reads excerpts from The Wooden Shepherdess which is to be published tomorrow and is the second volume of his long historical novel The Human Predicament, in which he plans to cover the years 1923-1945.
When The Fox in the Attic, the first volume of the sequence, came out 12 years ago, the author was hailed as a British Tolstoy and the book as a major event in English letters. RICHARD HUGHES's readings are preceded by part of an interview about this long-awaited new book with WALTER ALLEN, which was first broadcast on Radio 3 in the series Work in Progress.
Producer PATRICIA BRENT
(Part 2 of Radio 4's adaptation of The Fox in the Attic: next Monday: see also Arts Commentary. Friday 10.45 pm, R3)