Lectures on character, plot and style. Graham Greene has a sore thumb, Baroness Orczy meets the Scarlet Pimpernel on a tube platform, and Ray Bradbury fires a (metaphorical) gun. Show more
Mini lectures on routine, concentration and time off. Ian Fleming goes on holiday, WB Yeats invites everyone to the pub, and Gertrude Stein draws inspiration from cows. Show more
Maya Angelou faces dragons, Ted Hughes wrestles goblins, Charles Bukowski interrupts, Susan Sontag gets drunk on books, and Elizabeth Bowen catches a bad case of Henry James. Show more