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/arts/openbook/openbook.shtml which says:
"Iain M Banks and The Culture
Mariella talks to a wrier with two literary personas. Iain Banks - who caused a sensation with his debut The Wasp Factory in 1983 - is also one of our best-known science fiction authors, writing under the name Iain M Banks. As one of his novellas is adapted for radio, he talks about his creation The Culture, a highly sophisticated utopian civilisation.
The State of the Art is the Afternoon Play on BBC Radio 4 on Friday 6th March."
[Only a couple of things factually incorrect here. The Wasp Factory was published in 1984 (although it was written in 1980 and you could say it caused a small sensation when it was accepted for publication and the paperback rights were sold in 1983), and The State of the Art is on Thursday 5th March (although it was originally scheduled for Friday 6th). Plus they cannot spell writer, Banks is of course, wrier than most writers, but which persona of his is the wrier?]