Presented by Ian Hamilton The Way That You Tell It - Present, Past and Future
The recent shocking story of the Yorkshire Ripper is now a subject for literature.
The Streetcleaner by Nicole Ward Jouve is a feminist, structuralist analysis of the crime, while
Blake Morrison 's poem The Ballad of the Yorkshire Ripper uses dialect and age-old metre to examine a man's ambiguous feelings about the criminal. Melvyn Bragg 's new novel The Maid ofButtermere retells a scandalous, true story, familiar to the Romantic Poets, through the imagined life of its hero, a bogus MP. Although writing with a 20th-century voice, Bragg acknowledges the strength of tradition in his storytelling.
Christine Brooke-Rose is
England's most experimental novelist. She plays with all the reader's assumptions about time, structure and language. In novels like Amalgamemnon and Torandor, she invents imaginary voices and impish word-play to tell the history of the future.
Director ROLAND KEATING Producer ROGER THOMPSON
Executive producer NIGEL WILLIAMS