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''The Write Stuff'', "Radio 4's game of literary correctness", is a lighthearted quiz about literature on BBC Radio 4, taking a humorous look at famous literary figures, which has been running since 1998.〔http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/columnists/john-walsh/john-walsh-taboo-word-it-depends-on-whether-you-mean-the-human-bits-or-rubbish-1878747.html〕 It is chaired and written by James Walton.〔http://www.faber.co.uk/author/james-walton/〕 The two teams are captained by novelist Sebastian Faulks and journalist John Walsh, with Beth Chalmers reading literary extracts. ==Format== John Walsh and Sebastian Faulks have been team captains since the programme started. They are each joined by another journalist or novelist; frequent guests in recent years include John O'Farrell, Mark Billingham and Lynn Truss. Truss stepped in as captain to replace Faulks for series 9 (2010).〔http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006zbzb/episodes/2010〕 Each week, the programme has an "Author of the Week"; W. B. Yeats, E. M. Forster, D. H. Lawrence, Robert Burns, Philip Roth and J. K. Rowling have all so featured on the programme. The programme has, on occasion, featured a group of writers, rather than a single author, as its key study - for example, poets of the Beat Generation were the featured authors on 26 October 2010.〔http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00vhgjw〕 Each programme begins with the panellists reading favourite extracts from the author's writing, and the first round is a series of questions about the author's life and works. The programme normally ends with panellists having to write a pastiche (or parody; the programme uses the terms interchangeably) based on that week's author of the week. Walton describes these as 'the most popular bit of the programme'.〔http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/3561637/Books-buzzers-and-an-ageing-Harry-Potter.html〕 Walton sets a topic that would be so out of style of the author in question that a pastiche would be humorous. For example, when Robert Burns was the author of the week, contestants were asked to write a poem, in the style of Burns, celebrating something typically English; when the very intellectual author Philip Roth was the author of the week, contestants were asked how he might have written a children's story. Faulks has published a collection of his parodies as a book, ''Pistache''.〔http://www.sebastianfaulks.com/index.php?page_id=17〕 The intervening rounds do not focus on the author of the week. Rounds commonly included are: connections; odd one out; literary mistakes; the archive round; and a music round. The programme has normally been broadcast at 18:30 on a weekday, the normal Radio 4 comedy slot. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Write Stuff」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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