Writing
Miss Pym's Day Out: Bookmark. Video, 47 minutes
Dramatised documentary about the writer Barbara Pym.
- AttributionBBC Four
- Available for 1 month
Desert Island Discs. Christabel Bielenberg. Audio, 40 minutes
Sue Lawley's castaway is writer Christabel Bielenberg
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Desert Island Discs. Sir Peregrine Worsthorne. Audio, 40 minutes
Sue Lawley's castaway is newspaper columnist Sir Peregrine Worsthorne
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Desert Island Discs. Lady Soames. Audio, 40 minutes
Sue Lawley's castaway is the writer Mary Soames
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Spice Taxi. The Road by Wole Soyinka. Audio, 30 minutes
"What else do you do with a language that is not really your own?"
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Spice Taxi. Ellen Kuzwayo. Audio, 30 minutes
Interview with South African author and activist Ellen Kuzwayo
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
African Perspective. Jack Mapanje. Audio, 30 minutes
Interview with Malawian writer Jack Mapanje as he takes up a fellowship at York University
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Desert Island Discs. J G Ballard. Audio, 40 minutes
Sue Lawley's castaway is writer J G Ballard
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Desert Island Discs. Sue Townsend. Audio, 40 minutes
Sue Lawley's castaway is writer Sue Townsend
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Spice Taxi. Writing in Creo. Audio, 30 minutes
Writer Earnshaw Palmer and Nigerian glass sculptor Maria Amidu
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Desert Island Discs. Bernice Rubens. Audio, 40 minutes
Sue Lawley's castaway is writer Bernice Rubens
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Desert Island Discs. A S Byatt. Audio, 40 minutes
Sue Lawley's castaway is novelist A S Byatt
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Desert Island Discs. Cecil Lewis. Audio, 40 minutes
Sue Lawley's castaway is writer and explorer Cecil Lewis
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Spice Taxi. African Writers' Inspirations. Audio, 30 minutes
Ama Ata Aidoo, Chenjerai Hove and Cyprian Ekwensi talk about what inspires them to write
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Arts and Africa. MG Vassanji and Syl Cheney-Coker. Audio, 30 minutes
Physicist M.G. Vassanji and poet Syl Cheney-Coker have both published their first novels
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Desert Island Discs. Molly Keane. Audio, 40 minutes
Sue Lawley's castaway is writer Molly Keane
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Arts and Africa. Interview with Taban Lo Liyong. Audio, 30 minutes
Taban Lo Liyong talks about his life, his career and the role of arts in politics
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Arts and Africa. Profile of Henri Lopes. Audio, 29 minutes
Looking at the life and work of Congolese writer Henri Lopes
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Behind the Screen. Carla Lane. Video, 8 minutes
Nell Mullarkey meets the highly successful comedy writer Carla Lane. (1989)
- AttributionBBC Two
- Available for over a year
African Perspective. Nigerian Author Chinua Achebe. Audio, 31 minutes
On writing fiction and children's books, Nigerian politics and religion
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
The Strange Affair of... Frankenstein. Video, 30 minutes
Robert Symes investigates the background to Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein. (1986)
- AttributionBBC
- Available for over a year
Pablo Neruda. Audio, 28 minutes
Son of a railway worker, Nobel prize winner, observer extraordinaire, and a man of hope
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year