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A programme about Walt Whitman from the ‘Famous Authors’ series of documentary biographies. Using film, archive documents, portraits, music and commentary, the programme presents not only a factual...
The Texan writer Bobbie Louise Hawkins talks about her life and work, and reads from her work. With archive film footage and photographs.
When Raymond Carver died in 1988, he was mourned as a national literary figure and shortlisted for the Pulitzer prize, yet only ten years earlier he was marooned in a drying-out clinic. From his experiences,...
A drama-documentary exploring the early life and work of Eugene O’Neill. Made for American television.
The American ‘beat’ poet Alan Ginsberg discusses his experiences with Buddhism and his work with R D Laing. Most of the conversation is given over to exchanges about gurus and meditation centres.
A television recreation of the stage production of Arthur Miller’s 1949 play about the ageing salesman Willy Loman and his growing disillusionment with life.
After a brief introduction to Gore Vidal’s life and work by Lisa Appignanesi, the author discusses with Lorna Sage his book ‘Lincoln’. Vidal also comments on American history - the Civil war in...
Joseph Heller, American author of the anti-war novel ‘Catch 22’ in conversation with Michael Kustow.
Maya Angelou is interviewed at the ICA and talks about writing through the black experience; the human spirit in adversity; prose and poetry readings
Toni Morrison inn conversation with AS Byatt at the ICA discusses: the terrain of black women novelists; defining oneself as a writer; black American literature; the visual as starting point of the novel;...
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