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In Their Own Words: British Novelists
- Product Code
- XA017/DVD01
- Product Type
- DVD
- Publisher
- The Open University
Description
The story of the 20th century novel in Britain, told by authors themselves.
How did working-class writers and subjects come to dominate the novel and how did minority voices enrich fiction through Post-Colonial and Feminist writing?
Great novelists talking candidly about their life and work in this three part series include Arthur Conan Doyle, H.G.Wells and E.M.Forster through to Salman Rushdie, Jeanette Winterson, Kazuo Ishiguro and Hilary Mantel.
This series includes the only recording of Virginia Woolf in existence, William Golding explaining Lord of the Flies to a room of young school pupils and J.G.Ballard, author of the controversial Crash, celebrating the beauty of the motorcar. J.R.R.Tolkien explains his obsession with plot and Ian Fleming offers insights into why the James Bond novels became pivotal in the 1960s Cool Britannia.
The programme titles are:-
Among the Ruins :1919-1939
The Age of Anxiety: 1945-1969
Nothing Sacred: 1970-1990
DVD Region 2 - will only play on Region 2 or multi-region DVD players.