Bowen and Betjeman

  • Radio play by John Banville; IB played by Nick Dunning
  • First transmission: 14/2/2014, BBC Radio4
  • Duration: 45 minutes
  • Repeat: 4.15 pm, 21/3/2016, BBC Radio 4
  • Author: John Banville
  • Producer Gemma McMullan

Summary

  • Award-winning novelist John Banville imagines an encounter between Elizabeth Bowen and John Betjeman as they meet for luncheon in a Dublin hotel during the Second World War. As their conversation ranges over their lives, their loves, their politics, we are given a portrait of wartime Dublin and London and of the place of the artist in a world at war.
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B.113(a)
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