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Recording of the John Coffin Memorial Reading, which took place at the Institute of English Studies on June 16, 2016. Writer Iain Sinclair discusses the influence of Joyce’s writing on his own style of...
Extracts from a BBC radio interview with Graham Greene, English novelist, short-story writer, travel writer, playwright and screenwriter, originally broadcast on Radio 4’s A WRITER AT WORK on 15/8/1969....
Extracts from a BBC radio interview with Iris Murdoch, originally broadcast on Radio 4’s NOW READ ON on 27/10/1971. Iris Murdoch talks to Antonia Byatt about: when she started writing, the well told story...
Extracts from a BBC radio programme, WORDS FAIL ME, broadcast on 29/5/1927, in which Virginia Woolf gives a eulogy to words.
Extracts from two BBC radio interviews with the English poet, journalist and architectural critic John Betjeman. Poet Laureate in 1972, Betjeman’s popular verse celebrated architecture, but concentrated...
Extracts from a radio interview with the British poet and novelist Stevie Smith. Described as one of the most original poetic voices to emerge from the thirties, Stevie Smith’s eccentric, mischievous,...
Peter Ackroyd, author of Dickens: Public Life & Private Passion, and Dickens’ London, speaks with Don Swaim in this 1991 interview about the life of Charles Dickens. According to Peter Ackroyd, Charles...
Norman Sherry, author of The Life of Graham Greene series, speaks with Don Swaim in this 1989 interview about the life of Graham Greene. Norman Sherry shares insights into Greene’s life, who he was, and...
Two interviews, one from 1988 and one from 1992, in which Doris Lessing, author of The Fifth Child, The Golden Notebook, and several other pieces of literature, comes to talk with Don Swaim about her start...
In this 1985 interview with Don Swaim, John Fowles starts the interview by talking about the common need for writers to work a second job. It is his opinion that too many writers choose a poor second job....
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