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Eight programmes on novels since the war. 3: Ordeals and Fake Ordeals
1 Art is to do with the classification of illusion and the movement towards reality: my characters are very often engaged in a pilgrimage from appearance to reality which will involve an ordeal of some sort along the way.' Anthony Curtis talks to Iris Murdoch about her novels and her views of the function of the novelist in society, and considers the work of Muriel Spark and Margaret Drabble. Extracts read by ELIZABETH PROUD and GAVIN CAMPBELL Producer
FRANCES DONNEI. LY (Revised repeat)

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Read By:
Elizabeth Proud
Read By:
Gavin Campbell
Unknown:
Frances Donnei.
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