Three talks by Elizabeth Bowen
Elizabeth Bowen has chosen three aspects of the novelist's craft - story, people, and time - to exemplify her own beliefs about the art of fiction and what the reader should expect from the novelist. The three talks will analyse and define the novelist's 'truth.'

From story and theme, Elizabeth Bowen goes on this week to discuss the people and the means that the novelist uses to give them life and to 'engage' them in the plot. She shows how the two main methods of doing this - analysis and dialogue - have been used, and how they have altered, in novels written over the last 150 years. Her illustrations are taken from works of Henry James, Dorothy Richardson, Jane Austen, E.M. Forster, and Ivy Compton-Burnett.
Illustrations read by Arthur Ridley, Robert Sansom, and Marjorie Mars