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Open Book: Literary Landscape: John Banville and 1950s Dublin

John Banville and Dublin

10/08/2014

Literary Landscape: John Banville and 1950s Dublin

BBC Radio 4 - Open Book, Literary Landscape: John Banville and 1950s Dublin

A tour of the foggy streets, smoke-filled bars and genteel hotel tea rooms of 1950s Dublin

Books news and features with Mariella Frostrup. John Banville takes Mariella on a tour of the foggy streets, smoke-filled bars and genteel hotel tea rooms of 1950s Dublin.

In a Literary Landscape special for Open Book, Irish author John Banville, aka crime writer Benjamin Black, takes Mariella Frostrup on a tour of the foggy streets, smoke-filled bars and genteel hotel tea rooms of 1950s Dublin.

Banville explains why he was drawn to the Fifties for his Quirke series of crime fiction and discusses some of the major writers from that period - J P Donleavy, Brendan Behan, Patrick Kavanagh and Mary Lavin. Together, he and Mariella visit some of the locations that feature in Benjamin Black's Quirke novels.

Presenter: Mariella Frostrup
Reader: Owen Roe
Producer: Emma Harding.

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