Bowen and Betjeman 

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Miranda Richardson

Toby Jones

Nick Dunning

Nicholas Murchie

Gerard McDermott

Miche Doherty

Sophie Harkness

Maggie Cronin

John Banville

Gemma McMullan

Bowen and Betjeman

Drama: Biographical

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Bowen and Betjeman

An imagined wartime encounter between Elizabeth Bowen and John Betjeman in Dublin.

An imagined wartime encounter between author Elizabeth Bowen and actor John Betjeman. Stars Miranda Richardson and Toby Jones.

Award-winning novelist, John Banville, imagines an encounter between Elizabeth Bowen and John Betjeman as they meet for luncheon in a Dublin hotel during the Second World War. 

 Staring Miranda Richardson and Toby Jones.

As their conversation ranges over their lives, their loves, their politics, we are given a portrait of wartime Dublin and London and of the place of the artist in a world at war.

Elizabeth Bowen ...... Miranda Richardson
John Betjeman ..... Toby Jones
Isaiah Berlin ..... Nick Dunning
Goronwy Rees ..... Nicholas Murchie
Maurice Bowra ..... Gerard McDermott 
Dermot ..... Miche Doherty 
Noreen Colley ..... Sophie Harkness
Rosamond Lehmann ..... Maggie Cronin 

Director: Gemma McMullan

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2014

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