The Word
Each week on The Word presenter Harriett Gilbert meets novelists, poets, playwrights, screenwriters, copywriters and book-sellers as she looks at the myriad world of writing.
Latest Edition: Tuesday, May 20th
This week it's a biography special. Harriett Gilbert talks to Peter Ackroyd about his new biography of Edgar Allen Poe, we discuss the role of a biography in bringing forgotten historical characters back to public attention.
And we find out whether the collected letters of a particular figure give you a unique insight into their personality.
Books List
Title: Poe: A Life Cut Short
Author: Peter Ackroyd
Publisher: Chatto and Windus
ISBN-10: 0701169885
ISBN-13: 978-0701169886
Title: Negro with a Hat: Marcus Garvey
Author: Colin Grant
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
ISBN-10: 0224078682
ISBN-13: 978-0224078689
Title: The Hottentot Venus: The Life and Death of Saartjie Baartman: Born 1789 - Buried 2002
Author: Rachel Holmes
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-10: 0747592845
ISBN-13: 978-0747592846
Title: The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters
Author: Charlotte Mosley
Publisher: HarperPerennial
ISBN-10: 1841157740
ISBN-13: 978-1841157740
Title: Letters of Noel Coward (Diaries, Letters and Essays)
Author: Noel Coward
Editor: Barry Day
Publisher: Methuen Drama
ISBN-10: 0713685786
ISBN-13: 978-0713685787
