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When Private Lives Go Public: a panel
This week on Writers & Company - When Private Lives Go Public: a panel. From Israel and Montréal, Edeet Ravel, from South Africa and England, Justin Cartwright and Gillian Slovo, and from South Africa, Njabulo Ndebele. They talk with host Eleanor Wachtel about where the personal meets the political in their writing.
Interviews with Mark Haddon on A Spot of Bother, and P.D. James on The Children of Men
Eleanor Wachtel talks with English novelist Mark Haddon this week on Writers & Company. The author of the extraordinarily successful The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, has a new novel called A Spot of Bother. Also, crime writer P.D. James on the book behind the hit new movie Children of Men.
A tribute to Evelyn Waugh, with Selina Hastings and Alexander Waugh
To celebrate the 100th anniversary of Evelyn Waugh's birth, Eleanor Wachtel talks with his biographer Selina Hastings (re-air from 1995). She'll also talk with Evelyn Waugh's grandson, Alexander Waugh, about his grandfather and life in the Waugh family.
Biographer Selina Hastings on Evelyn Waugh, and Rohinton Mistry reads his story "The Scream"
Eleanor talks with Selina Hastings about her very successful new biography of British novelist Evelyn Waugh - the cantankerous writer famous for Brideshead Revisited. Also, award-winning Canadian writer Rohinton Mistry reads his short story "The Scream."