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The Book Programme

on BBC Two England

A series of eight programmes
6: How Much Should You Tell? Robert Robinson talks to:
Antony Alpers , author of a frank biography The Life of Katherine Mansfield
Colin Middleton Murray , whose father's first wife was Katherine Mansfield and who wrote about his parents in One Hand Clapping and Shadows on the Grass
Nigel Nicolson , who described the unorthodox relationship of his parents, Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson , in Portrait of a Marriage
Sean Day -Lewis, who recently published a biography of his father C, Day Lewis.
Did any of the biographers have any qualms about how much they revealed of their subjects?
Director TONY TYLEY
Producer JOHN ARCHER

Contributors

Talks:
Robert Robinson
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Antony Alpers
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Katherine Mansfield
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Colin Middleton Murray
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Katherine Mansfield
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Nigel Nicolson
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Vita Sackville-West
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Harold Nicolson
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Sean Day
Director:
Tony Tyley
Producer:
John Archer

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