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Harold Pinter gains literature award (1995)

Genre

Interview

Harold Pinter, playwright, has been awarded the David Cohen Prize for British Literature. At the ceremony, friend and colleague Salman Rushdie says a major literature honour in Pinter’s own country was...

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William Barnes friends Interview; Literature in Dorset - Reel 2 - nd [1975-1986]

Track 1- Friends of William Barnes in conversation talking about his life and writings. Born February 22, 1801 and died on October 7, 1886. Readings of his poems. Track 2- An interview with Sue Ashby, a...

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Daisy Miller (1985)

Genre

Fiction; Serial

Reading from the novel Daisy Miller by Henry James, tells of the confused courtship of an American girl in Rome. Continuation and to be continued. Female narrator not identified

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Frank Muir on The Oxford Book of Humourous Prose (1990)

Genre

Interview

Lesley Judd interviews on the Artbeat programme comedy writer and television personality Frank Muir as his new book The Oxford Book of Humorous Prose is to be published next week. On the book, English...

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Portrait of Jane Austen (1985)

Genre

Discussion; Special

Conversation between Jane Austen biographer Lord David Cecil and Sean Street, recorded at Lord Cecil’s Cranborne home.

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Harold Pinter on being awarded the David Cohen Prize for British Literature (1995)

Genre

Interview

Playwright and writer Harold Pinter has been awarded the David Cohen Prize for British Literature. At the ceremony, Pinter is reticent over his writing qualities. Interviewer not heard.

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V S Pritchett on English language and career (1980)

Genre

Interview; Discussion

Interview with British writer and critic V S Pritchett (Victor Sawdon Pritchett), on his upbringing, the use of English in the modern world, the standard of modern literature and criticism, and his own work....

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Steve Jones show (1988)

Genre

Interview

Steve Jones Show. Steve Jones talks to writer Denis Bond, about teenage literature, his own novel Rough Mix, his work in teaching and in the pop industry, his TV scriptwriting, and his work with musician...

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A portrait of Jane Austen: A conversation with Lord David Cecil (1985)

Genre

Interview

A programme on the life and career of English author Jane Austen, outlining her work and her life, death and personal affairs. Presented by Sean Street, who talks to Austen’s biographer, Lord David Cecil....

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Daisy Miller (1985)

Genre

Fiction; Serial

Reading from Daisy Miller, Henry James’s 1878 novella. In the story Daisy Miller portrays the confused courtship of the eponymous American girl, who is very beautiful, by Winterbourne, a compatriot with...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio