BBC Literary Archive

Great Lives | Sara Pascoe on Virginia Woolf

Mrs Dalloway | BBC Radio 4 | 2016 | 27'26''

Comedian Sara Pascoe chooses the author of ‘Mrs Dalloway', Virginia Woolf. With Matthew Parris.

Icons | Virginia Woolf

BBC Two | 2019 | 13'53''

Feminist, pacifist and trailblazer Virginia Woolf subverted expectations, both professionally and personally. She broke new ground in literature, was ...

Omnibus | A Night’s Darkness, a Day’s Sail: Virginia Woolf 1882-1941

Mrs Dalloway | BBC One | 1988 | 46'12''

Including footage of Talland House, the Stephen family’s summer home, and Godrevy Lighthouse...

Drama on 3 | Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | BBC Radio 3 | 2004 | 1'02'55''

Two married couples tear each other's lives apart in a drunken brawl after a university party. For the older couple, Georg...

Icons | Virginia Woolf and feminism

Mrs Dalloway | BBC Two | 2019 | 2'56''

Lily Cole discusses 'A Room of One's Own' and the importance of Virginia Woolf's writing to feminism.

Night Waves | Landmarks – Mrs Dalloway

Mrs Dalloway | BBC Radio 3 | 2011 | 44'01''

To mark the 70th anniversary of the death of Virginia Woolf, Philip Dodd presents a special edition devoted to one of her most f...

The Essay | Minds at War: Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway

Mrs Dalloway | BBC Radio 3 | 2015 | 14'08''

Professor Gillian Beer explores how Virginia Woolf and her great novel Mrs Dalloway were shaped by the 1914-18 conflict.

To The Lighthouse

To The Lighthouse | BBC Two | 1986 | 51'37''

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 ...

In Their Own Words: British Novelists | Woolf’s use of language in ‘Mrs Dalloway’

Mrs Dalloway | BBC Four | 2010 | 4'04''

Discussions of Virginia Woolf's use of language in 'Mrs Dalloway', includ...

Mrs Dalloway (2012)

Mrs Dalloway | BBC Radio 4 | 2012 | 56'55''

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...

Mrs Dalloway (2022)

Mrs Dalloway | BBC Radio 4 | 2022 | 13'42''

To celebrate Radio 4's Modernism series, Sian Thomas reads Virginia Woolf's most celebrated novel, set over one day in 1923.

Free Thinking | Bloomsday, Mrs Dalloway and 1922

Mrs Dalloway | BBC Radio 3 | 2022 | 43'51''

A theatre company who travelled Britain in a van in 1922, how James Joyce's eyesight troubles influenced his writing of Ulys...

In Our Time | Mrs Dalloway

Mrs Dalloway | BBC Radio 4 | 2014 | 41'42''

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs Dalloway, published in 1925.

The Secret Life of Books | Mrs Dalloway

Mrs Dalloway | BBC Four | 2014 | 29'30''

Uncovering the stories behind the creation of six classic British books. Alexandra Harris shows how Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway re-...

Writing Madness

Mrs Dalloway | BBC Radio 4 | 2012 | 27'52''

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...

Mrs Dalloway’s Party

Mrs Dalloway | BBC Radio 4 Extra | 2014 | 13'42''

Mrs Dalloway runs errands and prepares to host an intriguing party. Forgotten short story read by Sylvestra Le Touzel.

Mrs Dalloway (1986)

Mrs Dalloway | BBC Radio 3 | 1986 | 1'44'51''

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...

Mrs Dalloway (2000)

Mrs Dalloway | BBC Two | 2000 | 1'33'36''

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...