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Julian ALEXANDER

May 2008

Getting Published

Sara BAILEY

November 2004

The Birth of a Novel

Barbara BAKER

November 2007

In Conversation with Julian Fellowes about Script Writing

James BARR

February 2009

Setting the Desert on Fire

Ian BECK

February 2007

Writing for Children – 'The Magic World of Imagination'

Connie BENSLEY

February 2005

The Romance of Poetry

Robyn BOLAM

February 2005

The Romance of Poetry

Tracy BORMAN

January 2010

Scarlet Women – Mistresses in History

Sue BOYD

March 2005

In Search of Bloomsbury Writers

Justin CARTWRIGHT

October 2006

The Contemporary Novel – 'Truth as Fiction'

Victoria CLARK

November 2011

From Empire to Impotence: Britain in Yemen

Christopher COOK

February 2006

Writing for Radio

Christopher COOK

October 2008

In Conversation with Michael Frayn

John DAVIE

March 2008

Shakespeare and the Classics (with actors)

Christie DICKASON

May 2006

The Historical Novel

Margaret DRABBLE

November 2005

What Makes a Prize Wining Novel?

Susan ELDERKIN

March 2006

Where does a Writer get Ideas?

Julian FELLOWES

November 2007

In Conversation with Barbara Baker about Script Writing

Michael FRAYN

October 2008

In Conversation with Christopher Cook

Sally GAMINARA

May 2008

Getting Published

Andrew GRAHAM-DIXON

March 2010

Writing about Art

Paul GROGAN

January 2006

Traveller's Tales

Jenny HADDON

February 2011

Our Love Affair with Heroes

David HARSENT

January 2005

A Night of Crime

Jenny HARTLEY

May 2010

Charles Dickens

Ronald HARWOOD

November 2009

Taking Sides – Writing for Stage and Screen

Michael HOLROYD

October 2007

'Six Characters in Flight from an Author' – A Writer's Laboratory Experiment: discussion on a new work on Henry Irving and Ellen Terry

P.D. JAMES

October 2005

Speaking on Writing and her Novel The Lighthouse

Russell JAMES

March 2011

Our Love Affair with Villains

Tatyana KINSEY

May 2009

Great Russian Writers

Christina LAMB

March 2009

Dispatches from Foreign Lands

Lee LANGLEY

February 2010

The Lure of the Faraway

Andrew MARR

January 2008

Political Journalism - 'A Proud Trade'

Roger MCGOUGH

January 2007

Said and Done – The Poet's Tale

Deborah MOGGACH

January 2011

From Page to Screen

Santa MONTEFIORE

March 2007

Romantic Fiction - 'Exotic Escapism and Epic Romance'

Blake MORRISON

May 2011

Writing from Life: the Novel or the Memoir

Felicity NAPIER

February 2005

The Romance of Poetry

James NAUGHTIE

November 2009

Writing about Music

Patrick NEATE

November 2004

The Birth of a Novel

Maureen OSBORNE

February 2007

Writing for Children - 'The Magic World of Imagination'

Chris PATTEN

October 2009

What Next? Surviving the Twenty-First Century

Jan PIENKOWSKI

November 2010

Sacred and Profane

Victoria SCHOFIELD

May 2007

Writing Military History – 'Arms and the Man'

Anne SEBBA

January 2009

Women of Influence

Adam SISMAN

February 2008

Literary Friendships – The Poetic Friendship of Wordsworth and Coleridge

John SMITH

May 2005

Drama as Literature (with actors)

Dan SNOW

October 2010

Wellington and Wolfe

Peter SNOW

October 2010

Wellington and Wolfe

Martin STEPHEN

May 2006

The Historical Novel

Natalie STEPHENSON

November 2005

What Makes a Prize Wining Novel?

Claire TOMALIN

November 2006

The Time Torn Man – a biography of Thomas Hardy

David WALSER

November 2010

Sacred and Profane

Sam WALTERS

October 2011

Theatre – does it have a future?

Alison WEIR

January 2010

Scarlet Women – Mistresses in History

Kate WILLIAMS

January 2010

Scarlet Women – Mistresses in History

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