On the Grapevine Sessions, hosts Harry and Nicholas discuss books and ideas, sparked by 'grapes' – passages from the world's books, chosen from Grapevine (atgrapevine.com). Grapes this week: + Kazuo Ishiguro on the unique dignity of Englishmen (The Remains of the Day) + John Fowles on the English (The Magus) + Javier Marias on the glazed eyes of an English gaze (All Souls) + Harold Nicolson on the repressive rites of an English public school (Some People) + Kazuo Ishiguro on England's lost corner (Never Let Me Go) + Mary Shelley on the death of the monster (Frankenstein) + Margaret Cavendish on the source of youth in the blazing world (The Blazing World) + Joan Didion on the importance of self-respect (Slouching Towards Bethlehem) + Virginia Woolf on the carefree charms of Margaret Cavendish (The Common Reader)

On the Grapevine Sessions, hosts Harry and Nicholas discuss books and ideas, sparked by 'grapes' – passages from the world's books, chosen from Grapevine (atgrapevine.com). Grapes this week: + James Joyce on a day in Dublin (Ulysses) + George Orwell on reading Ulysses (Inside the Whale) + George Bernard Shaw on the truth of Ulysses (in Shakespeare and Company) + John Carey on the intimacy - and alienation - of Ulysses (The Intellectuals and the Masses) + Nicole Krauss on the frustrations of Kakfa (Forest Dark) + John Keats on an ode to a nightingale (Ode to a Nightingale) + Sara Baum on the death of a swan (Spill Simmer Falter Wither) + James Baldwin on life and death (The Fire Next Time) + Mike McCormack on a man experiencing his death (Solar Bones) + Chinua Achebe on the mind of a colonial (Things Fall Apart)