BBC Radio 3 - The Verb, Novels that Shaped Our Language

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that has chosen ‘The Novels That Shaped Our World’, as part of the BBC’s season celebrating the 300th anniversary of the birth of the British novel. For ‘The Verb’ Kit explains why she takes pleasure in the language of Andrea Levy’s ‘Small Island’, a book that tells the story of Jamaican immigrants to Britain after World War Two, and which resonates with her as it contains echoes of her father’s story. Kit's latest novel is 'The Trick to Time'.</p> <p>The Novels that Shaped Our World is available here <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200707222241/https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/l001pcb2">https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/l001pcb2</a></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="component component--box component--box-flushbody-vertical component--box--primary component--feature"> <div class="component__header br-box-page"> <h2>Elif Shafak</h2> </div> <div class="component__body br-box-page"> <div class="feature br-keyline"> <div class="feature__img 13/24"> <img class="image lazyload " data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200707222241/https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/160x90/p07tck9v.jpg" data-srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200707222241im_/https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/80x45/p07tck9v.jpg 80w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200707222241im_/https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/160x90/p07tck9v.jpg 160w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200707222241im_/https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/320x180/p07tck9v.jpg 320w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200707222241im_/https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/480x270/p07tck9v.jpg 480w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200707222241im_/https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/640x360/p07tck9v.jpg 640w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200707222241im_/https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/768x432/p07tck9v.jpg 768w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200707222241im_/https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/896x504/p07tck9v.jpg 896w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200707222241im_/https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/1008x567/p07tck9v.jpg 1008w" data-sizes="auto" alt="Elif Shafak"> </div> <div class="feature__description centi"> <p>Elif Shafak’s writing has been shaped by Virginia Woolf’s ‘Orlando’. For Shafak, who was nominated this year for the Booker Prize, the themes of the novel still resonate nearly a hundred years after it was first published. Woolf’s style of writing, such as her use of inverted sentences, was particularly important to Shafak when she switched from writing in Turkish to English. She celebrates the ‘commute’ she makes in travelling between different languages – sometimes she might start a dream in one language and end it another - and the way English contains words with many different ethnic origins.</p><p><br/></p><p>Elif's latest novel 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World is published by Viking. </p><p> </p> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="component component--box component--box-flushbody-vertical component--box--primary component--feature"> <div class="component__header br-box-page"> <h2>Tim Minchin</h2> </div> <div class="component__body br-box-page"> <div class="feature br-keyline"> <div class="feature__img 13/24"> <img class="image lazyload " data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200707222241/https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/160x90/p07tcdmr.jpg" data-srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200707222241im_/https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/80x45/p07tcdmr.jpg 80w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200707222241im_/https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/160x90/p07tcdmr.jpg 160w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200707222241im_/https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/320x180/p07tcdmr.jpg 320w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200707222241im_/https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/480x270/p07tcdmr.jpg 480w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200707222241im_/https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/640x360/p07tcdmr.jpg 640w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200707222241im_/https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/768x432/p07tcdmr.jpg 768w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200707222241im_/https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/896x504/p07tcdmr.jpg 896w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200707222241im_/https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/1008x567/p07tcdmr.jpg 1008w" data-sizes="auto" alt="Tim Minchin"> </div> <div class="feature__description centi"> <p>Tim Minchin celebrates his favourite novel, Kurt Vonnegut’s cult classic ‘Slaughterhouse Five’ – which was published 50 years ago. Minchin praises Vonnegut’s ‘understated whimsy’ and explains why he thinks the repeated phrase ‘so it goes’ works so well - making the pedestrian beautiful, and encapsulating the ideas and the style of the book. Tim also performs ‘If the Plane Goes Down’ for the first time on radio – a song which might be called Vonnegutian in its humour and self-awareness.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="component component--box component--box-flushbody-vertical component--box--primary component--feature"> <div class="component__header br-box-page"> <h2>Geoff Dyer</h2> </div> <div class="component__body br-box-page"> <div class="feature br-keyline"> <div class="feature__img 13/24"> <img class="image lazyload " data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200707222241/https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/160x90/p07tcjlf.jpg" data-srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200707222241im_/https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/80x45/p07tcjlf.jpg 80w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200707222241im_/https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/160x90/p07tcjlf.jpg 160w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200707222241im_/https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/320x180/p07tcjlf.jpg 320w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200707222241im_/https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/480x270/p07tcjlf.jpg 480w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200707222241im_/https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/640x360/p07tcjlf.jpg 640w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200707222241im_/https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/768x432/p07tcjlf.jpg 768w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200707222241im_/https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/896x504/p07tcjlf.jpg 896w, https://web.archive.org/web/20200707222241im_/https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/1008x567/p07tcjlf.jpg 1008w" data-sizes="auto" alt="Geoff Dyer"> </div> <div class="feature__description centi"> <p>Geoff Dyer is a huge fan of the Austrian novelist Thomas Bernhard. 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