John McGahern
' A shadow was to fall forever on the self of my life from the morning of that room, shape it as the salt and wind shapes the trees the tea lord had planted as shelter against the sea, for in the evenings they do not sway as other trees in the cooling wind, but stay stubbornly bent away from their scourge, the sea, their high branches stripped of bark and whitened, and in the full leaf of summer they still wear that plumage of bones.'
John McGahern introduces and reads from his forthcoming new novel
With NORMAN RODWAY
Producer MAURICE LEITCH