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New Release: The Dead Days

on BBC Two England

A topical magazine of the arts.
Introduced by Alex Glasgow.

One writes about the dead days, the days that were your life, and fill you with emptiness, the places that you hare known and loved, and where your imagination is in some way or other.
A film about a young Irish novelist John McGahern who has just arrived in London, and whose latest book, The Dark, has recently been published in America and banned in Ireland.

Contributors

Presenter:
Alex Glasgow
Subject:
John McGahern
Director:
Leo Aylen
Director:
John Mapplebeck
Director:
Gavin Millar
Director:
Tristram Powell
Producer:
Melvyn Bragg

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