BBC 6 Music takes a closer look at the musical influences of some of the UK's most successful novelists, and how they weave those influences through their work.
Ian Rankin opens the Paperback Writers season with his pick of the best of 2010. A Scottish theme runs throgh the show with tracks from Steve mason, Belle and Sebastian, and Mogwai.
DetailsNovelist Jonathan Coe selects an hour of his favourite music.
DetailsPoet Simon Armitage CBE, if you will! He waxes lyrical about his musical heroes, assuring us that Bob Dylan is no poet, and that The Fall have written a song about him!
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