Jim Naughtie talks with Pat Barker about her new book Noonday.

Adaptation of Pat Barker's prizewinning novel. Psychiatrist William Rivers is troubled when war hero Siegfried Sassoon is declared mentally ill for making an anti-war comment. Show more

Andrew Marr at the Edinburgh Festivals with award-winning authors Pat Barker, Sjon and James Robertson, and singer-songwriter Karine Polwart. Show more

Booker winner Pat Barker, author of Regeneration and Life Class, talks in depth to Mariella Frostup about her life, work, new novel Noonday and writing about men, women and war. Show more

Waking alone after her first terrifying night as slave to the great Achilles, Briseis is compelled to leave her new quarters and walk on the beach, visible through an open door. Show more

An old man arrives at the Greek camp. He is a priest of Apollo and also father to Chryseis - the girl taken by Agamemnon as his prize. The Greeks gather to hear his plea. Show more

Chryseis has been set free in order to appease Apollo and end the plague. And so Briseis finds herself allocated as consolation prize to Agamemnon, known for his brutal cruelty. Show more

A brilliant and brutal version of Homer's Iliad from the point of view of captured queen Briseis, given as a prize to Achilles. Pat Barker gives voice to the silenced women. Show more

Greek soldiers are dying of the plague, which they all believe is sent by Apollo. Achilles demands that King Agamemnon takes action. Show more

Arts news, interviews and reviews. Samira Ahmed talks to actor Dan Stevens, who has gone from Downton Abbey to Hollywood, where he is starring in new horror film The Guest. Show more

Jane Campion's TV drama Top of the Lake; Rachel Joyce on her new book Perfect; poems about cricket; Pat Barker's Cultural Exchange - Benjamin Britten's Who Are These Children? Show more

Sue Lawley's castaway is novelist Pat Barker. Show more