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Life with the Lid Off

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on BBC Radio 4 FM

Written and presented by Dr Roy Foster
Elizabeth Bowen (1899-
1973) once described the lunatic giant' Inside each of us as knocking and screaming to be listened to. Despite frequent comparisons with Henry James. Bowen was a writer greatly interested In the wildness of feeling and sensation contained In everyday social life and she wrote of It with wit. daring and passion. Her friends,
CHARLES RITCHIE and MOLLY KEANI , biographer VICTORIA clendinning and critic
FFERMIONE LEE discuss her personality and her writing. Producer
MARGARET WINDHAM
(' The Heat of the Day ' by Elizabeth Bowen begins next Monday, in A Book at Bedtime 11.0 pm)

Contributors

Presented By:
Dr Roy Foster
Presented By:
Elizabeth Bowen
Unknown:
Henry James.
Unknown:
Charles Ritchie
Unknown:
Molly Keani
Unknown:
Ffermione Lee
Unknown:
Margaret Windham
Unknown:
Elizabeth Bowen
Source: Radio Times

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