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Storytellers: How Many Miles to Babylon?: Archive interview: Jennifer Johnston discusses How Many Miles to Babylon?

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How Many Miles to Babylon?

BBC Radio Ulster - Storytellers, How Many Miles to Babylon?, Archive interview: Jennifer Johnston discusses How Many Miles to Babylon?

Archive interview of Jennifer Johnston discussing writing her iconic novel.

Archive interview of Seamus McKee interviewing Jennifer Johnston on her novel, How Many Miles to Babylon?

An archive interview with Seamus McKee in conversation with Jennifer Johnston where she discusses how she came to write her iconic novel, How Many Miles to Babylon?   

Jennifer Johnston remains one of Ireland’s most prolific writers.  Johnston established her reputation with a series of short prize-winning novels: The Captains and the Kings (1972), which won the Evening Standard Award for Best First Novel; The Gates (1973); How Many Miles to Babylon? (1974); Shadows on our Skin (1977), shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction; and The Old Jest (1979), winner of the Whitbread Novel Award. Later novels include: The Invisible Worm (1991) Grace and Truth (2005), This is not a Novel (2002) and Foolish Mortals (2007). 


Storytellers: How Many Miles to Babylon?

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Andrew Scott reads Jennifer Johnston's poignant 1974 novel about an unlikely friendship.

Andrew Scott reads Irish writer Jennifer Johnston's poignant 1974 novel about an unlikely friendship, set against the backdrop of the First World War.

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