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Virginia Woolf: A Night's Darkness, A Day's Sail

BBC Two
on BBC Two England

One of the most outstanding writers and one of the most remarkable women of her time, Virginia Woolf struggled all her life with recurrent periods of madness which culminated in her suicide in 1941. This film examines her writing, and evokes her personality through the recollections of relatives and friends, among whom are her husband the late Leonard Woolf, her nephew and biographer Quentin Bell, Lord David Cecil, Duncan Grant, Raymond Mortimer and the late Elizabeth Bowen.

(First shown on BBC1 in the Omnibus series)

Contributors

Interviewee:
Leonard Woolf
Interviewee:
Quentin Bell
Interviewee:
Lord David Cecil
Interviewee:
Duncan Grant
Interviewee:
Raymond Mortimer
Interviewee:
Elizabeth Bowen
Narrator:
Gavin Millar
Film Editor:
Roger Crittenden
Director:
Julian Jebb
Source: Radio Times

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