tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-684094023681819935.post-38230720579238963062008-05-10T18:58:00.005+01:002008-05-10T20:06:55.801+01:00<a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_oV7yR_AknbY/SCXwkhC376I/AAAAAAAACd4/HKou8OtEb-I/s1600-h/f5.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5198825855005487010" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_oV7yR_AknbY/SCXwkhC376I/AAAAAAAACd4/HKou8OtEb-I/s400/f5.jpg" border="0" /></a> <div><br />I hardly ever listen to <em>Saturday Live</em> on R4, but I did today and - gosh! - there was Jane, from <a href="http://booksandmud.blogspot.com/2008/05/radio-4-saturday-live.html"><strong>Books, Mud and Compost</strong></a>, extolling the virtues of the hardback book - from her Folio Society edition of <em><strong>Diary of a Provincial Lady </strong></em>to the wonderful red 1950s/60s hardback versions of Enid Blyton's <em><strong>Famous Five</strong></em> stories.<br /><br />You can catch the programme again <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/saturdaylive/saturdaylive_20080510.shtml">on the R4 website </a>for the next seven days - Jane's about three-quarters of the way through, just after Howard Jacobson's thoughts about the importance of hardback books from an author's point of view (apropos Picador's decision to abandon publishing in hardback).</div>Juliethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18055924620237477722noreply@blogger.com