Antonia Quirke
Antonia Quirke is an author and journalist. Her novel Madame Depardieu and the Beautiful Strangers was published in 2007. She writes a column on radio for the New Statesman and also writes for the Sunday Times.
Articles by Antonia Quirke
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Radio
He is like a human shed
- 10 September 2009
Unable to sleep, I am soothed by the worn-out voice of Richard Allinson
Radio
Oh, to be left alone in one’s own bed . . .
- 03 September 2009
Elderly widows discover the joys of not always having to look good
Radio
Westwood goes AWOL in Magaluf
- 27 August 2009
BBC music journos can’t help getting territorial when let loose abroad
Radio
Hippies and Tories are game for a laugh
- 20 August 2009
Pete’s acid has worn off, and Norman Tebbit is up to his elbows in feathers
Radio
Monsoons, maharanis and millionaires
- 06 August 2009
In Delhi, devotees of an FM station call in to moan about the weather
Radio
Maxing the Whammy
- 30 July 2009
Joan Armatrading’s favourite guitarists end up stating the bleedin’ obvious
Culture
The left hand’s final frontier
- 23 July 2009
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Far-out jazz chat is all well and good, Keith, but tell us about the divorce
Radio
We all have our moments
- 16 July 2009
David Thewlis reading Tennyson has the edge over T in the Park
Radio
Censorship? Tee hee!
- 09 July 2009
The Dalai Lama has more in common with a teenage girl than you'd expect
Radio
He’s just not that into you, Miss Eyre
- 02 July 2009
How would the great romances of literature have fared in the self-help era?









