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The documentary uses Graham Greene’s own words from his books and recordings, as well as photographs and film clips, to reveal the fascinating life of one of the great writers of the twentieth century. The...
The story of the 20th century novel in Britain, told by authors themselves. There are three 60 minute programmes where great British novelists talk about their life and work.How did working-class writers...
Published in seven parts between 1913 and 1927, Marcel Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu, in so far as it deals explicitly with a disappearing world in ways often felt to be incorrigibly nostalgic,...
The Bloomsbury Group remains of great public interest for its influence on art, literature and politics in the first half of the 20th century. Recordings of this informal association of writers, artists and...
This three-CD compilation forms part of the British Library’s series of documentary recordings by English-language authors and playwrights. 30 British writers are represented, talking about their lives and...
This three-CD set includes recordings of 27 celebrated American writers, starting from the earliest generation whose voices survive. The majority of the recordings derive from BBC radio broadcasts, in which...
The first of a pair of 2-CD sets drawn from the BBC radio broadcasts of Ted Hughes features live and studio recordings of the poet introducing and reading his own work. The recordings include his earliest...
An edited recording of a 1992 mini-festival in Dublin called ‘The Here to Go Show’, celebrating the work of William S Burroughs and Brion Gysin. The show was documented in guerilla fashion by the...
An intense drama based around the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947 and the transfer of power from British to Indian hands. Based on Saadat Hussan Manto’s famous short story about partition,...
Documentarian Richard Dindo presents an impressionistic view of the life of Franz Kafka, consisting of actors presenting the author’s personal writings as if they were documentary interviews, set against a...
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