Our guest is Stephen Fry, writer, actor and polymath, who last week joined John and Andy in person to discuss Oscar Wilde's De Profundis, the essay addressed to Lord Alfred Douglas in 1897 'from the depths' of Wilde's incarceration in Reading Gaol. Tessa Hadley on re-reading Elizabeth Bown, LRB (9 Feb, 2020) The Death of the Heart, 1987 film adaptationĬhannel 4 documentary on three Anglo-Irish sisters, 1986 Henry Green - Living, Loving, Party GoingĮlizabeth Bowen - Truth and Fiction, BBC 1956 Ivy Compton Burnett - More Women than Men Tom de Freston - Wreck: Géricault’s Raft & the Art of Being Lost at Seaĭan Baum - Nine Lives: Mystery, Magic, Death & Life in New Orleans Robert Ashton - Where are the Fellows Who Cut the Hay? George Ewart Evans - Where Beards Wag All Ask the Fellows Who Cut the Hay
We go deep into the glorious idiosyncrasies (and idiosyncratic glories) of Bowen's style and consider why her reputation has waxed and waned in the years since her death in 1973.Īlso in this episode, John celebrates his recent trip to New Orleans with a reading of Nine Lives(Random House US), Dan Baum's book about the city and Andy navigates his way round Géricault's painting ‘The Wreck of the Medusa’ using Tom de Freston's new book Wreck (Granta) as his compass.Įlizabeth Bowen - The Death of the Heart The Last September The House in Paris Eva Trout The Selected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen (edited by Tessa Hadley) Collected Stories (introduction by Angus Wilson) T he Mulberry Tree (edited by Hermione Lee)
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Tessa Hadley ( Free Love, Late in the Day) joins us for a discussion of The Death of the Heart(1938), the sixth novel by Anglo-Irish novelist Elizabeth Bowen as you'll hear, Tessa has been reading and rereading Bowen's work since she discovered it in her local library when she was 12 years old.
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New Folio Society edition of the Gormenghast Trilogy (sic), illustrated by Dave McKean and with an introduction by Neil Gaiman, it costs £745 plus P&P but knock yourselves out! Yeatman - 1066 & All Thatĭesert Island Discs, Sir Ranulph Fiennes: Victor Hugo - Les Miserables Notre-Dame de Paris Geoff Dyer - The Last Days of Roger Federer & Other Endings Mervyn Peake - Titus Groan Gormenghast Titus Alone Titus Awakes The Gormenghast Trilogy Also in this episode, Andy marks the belated UK publication of Maud Martha, the sole novel by poet Gwendolyn Brooks (Faber) while John enjoys Geoff Dyer's new book about tennis and much more, The Last Days of Roger Federer: And Other Endings(Canongate). With Joanne's expert guidance, John and Andy revisit Peake's visionary work for the first time in decades and are surprised and delighted by what they discover.
Novelist Joanne Harris ( Chocolat, A Narrow Door ) is our guest for a celebration of Titus Groan (1946), Gormenghast(1950) and Titus Alone(1959) by Mervyn Peake, three novels which are often referred to, erroneously, as T he Gormenghast Trilogy.
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