The BBC World Service airs World Book Club with Janice Galloway on Sunday, August 3rd at 12:06 ET. The Arts Hour will be dropped to accommodate. World Book Club is an unclocked 53 minutes. Stations in automation will need to change their automation. 

Title: World Book Club with Janice Galloway

Transmission: Sunday, August 3 at 12:06 ET

Clock: unclocked 53 minutes

Air window: Evergreen

Download: This program is available to download from the Arts and Culture section of the BBC Partner Site.

Description: Harriett Gilbert talks to Janice Galloway about her novel The Trick is to Keep Breathing. The novel was shortlisted for both the Whitbread First Novel and Scottish First Book awards.

Drama teacher Joy Stone is losing her grip. In an intriguing story of the onset and evolution of depression, her problems accumulate, denial activates, and food becomes a major player. All the while, she is trying to cope with the loss of her married lover and her own mother.

Through the wit and irony that is gaining international applause, Galloway crafts the chicken-or-egg dilemma of life in our times and being depressed. Yet even through her growing obsessions and the metamorphoses of family and friends into suspicious characters, Galloway’s main character and the reader find that the trick in living rests with the simplest things.