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- Literature
A conversation with John Updike’s biographer, Adam Begley, recorded for a Radio Open Source podcast. Begley talks about Updike’s Pennsylvania boyhood, his wives and lovers north of Boston, his children,...
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- English language and literature
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- http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/audiointerviews/profilepages/atwoodm1.shtml
Online
Extracts from a BBC radio interview with Margaret Atwood, originally broadcast on 18 November 1996 as a Meridian feature on the BBC World Service. Margaret Atwood talks to Harriet Gould about:
1) the...
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- Literature
- Distribution
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/audiointerviews/profilepages/
Online
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;...
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- Drama; Literature
- Distribution
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/audiointerviews/profilepages/
Online
Extracts from two radio interviews with American author and poet Alice Walker, whose poems and short stories typically depict the racism and sexism encountered by black women in America. Both broadcast in...
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- Literature
Ken Silverman, author of Edgar A Poe : Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance, Houdini!!!, Lightning Man : The Accursed Life of Samuel F. B. Morse, and many more, discusses the life of Edgar Allan Poe with...
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- Literature
Jane Smiley, author of Horse Heaven, Moo, and A Thousand Acres, talks to Don Swaim in 1989 about writing a book for ten years, the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, teaching writing, and her novel, The Greenlanders.
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- Literature
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- Sale, VHS (NTSC, 60 minutes), Free online
VOICES AND VISIONS is a series in which the lives and works of 13 renowned American poets are interpreted through dramatics readings, archival photographs, dance, performances and interviews. Illustrative...
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- Literature
Maya Angelou, author of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes, and The Heart of a Woman, tells how poetry cured her muteness, how she writes in the autobiographical and...
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- Literature
Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature and author of Beloved, The Bluest Eye, The Song of Solomon, Jazz, and Paradise, Toni Morrison talks about her early career, why every writer needs an editor, why she...
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- Literature
Joseph Heller saw the title of his classic novel, Catch-22, become an accepted phrase of the English language. Join Don Swaim in this 1984 conversation with Joseph Heller as they talk about writing, growing...
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