Writing
Desert Island Discs. P D James. Audio, 45 minutes
Sue Lawley's castaway is crime writer and conservative life peer P D James
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Desert Island Discs. Philip Pullman. Audio, 45 minutes
Sue Lawley's castaway is writer Philip Pullman
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Desert Island Discs. Minette Walters. Audio, 45 minutes
Sue Lawley's castaway is crime writer Minette Walters
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Desert Island Discs. Countess Elizabeth Longford. Audio, 45 minutes
Sue Lawley's castaway is writer Countess Elizabeth Longford
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Desert Island Discs. Jan Morris. Audio, 45 minutes
Sue Lawley's castaway is writer Jan Morris
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
African Perspective. Like Mother Like Daughter - Part Two. Audio, 29 minutes
Nigerian writers Omowunmi and Mabel Segun talk about each other's achievements
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Unavailable
Desert Island Discs. Kazuo Ishiguro. Audio, 45 minutes
Sue Lawley's castaway is writer Kazuo Ishiguro
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Profile. The World of Philip Pullman. Video, 39 minutes
Philip Pullman explores Oxford, where he was a student in the 1960s. (2001)
- AttributionBBC
- Available for over a year
Desert Island Discs. Ken Follett. Audio, 45 minutes
Sue Lawley's castaway is writer Ken Follett
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Desert Island Discs. Frank McCourt. Audio, 45 minutes
Sue Lawley's castaway is Pulitzer prize-winning writer Frank McCourt
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Agenda. Taking a World View – Interview with Noam Chomsky. Audio, 26 minutes
Noam Chomsky talks about his political writing – and what makes a "rogue state"
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Desert Island Discs. Margaret Drabble. Audio, 45 minutes
Sue Lawley's castaway is writer Margaret Drabble
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Agenda. Allegiance to Philosophy. Audio, 26 minutes
Life guides: a new wave of philosophical writing addressing the big issues of our age
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Desert Island Discs. Ronald Blythe. Audio, 45 minutes
Sue Lawley's castaway is writer Ronald Blythe
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Desert Island Discs. Sir John Mortimer. Audio, 45 minutes
Sue Lawley's castaway is writer and barrister Sir John Mortimer
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Agenda. More to Write Than Ever – Interview with André Brink. Audio, 26 minutes
Why "in the new South Africa, there's incomprabably more to write about than ever before"
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Desert Island Discs. George MacDonald Fraser. Audio, 45 minutes
Sue Lawley's castaway is writer George MacDonald Fraser
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Agenda. Literature and Writing Politics. Audio, 26 minutes
Is the pen mightier than the sword? Literature as vehicle for political thought and change
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Agenda. Armistead Maupin – Telling Stories. Audio, 26 minutes
San Francisco novelist Armistead Maupin discusses his new work about love and fatherhood
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Artbeat. Fiction in the City. Audio, 29 minutes
How writers and readers tackle the urban landscape in crime writing fiction
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Desert Island Discs. Ian McEwan. Audio, 45 minutes
Sue Lawley's castaway is writer Ian McEwan
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Harriet O'Carroll - Minuet. Audio, 60 minutes
A young Jane Austen falls in love fuelling her desire to become a writer.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4 Extra
- Available for over a year
