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XM Satellite Radio, in conjunction with the National Endowment for the Arts, is introducing a national radio series called The Big Read, named after the NEA’s national reading program, which celebrates great books and their place in American life.
Every weekday, the show will air audio recordings of classic novels in 30-minute installments, plus NEA-produced programs about each book, featuring interviews, commentary, and readings by actors, authors and other personalities, including: Mary Louise Parker, Robert Duvall, Colin Powell, Sandra Day O’Connor, Garrison Keillor, Cheech Marin, Alice Walker, Edward Albee, Amy Tan, Tony Hillerman, and many others.
The Big Read will premiere nationwide September 10 on Sonic Theater (XM Channel 163), the channel dedicated to books and contemporary drama. The first book in the series will be Ray Bradbury’s science-fiction novella Fahrenheit 451. Content for the series will be produced by XM, the NEA, and Audible.
The NEA first launched The Big Read in 2006 as a national initiative to encourage communities to come together to read and discuss one book. Local organizations receive grants to host community-based programs devoted to a single book, such as The Great Gatsby.
Each new installment of The Big Read radio show on XM will air three times a day, Monday through Friday, on Sonic Theater at 2:30 am, 10:30 am, and 4:30 pm ET starting September 10.
Future installments will be devoted to Willa Cather’s My Antonia, Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers, and The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan.
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