Arts and culture programme. Alan Yentob meets writer and Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing, author of the influential Golden Notebook, in a film made in 2007. Show more
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Woman's Hour
23/07/2014
45 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
Available for over a year
How to talk to children about their weight, the Arabic radio drama Worth 100 Men, Endurance - a new play inspired by athletes and performed by women from Glasgow, Doris Lessing. Show more
Open Book
Doris Lessing
28 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
Available for over a year
Mariella Frostrup talks to Doris Lessing about her long and extraordinarily varied writing career in this 2005 interview. Show more
Doris Lessing's 1985 satire about a band of incompetent revolutionaries and their plan to blow up a London hotel, dramatised by Sarah Daniels. Olivia Vinall stars as Alice. Show more
Doris Lessing's 1985 satire about a band of inept revolutionaries, dramatised by Sarah Daniels and starring Olivia Vinall. Jasper and Bert are in Ireland, attempting to woo the IRA. Show more
Doris Lessing's 1985 satire about a band of incompetent radicals in a London squat. Alice (Olivia Vinall) finally meets her revolutionary neighbour, the enigmatic Comrade Andrew. Show more
Doris Lessing's 1985 satire about a band of incompetent British radicals, starring Olivia Vinall and Pippa Bennett-Warner. Comrade Jocelin tests out her bomb-making abilities. Show more
Doris Lessing's 1985 satire about inept revolutionaries, dramatised by Sarah Daniels.
Front Row
Anna Friel in Lulu; 15 Minutes review; Doris Lessing; Stories of the Woods
30 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
The author Doris Lessing, winner of the David Cohen British Literature Lifetime Award, discusses her literary career with Mark Lawson. Show more
First ever dramatization of Doris Lessing's 1985 satire of incompetent revolutionaries in a London squat. Starring Olivia Vinall and Joe Armstrong, dramatised by Sarah Daniels. Show more
Doris Lessing's 1985 satire about inept revolutionaries, dramatised by Sarah Daniels. Alice continues her mission to make the squat habitable. Olivia Vinall and Joe Armstrong star. Show more
Alice is on a mission to remove the concrete from the squat's toilets and to reconnect the electricity. Meanwhile, the other members of the Communist Centre Union squabble. Show more
Doris Lessing's satire about a ragtag group of revolutionaries. Faye has cut her wrists in a suicide bid, but Alice has promised not to involve the authorities. Olivia Vinall stars. Show more
Doris Lessing's 1985 satire about wannabe British revolutionary Alice, dramatised by Sarah Daniels. Alice (Olivia Vinall) goes to visit her mother, Dorothy (Sian Thomas). Show more
Desert Island Discs
Doris Lessing
40 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
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Sue Lawley's castaway is writer Doris Lessing. Show more