A Portrait of Nadlne Gordimer Introduced by Melvyn Bragg
' The facts ' says NADINE GORDIMER , * are always less than what really happens - the facts are just on the surface-it's what makes the facts.' Nadine Gordimer is one of South Africa's leading short story writers and novelists-a remarkable writer and compelling woman.
The mounting crisis in Southern Africa makes daily news on the front pages. Nadine Gordimer is a writer who takes us behind the headlines. In her stories she shows us the lives of South Africans, black and white, from the inside. She is not a directly political writer and yet, as she herself points out, it is through living in South Africa that she has learnt just how deeply people can be affected by their political circumstances.
MELVYN BRAGG interviewed her in London for this 2nd House production. The programme includes scenes from her work.
Something for the Time Being
The setting is Johannesburg, and a black township - around 1960.
An extract from
The Late Bourgeois World
A private school, near Johannesburg: the period is about 1970.
Film cameraman PETER BARTLETT Film editor DICK ALLEN
Producers BEN REA and TRISTRAM POWELL A 2nd House production Assistant editor TONY CASH Editor BILL MORTON Preview: page 15