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Interview with Ian McEwan
01/10/2004
McEwan discusses Michael Frayn's comic sketches in The Guardian, Frayn's novels, popularity, English comic writing, the theatre, Copenhagen.
Melvyn Bragg interviews Sarah Waters
11/12/2007
Waters discusses the differences between the lesbian and gay cultures depicted in The Nightwatch and Waters' Victorian novels, writing The Little Stranger, historical fiction and her writing process [...
Melvyn Bragg's introduction to Ruth Rendell programme, filmed in a park; several takes
29/10/2004
Man walking through woodland, watching a woman in red coat reading a Ruth Rendell novel; multiple takes. Same man making telephone call, multiple takes.
Melvyn Bragg interviews PD James
07/12/2005
Discusses public fascination with murder and death, James' literary influences, her motivations for writing, her writing process, Dorothy L Sayers, the English crime novel, writing dead bodies, Adam D...
Caryl Phillips in St Kitts
14/12/2002
Caryl Phillips at the ruins of an 18th century plantation, talking about slavery and sugar production, his novel Cambridge, class in Caribbean colonial society, the destructive legacies of colonialism...
Shots of books scattered around a windowseat in a dark room, daytime.
23/07/2004
Authors include Baudelaire, Sartre, Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath. Books and magazines on armchairs and tables in a large smoky study; books and papers piled high at a desk and on other surfaces. Shots ...