{"id":6883,"date":"2026-02-07T14:07:03","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T20:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=6883"},"modified":"2026-02-07T14:07:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T20:07:03","slug":"bbcs-front-row-interviews-james-schiff-about-the-updike-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2026\/02\/07\/bbcs-front-row-interviews-james-schiff-about-the-updike-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC&#8217;s &#8216;Front Row&#8217; interviews James Schiff about the Updike letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2026\/02\/07\/bbcs-front-row-interviews-james-schiff-about-the-updike-letters\/screenshot-2026-02-07-at-1-58-13-pm\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6884\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-6884\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-07-at-1.58.13-PM-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-07-at-1.58.13-PM-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-07-at-1.58.13-PM.png 284w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>The Nov. 11 episode of BBC&#8217;s <em>Front Row<\/em> spotlighted art historian Andrew Graham-Dixon on Vermeer and radical Christianity, James Schiff on <em>Selected Letters of John Updike<\/em>, and director Edgar Wright on the new dystopian film <em>The Running Man<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The Updike material begins around the 13:30 mark when the interviewer talks with writer Gish Jen, one of many who received letters from Updike.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/m002m04g\">Listen to the episode<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nov. 11 episode of BBC&#8217;s Front Row spotlighted art historian Andrew Graham-Dixon on Vermeer and radical Christianity, James Schiff on Selected Letters of John Updike, and director Edgar Wright on the new dystopian film The Running Man. The Updike &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2026\/02\/07\/bbcs-front-row-interviews-james-schiff-about-the-updike-letters\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":818,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,20,53,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-broadcasts","category-updike-in-context","category-updike-quoted"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/818"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6883"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6886,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6883\/revisions\/6886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}