Open Book - 18/07/2010

Mariella Frostrup talks to novelist Richard Russo about his home town and how its landscape has influenced his writing. Composer Michael Berkeley and writer Wesley Stace discuss the art of describing the music of a fictional composer. Nicholas Shakespeare explores the potential dangers of inheriting seventeen million pounds as played out in his new novel Inheritance. And with three new books devoted to Anne Frank coming out, David Cesarani talks to Mariella about the likely reasons for the enduring fascination with her diary... Producer Sally Spurring.