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A series of five 15-minute Radio 4 programmes each recorded on location at a unique or definitive collection of some sort (eg teeth, plants, ice, recordings of English dialects). With the help of the...
Melvyn Bragg presents an analysis and celebration of the remarkable language, voice and vocal acrobatics displayed throughout his life by Sir Winston Churchill. The programme examines the way Churchill used...
Radio series. To celebrate the BBC’s November Shakespeare season, presenter Roger McGough introduces requests for verse by Shakespeare. Sonnets and excerpts read by Fiona Shaw and Barrie Rutter. (30 minutes)
Dame Muriel Spark talks to Mark Lawson at her home in Tuscany about her disastrous teenage marriage, the boyfriend who tried to sell her back her own letters and her conversion to Catholicism.
A feature on the Radio 4 programme Front Row. Mark Lawson talks to Julian Barnes in his London home about his writing career, why his ‘Who’s Who’ entry is so enigmatically brief, and why he shrugs off...
Extracts from a BBC radio interview with Iris Murdoch, originally broadcast on Radio 4’s NOW READ ON on 27/10/1971. Iris Murdoch talks to Antonia Byatt about: when she started writing, the well told story...
Extracts from two BBC radio interviews with Joseph Heller, In the first, originally broadcast on Radio 4’s WOMAN’S HOUR on 27/5/1980, Joseph Heller talks about: what the term Catch 22 means 0 min 41;...
Extracts from a BBC radio interview with Graham Greene, English novelist, short-story writer, travel writer, playwright and screenwriter, originally broadcast on Radio 4’s A WRITER AT WORK on 15/8/1969....
Extracts from a BBC radio interview with Roddy Doyle, originally broadcast on Radio 4’s FRONT ROW on 19/8/1999. Author of The Commitments and the Booker Prize Winning novel Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, Roddy...
Extracts from a BBC radio interview with Vladimir Nabakov originally broadcast on Radio 4’s REVIEW on 4/10/1969. Vladimir Nabokov talks to James Mossman about: his view of other writers and the difference...
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