Use BBC.com or the new BBC App to listen to BBC podcasts, Radio 4 and the World Service outside the UK.

Find out how to listen to other BBC stations

Episode details

World Service,25 Sep 2001,24 mins

The Devil's well-stocked Larder

Meridian

Available for over a year

Jim Crace talks about his lastest book, The Devil's Larder, a sequence of meditations, jokes, parables and horror stories around the subject of food. How Serbian novelist Vladimir Arsenijević and Albanian Kosovar poet Xhevdet Bajraj were enemies who became friends, brought together through writing, in Mexico. Plus, Schooling by American novelist, Heather McGowan. Presenter: Harriett Gilbert.

Programme Website
More episodes