Writers at Warwick
Warwick Arts Centre has been hosting live literature events, known as 'Writers at Warwick', for over ten years. Previous speakers include Salman Rushdie, Derek Walcott, Michael Moore, Alan Bennett, Wendy Cope, Sarah Waters, Julian Barnes and Umberto Eco. This series presents the most recent recordings of the Writers at Warwick programme.
Blake Morrison, 2008
16:36 Mon 05 Jan 2009
Maureen Freely interviews Blake Morrison on his novel 'And When Did You Last See Your Father?' and the making of the subsequent film.
DownloadMichele Roberts, 2008
16:39 Mon 05 Jan 2009
Michele Roberts discusses her memoirs, 'Paper Houses: A Memoir of the 70s and Beyond.'
DownloadLee Harwood - All the Wrong Notes, 1982
16:22 Mon 05 Jan 2009
Lee Harwood reads from All the Wrong Notes and some of his other more recent work.
DownloadAn Interview with Lee Harwood, 1980
16:22 Mon 05 Jan 2009
Lee Harwood discusses his notion of the poem as shared text between poet and reader, maintaining narrative line and the importance of poetry readings and collaborations.
DownloadLee Harwood - Wish You Were Here and other poems, 1980
16:23 Mon 05 Jan 2009
Lee Harwood reads from a selection of his work.
DownloadLee Harwood - Sea Journals and other poems, 1978
16:23 Mon 05 Jan 2009
Lee Harwood reads from a selection of his poetry and prose.
DownloadAnne Stevenson - Green Mountain, Black Mountain - 1982
16:22 Mon 05 Jan 2009
Anne Stevenson reads a selection of her poems and talks about contemporary women's poetry and the use of rhyme in her work.
DownloadA L Kennedy - Indelible Acts, 2002
16:11 Mon 05 Jan 2009
A L Kennedy reads from her book of short stories and discusses the responsibility to the subject involved in biography, the problems which arise from pigeonholing authors and striking the balance between entertaining the reader and entertaining herself.
DownloadAlan Hollinghurst - The Spell, 1999
16:09 Mon 05 Jan 2009
Alan Hollinghurst reads an extract from his novel The Spell and discusses writing from a gay perspective, his tragicomic approach to life and writing, and how he came to write his first novel The Swimming-Pool Library in a desk diary.
DownloadMelvyn Bragg - The Soldier's Return, 1999
16:06 Mon 05 Jan 2009
Melvyn Bragg talks about his novel The Soldier's Return. He discusses the death of his father which inspired The Soldier's Return, his reasons for choosing to write it as a novel rather than an autobiography and gives advice on getting published.
DownloadLisa Appignanesi - Love and the Novel
16:04 Mon 05 Jan 2009
Lisa Appignanesi considers the subject of love and the novel and reads extracts from her book The Things We Do For Love. She discusses the treatment of love throughout the history of the novel, in particular the work of Henry James.
DownloadRoy Hattersley - 2000
12:25 Mon 05 Jan 2009
Roy Hattersley and discusses his life, his approach to writing and Blood and Fire, his biography of William and Catherine Booth, the founders of the Salvation Army.
DownloadLife Writing - 2000
12:25 Mon 05 Jan 2009
Why is biography so popular a form in the English-speaking world? What are its advantages and dangers? Is it true that in the case of biographies of writers and other artists, interest in the life tends to eclipse serious discussion of the work?
DownloadMaureen Freely and Jane Stevenson - 2000
12:25 Mon 05 Jan 2009
Maureen Freely and Jane Stevenson answer questions on to what extent they choose their subjects or their subjects choose them, the importance of research and the tension between accurate historical language and capturing the spirit of a conversation.
DownloadJoanne Harris - Five Quarters of the Orange, 2001
12:25 Mon 05 Jan 2009
Joanne Harris reads from her novel Five Quarters of the Orange, and discusses the family history that has inspired some of her books.
DownloadAlan Jenkins - Harm, 1999
12:25 Mon 05 Jan 2009
Alan Jenkins reads a selection of his poetry and discusses practitioners of form in the 20th century such as Auden and Eliot, how the formal aspects of poetry are a way of bringing order to life and whether happiness can inspire poetry.
DownloadGeorge Szirtes - Reel, 2005
12:25 Mon 05 Jan 2009
George Szirtes reads poems from his collection Reel and talks about the relationship between the covers of his books (paintings by his wife Clarissa Upchurch) and his poetry, taking inspiration from Greek myth and how he plans his books.
DownloadDavid Morley - Invisible Kings, 2005
12:25 Mon 05 Jan 2009
David Morley reads poems from his collection The Invisible Kings
DownloadDavid Morley - New Voices, 1991
12:25 Mon 05 Jan 2009
David Morley reads a selection of his poetry and discusses his transliterations of the poems of Osip Mandelstam.
DownloadAllen Fisher - Unpolished Mirrors, 1982
12:25 Mon 05 Jan 2009
Allen Fisher reads a selection of his poetry.
DownloadAlain de Botton - 2004
16:24 Mon 05 Jan 2009
Alain de Botton discusses status anxiety, how it operates today and how the notion of status has changed historically with Christianity and Western Philosophy.
DownloadMichael Billington, 2008
16:40 Mon 05 Jan 2009
Margaret Shewring interviews Guardian theatre critic and author Michael Billington
DownloadMichael Frayn, 2008
16:40 Mon 05 Jan 2009
Michael Frayn talks about his work, experience of the theatre and latest book 'Stage Directions'
DownloadDavid Morley reads from The Invisible Kings
12:25 Mon 05 Jan 2009
Poet David Morley reads from his latest collection The Invisible Kings.
DownloadZoe Brigley reads from The Secret
12:25 Mon 05 Jan 2009
Poet Zoe Brigley reads from her debut anthology, The Secret.
DownloadJacqueline Wilson - 2007
16:41 Mon 05 Jan 2009
Jacqueline Wilson talks about how she started writing, the origins of Tracy Beaker and the adaptation of her book The Suitcase Kid.
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