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The Book Programme

BBC Two
on BBC Two England

For the last programme in this series Robert Robinson presents a further selection from the year's programmes.

This week Angus Wilson explains how he began to write; friends of Evelyn Waugh recall the man they knew; Edwin Brock reads one of his poems; crime writers Eric Ambler, P.D. James and Gavin Lyall compare notes at an International Crime Writers' Congress; and J.T. Edson, the best-selling British writer of Westerns, talks about his work at his home in Melton Mowbray.

Contributors

Presenter:
Robert Robinson
Interviewee:
Angus Wilson
Poet/Reader:
Edwin Brock
Guest:
Eric Ambler
Guest:
P. D. James
Guest:
Gavin Lyall
Interviewee:
J.T. Edson
Producer:
Philip Speight
Executive Producer:
Will Wyatt
Source: Radio Times

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