DEREK PARKER. in the first of two programmes compiled from the BBC Sound Archives, introduces recordings of writers talking about their craft and in particular the reasons for writing, the difficulties of technique, and the nature of inspiration
The voices and opinions include those of: E. M. Forster
Elizabeth Bowen
John Heath Stubbs
Thomas Mann
Hugh Walpole T. S. Eliot
Ezra Pound
Joyce Cary
Wyndham Lewis
Archibald MacLeish
Somerset Maugham Robert Frost
Ivy Compton-Burnett Charles Causley Ronald Bottrall
James Stephens James Kirkup Edith Sitwell
W. B. Yeats
Christopher Isherwood Rose Macaulay
Robert Browning
Produced by JOHN POWELL