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D M Thomas, author of ‘The White Hotel’, talks to Michael Jacobs. The novel is about one of Freud’s patients and combines the themes of love and death. The book raises questions about the relationship...
An introduction to ‘Jane Eyre’ (1847), including dramatised interpretation, period images, biographical details, and analysis of characters and text. Covers plot development; the relationship between...
A television adaptation by David Lodge of the Charles Dickens novel, with Paul Schofield in the title role. Old Martin Chuzzlewit is very rich but paranoid that everyone is after his money. His grandson has...
George Eliot’s saga of love, disillusionment and blackmail in 19th-century England, adapted by Andrew Davies. Dorothea misguidedly marries the Rev. Edward Casaubon, whilst Dr Lydgate finds his ideals...
Discusses the commercial conditions which effect the writing, publishing and selling of literature in the context of novelist Jeanette Winterson’s experiences as a successful young writer who recently...
Filmed on location around Christ Church, Oxford, where Lewis Carroll lived most of his life, and in the British Library where his manuscripts and papers are held. Traces the Alice story from the original...
Discusses P D James’ development as a writer, the structure of her books, and the serious issues which underlie them - loneliness, isolation, guilt, death, redemption.
Ian McEwan gives several lengthy readings from his novel ‘A Child in Time’ after a short introduction to his work by Martin Amis.
Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe in conversation with Somali writer Nuruddin Farah. They discuss Achebe’s sense of identity - African and Nigerian, the question of language in a multicultural society,...
Janice Shinebourne and Beryl Gilroy are each interviewed separately. Janice Shinebourne discusses her Guyanese background, the influence of the landscape, social conditions, her family on her writing - and...
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