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"Virginia Woolf" (22 results)
Including footage of Talland House, the Stephen family’s summer home, and Godrevy Lighthouse...
Comedian Sara Pascoe chooses the author of ‘Mrs Dalloway', Virginia Woolf. With Matthew Parris.
Two married couples tear each other's lives apart in a drunken brawl after a university party. For the older couple, Georg...
Professor Gillian Beer explores how Virginia Woolf and her great novel Mrs Dalloway were shaped by the 1914-18 conflict.
Dramatised for radio by Michelene Wandor, Virginia Woolf's classic novel set on a single day in June. Lives interweave on the streets of London as Claris...
To celebrate Radio 4's Modernism series, Sian Thomas reads Virginia Woolf's most celebrated novel, set over one day in 1923.
A theatre company who travelled Britain in a van in 1922, how James Joyce's eyesight troubles influenced his writing of Ulys...
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs Dalloway, published in 1925.
To mark the 70th anniversary of the death of Virginia Woolf, Philip Dodd presents a special edition devoted to one of her most f...
Uncovering the stories behind the creation of six classic British books. Alexandra Harris shows how Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway re-...
Vivienne Parry takes her diagnoses of literary heroines into the 20th century and the age of Freud, the Great War and the explosion of the 'sciences of the m...
Drama based on the novel by Virginia Woolf, starring Rosemary Harris and Michael Gough. In 1912, the Ramseys are enjoying a special summer and a memorable ...
Bernardine Evaristo loathed Woolf's To the Lighthouse as a teenager. But when she read Mrs Dalloway a few year...
Mrs Dalloway runs errands and prepares to host an intriguing party. Forgotten short story read by Sylvestra Le Touzel.
Clarissa Dalloway, a successful hostess and wife of a politician, is giving a party. Life and death, sanity and insanity, memories of friendship, love an...
As politicians wife Clarissa Dalloway prepares for a society gathering at her home in 1920s London, she muses over her past, wondering whether she has ma...
What made Joyce choose to set his “odyssey” within these confines? And what has been the cultural impact and long afterlife of the one-day ...
The two founders of Black Girls Book Club, Natalie Carter and Melissa Cummings-Quarry, talk about their favourite...
Melvyn Bragg examines the movement that embraced Joyce, DH Lawrence and Virginia Woolf.
When Jeanette Winterson compared herself to Virginia Woolf, was she right or just being arrogant? HARDtalk finds out.
Miriam Margolyes, Mark Haddon and Harriett Gilbert on books by Charles Dickens, Virginia Woolf and Truman Capote.
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