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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,...
Film about the American novelist Philip Roth, which explores his career, from Goodbye, Columbus, through the scandalous success of Portnoy’s Complaint, and the later novels suych as Sabbath’s Theatre,...
This collection of recordings features the American writer William S Burroughs and the British-born artist Brion Gysin: the man Burroughs credited with the invention of the ‘cut-up’ literary technique....
Fifty years after winning the Pulitzer Prize, To Kill a Mockingbird remains a beloved bestseller and quite possibly the most influential American novel of the 20th Century. Behind it all was a young...
Set in William Faulkner’s home in Oxford, Mississippi, OH, MR FAULKNER, DO YOU WRITE? is a film based on a one-man play about the life of the Nobel Prize winning writer. It takes place the day after it has...
Commissioned for the Emily Dickinson International Society Conference, Oxford, in 2010. The film is designed to interpret some of the poet’s tropes including her microscopic representation of the outdoors...
DISC 1 IN THE BEGINNING The Civil War - A vivid dramatization of the war which shaped the social landscape for black Americans for centuries to come. The Plantation System - A stark portrayal of plantation...
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...
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...
This short film was commissioned for the Sylvia Plath 75th Year International Symposium ‘Creative Process and Product’ held at Oxford University in 2007. The film focuses on previously unresearched...
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