During his life he wrote only four novels: A High Wind in Jamaica, In Hazard, A Fox in the Attic, and The Wooden Shepherdess, and it was a struggle to write them; yet he wrote the first-ever radio play, Danger, in a single night. Once he said, "After all, writing is a life sentence". Make what you will of that.
The programme is based on his own recordings and writings and the memories of his family and friends.
Readers Robert Lang and Peter Howell
Compiled and presented by Michael Bakewell

followed by an interlude