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Muriel Spark on poetry, autobiography and eternal life | The Booker Prize
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1981, Loitering with Intent by Muriel Spark is an expertly crafted novel on art and artifice, one which delicately explores the ethical demands and constraints of authorship. In archive clips, we discover the novel through Spark's own words, as well as learning more about her poetic vision and where she found inspiration for her writing
Find out more about our August Book of the Month: https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/features/book-of-the-month-loitering-with-intent-by-muriel-spark
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published: 18 Aug 2023
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark | Book Review [CC]
My review for Muriel Spark's The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, the story of an eccentric school teacher and her pupils.
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published: 16 Apr 2023
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Muriel Spark - The ELUSIVE SPARK BBC Ex-S & BBC Bookmark Film
Dame Muriel Spark was brought up to believe she was a poet and a dreamer. A writer of international renown, and the author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, she rarely gave interviews or allowed glimpses into her private life. After much consultation she was persuaded to be interviewed in her Italian home by her fellow writer and biographer Alan Taylor.
With extracts from:
Curriculum Vitae
The Girls of Slender Means
Emily Bronte, Her Life and Work
Loitering With Intent
The Seraph and the Zambezi
The Comforters
Memento Mori
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
The Drivers Seat
The Portobello Road
Contributors:
Professor David Lodge, Novelist and Critic
Dr Ruth Whittaker, Critic
Frances Cowell, School Friend
Doris Lessing, Novelist
Neville Braybrooke, Writer and Friend
Written and Narrated by A...
published: 29 Jan 2021
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A Celebration of Muriel Spark
A Celebration of Muriel Spark with Rivka Galhen, Joseph O'Neill, Gerald Howard and Joseph Kanon. A tribute reading to celebrate the centenary of Muriel Spark, "whose wit produced effects and insights only matched in contemporary fiction by the glittering jests of Nabokov," wrote Shirley Hazzard. Recorded February 1, 2018, at 92nd Street Y.
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published: 14 Feb 2018
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1961: MURIEL SPARK at the BRONTË HOME CEMETERY | Bookstand | Writers & Wordsmiths | BBC Archive
"Life, death and eternity. These were Emily's great themes."
Novelist, poet and self-confessed graveyard fan Muriel Spark visits the cemetery adjoining the Brontë home in Haworth. She imagines how these surroundings may have influenced Emily Brontë's writing.
"This graveyard here at Haworth was one of the very first things
that Emily Brontë ever saw. And she saw this churchyard
and the tombs and the everlasting
moors beyond it. No wonder she had
a sense of eternity."
"In Wuthering Heights, her two characters, Cathy and Heathcliff have a love that endures
beyond the grave."
"She was a woman with a vision
of a dark, essential world hidden within the world
of appearances."
Originally broadcast 16 April, 1961.
You have now entered the BBC Archive, a time machine that will tran...
published: 22 Apr 2023
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Muriel Spark tells a joke
While watching a documentary on the German composer Hans Werner Henze, directed by Michael Blackwood, our publisher, Barbara Epler, spotted a familiar face: none other than Muriel Spark, sitting among Alberto Moravio and Ingeborg Bachmann at a dinner party, telling a funny story. It is nothing short of a great victory to see Spark here as she was: sharp, witty, mischievous, wicked—gleefully holding court amongst fellow writers and artists.
published: 27 Jun 2017
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Muriel Spark: The Bachelors & The Ballad of Peckham Rye
Both of these books came out in 1960, but they could not be more different. Here's my brief review.
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published: 22 Mar 2017
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Sandy Moffat on Dame Muriel Spark
Sandy Moffat talks about his experience of painting a portrait of Dame Muriel Spark, Scottish novelist and author of 'The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie' and 'The Girls of Slender Means'.
published: 01 Feb 2012
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Ninety-Nine Novels: Two Novels by Muriel Spark
In 1984, Anthony Burgess published Ninety-Nine Novels, a selection of his favourite novels in English since 1939. The list is typically idiosyncratic, and shows the breadth of Burgess's interest in fiction. This podcast, by the International Anthony Burgess Foundation, explores the novels on Burgess's list with the help of writers, critics and other special guests.
In this episode, Andrew Biswell of the Burgess Foundation speaks to writer and editor Alan Taylor about two novels by Muriel Spark: The Girls of Slender Means and The Mandelbaum Gate.
Born in 1918, Muriel Spark was a novelist, poet, essayist and biographer. Her novels are celebrated as pioneering works of postmodernism and she was twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize. She is best known for The Prime of Miss Jean Brody, ...
published: 12 Oct 2022
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Edinburgh pays tribute to Muriel Spark, one of Britain's greatest writers
Edinburgh (UK), Feb 19 (EFE), (Camera: Remei Calabuig).- "She wasn't a person to whom things happen. She did all the happenings," is the sentence from one of Muriel Spark’s novels that could define her personality. Considered one of the brightest stars of British literature in the the 20th century, Edinburgh is paying tribute to her on the centenary of her birth.
Keywords: efe,edinburgh,literature,centenary,muriel,spark
published: 20 Feb 2018
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Muriel Spark on poetry, autobiography and eternal life | The Booker Prize
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1981, Loitering with Intent by Muriel Spark is an expertly crafted novel on art and artifice, one which delicately explores ...
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1981, Loitering with Intent by Muriel Spark is an expertly crafted novel on art and artifice, one which delicately explores the ethical demands and constraints of authorship. In archive clips, we discover the novel through Spark's own words, as well as learning more about her poetic vision and where she found inspiration for her writing
Find out more about our August Book of the Month: https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/features/book-of-the-month-loitering-with-intent-by-muriel-spark
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The Booker Prize is the leading literary award in the English speaking world, and has brought recognition, reward and readership to outstanding fiction for over five decades. Each year, the prize is awarded to what is, in the opinion of the judges, the best novel of the year written in English and published in the UK and Ireland.
Previous winners include The Testaments by Margaret Atwood, Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie, The Promise by Damon Galgut, Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally, Life of Pi by Yann Martel, The Bone People by Keri Hulme and many more.
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Shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1981, Loitering with Intent by Muriel Spark is an expertly crafted novel on art and artifice, one which delicately explores the ethical demands and constraints of authorship. In archive clips, we discover the novel through Spark's own words, as well as learning more about her poetic vision and where she found inspiration for her writing
Find out more about our August Book of the Month: https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/features/book-of-the-month-loitering-with-intent-by-muriel-spark
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The Booker Prize is the leading literary award in the English speaking world, and has brought recognition, reward and readership to outstanding fiction for over five decades. Each year, the prize is awarded to what is, in the opinion of the judges, the best novel of the year written in English and published in the UK and Ireland.
Previous winners include The Testaments by Margaret Atwood, Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie, The Promise by Damon Galgut, Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally, Life of Pi by Yann Martel, The Bone People by Keri Hulme and many more.
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- published: 18 Aug 2023
- views: 3628
10:34
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark | Book Review [CC]
My review for Muriel Spark's The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, the story of an eccentric school teacher and her pupils.
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My review for Muriel Spark's The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, the story of an eccentric school teacher and her pupils.
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- published: 16 Apr 2023
- views: 4064
49:53
Muriel Spark - The ELUSIVE SPARK BBC Ex-S & BBC Bookmark Film
Dame Muriel Spark was brought up to believe she was a poet and a dreamer. A writer of international renown, and the author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, she...
Dame Muriel Spark was brought up to believe she was a poet and a dreamer. A writer of international renown, and the author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, she rarely gave interviews or allowed glimpses into her private life. After much consultation she was persuaded to be interviewed in her Italian home by her fellow writer and biographer Alan Taylor.
With extracts from:
Curriculum Vitae
The Girls of Slender Means
Emily Bronte, Her Life and Work
Loitering With Intent
The Seraph and the Zambezi
The Comforters
Memento Mori
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
The Drivers Seat
The Portobello Road
Contributors:
Professor David Lodge, Novelist and Critic
Dr Ruth Whittaker, Critic
Frances Cowell, School Friend
Doris Lessing, Novelist
Neville Braybrooke, Writer and Friend
Written and Narrated by Alan Taylor
Readings: Tamara Kennedy, John Murtagh
Rostrum Camera: Malcolm Paris
Film Camera: Garry Morrison, Tony Cowan
Camera Assistants: Chris Burns, Gordon Gronbach
Sound Recordist: Mike Thomas
Production Manager: Joan Raba
Researcher (Italy): Regina Sansalone
Assistant Producer: Mark Downie
On-Line Editor: Chris Mason
Dubbing Mixers: Bronek Korda, Derek Livesey
Film Editor: Jan Leman
Producer: May Miller
Director: Eleanor Yule
Bookmark Series Editor: Roland Keating
BBC MCMXCVI
For more information please visit:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/nov/16/appointment-in-arezzo-by-alan-taylor-review-the-truth-about-muriel-
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/in-her-own-words-muriel-spark-at-100-1.3372282
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Dame Muriel Spark was brought up to believe she was a poet and a dreamer. A writer of international renown, and the author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, she rarely gave interviews or allowed glimpses into her private life. After much consultation she was persuaded to be interviewed in her Italian home by her fellow writer and biographer Alan Taylor.
With extracts from:
Curriculum Vitae
The Girls of Slender Means
Emily Bronte, Her Life and Work
Loitering With Intent
The Seraph and the Zambezi
The Comforters
Memento Mori
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
The Drivers Seat
The Portobello Road
Contributors:
Professor David Lodge, Novelist and Critic
Dr Ruth Whittaker, Critic
Frances Cowell, School Friend
Doris Lessing, Novelist
Neville Braybrooke, Writer and Friend
Written and Narrated by Alan Taylor
Readings: Tamara Kennedy, John Murtagh
Rostrum Camera: Malcolm Paris
Film Camera: Garry Morrison, Tony Cowan
Camera Assistants: Chris Burns, Gordon Gronbach
Sound Recordist: Mike Thomas
Production Manager: Joan Raba
Researcher (Italy): Regina Sansalone
Assistant Producer: Mark Downie
On-Line Editor: Chris Mason
Dubbing Mixers: Bronek Korda, Derek Livesey
Film Editor: Jan Leman
Producer: May Miller
Director: Eleanor Yule
Bookmark Series Editor: Roland Keating
BBC MCMXCVI
For more information please visit:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/nov/16/appointment-in-arezzo-by-alan-taylor-review-the-truth-about-muriel-
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/in-her-own-words-muriel-spark-at-100-1.3372282
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Appointment-Arezzo-friendship-Muriel-Spark/dp/1846974674/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
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- published: 29 Jan 2021
- views: 25689
1:10:33
A Celebration of Muriel Spark
A Celebration of Muriel Spark with Rivka Galhen, Joseph O'Neill, Gerald Howard and Joseph Kanon. A tribute reading to celebrate the centenary of Muriel Spark, "...
A Celebration of Muriel Spark with Rivka Galhen, Joseph O'Neill, Gerald Howard and Joseph Kanon. A tribute reading to celebrate the centenary of Muriel Spark, "whose wit produced effects and insights only matched in contemporary fiction by the glittering jests of Nabokov," wrote Shirley Hazzard. Recorded February 1, 2018, at 92nd Street Y.
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A Celebration of Muriel Spark with Rivka Galhen, Joseph O'Neill, Gerald Howard and Joseph Kanon. A tribute reading to celebrate the centenary of Muriel Spark, "whose wit produced effects and insights only matched in contemporary fiction by the glittering jests of Nabokov," wrote Shirley Hazzard. Recorded February 1, 2018, at 92nd Street Y.
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- published: 14 Feb 2018
- views: 7468
3:31
1961: MURIEL SPARK at the BRONTË HOME CEMETERY | Bookstand | Writers & Wordsmiths | BBC Archive
"Life, death and eternity. These were Emily's great themes."
Novelist, poet and self-confessed graveyard fan Muriel Spark visits the cemetery adjoining the Bro...
"Life, death and eternity. These were Emily's great themes."
Novelist, poet and self-confessed graveyard fan Muriel Spark visits the cemetery adjoining the Brontë home in Haworth. She imagines how these surroundings may have influenced Emily Brontë's writing.
"This graveyard here at Haworth was one of the very first things
that Emily Brontë ever saw. And she saw this churchyard
and the tombs and the everlasting
moors beyond it. No wonder she had
a sense of eternity."
"In Wuthering Heights, her two characters, Cathy and Heathcliff have a love that endures
beyond the grave."
"She was a woman with a vision
of a dark, essential world hidden within the world
of appearances."
Originally broadcast 16 April, 1961.
You have now entered the BBC Archive, a time machine that will transport you back to the golden age of TV to educate, entertain and enlighten you with classic clips from the BBC vaults.
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"Life, death and eternity. These were Emily's great themes."
Novelist, poet and self-confessed graveyard fan Muriel Spark visits the cemetery adjoining the Brontë home in Haworth. She imagines how these surroundings may have influenced Emily Brontë's writing.
"This graveyard here at Haworth was one of the very first things
that Emily Brontë ever saw. And she saw this churchyard
and the tombs and the everlasting
moors beyond it. No wonder she had
a sense of eternity."
"In Wuthering Heights, her two characters, Cathy and Heathcliff have a love that endures
beyond the grave."
"She was a woman with a vision
of a dark, essential world hidden within the world
of appearances."
Originally broadcast 16 April, 1961.
You have now entered the BBC Archive, a time machine that will transport you back to the golden age of TV to educate, entertain and enlighten you with classic clips from the BBC vaults.
Make sure you subscribe so that you never miss a single stop on our amazing journey through the BBC Archive - https://www.youtube.com/c/BBCArchive?sub_confirmation=1
- published: 22 Apr 2023
- views: 11928
1:47
Muriel Spark tells a joke
While watching a documentary on the German composer Hans Werner Henze, directed by Michael Blackwood, our publisher, Barbara Epler, spotted a familiar face: non...
While watching a documentary on the German composer Hans Werner Henze, directed by Michael Blackwood, our publisher, Barbara Epler, spotted a familiar face: none other than Muriel Spark, sitting among Alberto Moravio and Ingeborg Bachmann at a dinner party, telling a funny story. It is nothing short of a great victory to see Spark here as she was: sharp, witty, mischievous, wicked—gleefully holding court amongst fellow writers and artists.
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While watching a documentary on the German composer Hans Werner Henze, directed by Michael Blackwood, our publisher, Barbara Epler, spotted a familiar face: none other than Muriel Spark, sitting among Alberto Moravio and Ingeborg Bachmann at a dinner party, telling a funny story. It is nothing short of a great victory to see Spark here as she was: sharp, witty, mischievous, wicked—gleefully holding court amongst fellow writers and artists.
- published: 27 Jun 2017
- views: 13337
4:04
Muriel Spark: The Bachelors & The Ballad of Peckham Rye
Both of these books came out in 1960, but they could not be more different. Here's my brief review.
Get 'The Ballad of Peckham Rye' from Amazon here:
http://am...
Both of these books came out in 1960, but they could not be more different. Here's my brief review.
Get 'The Ballad of Peckham Rye' from Amazon here:
http://amzn.to/2i6GrcD
and 'The Bachelors' here:
http://amzn.to/2Ac6P9v
Find me on Goodreads here:
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/18927789.Christopher_Walker
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Both of these books came out in 1960, but they could not be more different. Here's my brief review.
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and 'The Bachelors' here:
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- published: 22 Mar 2017
- views: 1102
1:35
Sandy Moffat on Dame Muriel Spark
Sandy Moffat talks about his experience of painting a portrait of Dame Muriel Spark, Scottish novelist and author of 'The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie' and 'The Gi...
Sandy Moffat talks about his experience of painting a portrait of Dame Muriel Spark, Scottish novelist and author of 'The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie' and 'The Girls of Slender Means'.
https://wn.com/Sandy_Moffat_On_Dame_Muriel_Spark
Sandy Moffat talks about his experience of painting a portrait of Dame Muriel Spark, Scottish novelist and author of 'The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie' and 'The Girls of Slender Means'.
- published: 01 Feb 2012
- views: 4497
53:59
Ninety-Nine Novels: Two Novels by Muriel Spark
In 1984, Anthony Burgess published Ninety-Nine Novels, a selection of his favourite novels in English since 1939. The list is typically idiosyncratic, and shows...
In 1984, Anthony Burgess published Ninety-Nine Novels, a selection of his favourite novels in English since 1939. The list is typically idiosyncratic, and shows the breadth of Burgess's interest in fiction. This podcast, by the International Anthony Burgess Foundation, explores the novels on Burgess's list with the help of writers, critics and other special guests.
In this episode, Andrew Biswell of the Burgess Foundation speaks to writer and editor Alan Taylor about two novels by Muriel Spark: The Girls of Slender Means and The Mandelbaum Gate.
Born in 1918, Muriel Spark was a novelist, poet, essayist and biographer. Her novels are celebrated as pioneering works of postmodernism and she was twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize. She is best known for The Prime of Miss Jean Brody, which was adapted for the screen in 1969. She lived in Edinburgh, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), New York, Rome, and latterly in Tuscany, where she died in 2006.
Alan Taylor is the author of Appointment in Arezzo: A Friendship with Muriel Spark. In 2018, he was the series editor of Spark’s Collected Novels, published by Polygon to celebrate her centenary. He was the founding editor of the Scottish Review of Books and the Managing Editor of the Scotsman. He is a long-standing member of the Scottish team on BBC Radio 4’s Round Britain Quiz. Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman, edited by Alan Taylor, is out now.
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BOOKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE
By Muriel Spark:
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961)
Loitering with Intent (1981)
By others:
Macbeth by William Shakespeare (1606)
The Ballad of Sir Patrick Spens (Anonymous, 1765)
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (1867)
The Wreck of the Deutschland by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1918)
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh (1945)
The End of the Affair by Graham Greene (1951)
Tremor of Intent by Anthony Burgess (1966)
The Clockwork Testament by Anthony Burgess (1974)
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John Le Carré (1974)
A Perfect Spy by John Le Carré (1986)
Muriel Spark: The Biography by Martin Stannard (2009)
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LINKS
Madly, Deeply: The Alan Rickman Diaries, edited by Alan Taylor (Canongate): https://canongate.co.uk/books/3849-madly-…-rickman-diaries/
The Complete Muriel Spark at Polygon: https://birlinn.co.uk/contributor/muriel-spark/
Appointment in Arezzo: A Friendship with Muriel Spark by Alan Taylor (Polygon): https://birlinn.co.uk/product/appointment-in-arezzo-2/
The Assassin's Cloak: An Anthology of the World's Best Diarists, edited by Irene and Alan Taylor (Canongate): https://bit.ly/AssassinsCloak
International Anthony Burgess Foundation: https://www.anthonyburgess.org
The theme music is Anthony Burgess's Concerto for Flute, Strings and Piano in D Minor. It is performed by No Dice Collective: https://nodicecollective.com
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https://wn.com/Ninety_Nine_Novels_Two_Novels_By_Muriel_Spark
In 1984, Anthony Burgess published Ninety-Nine Novels, a selection of his favourite novels in English since 1939. The list is typically idiosyncratic, and shows the breadth of Burgess's interest in fiction. This podcast, by the International Anthony Burgess Foundation, explores the novels on Burgess's list with the help of writers, critics and other special guests.
In this episode, Andrew Biswell of the Burgess Foundation speaks to writer and editor Alan Taylor about two novels by Muriel Spark: The Girls of Slender Means and The Mandelbaum Gate.
Born in 1918, Muriel Spark was a novelist, poet, essayist and biographer. Her novels are celebrated as pioneering works of postmodernism and she was twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize. She is best known for The Prime of Miss Jean Brody, which was adapted for the screen in 1969. She lived in Edinburgh, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), New York, Rome, and latterly in Tuscany, where she died in 2006.
Alan Taylor is the author of Appointment in Arezzo: A Friendship with Muriel Spark. In 2018, he was the series editor of Spark’s Collected Novels, published by Polygon to celebrate her centenary. He was the founding editor of the Scottish Review of Books and the Managing Editor of the Scotsman. He is a long-standing member of the Scottish team on BBC Radio 4’s Round Britain Quiz. Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman, edited by Alan Taylor, is out now.
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BOOKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE
By Muriel Spark:
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961)
Loitering with Intent (1981)
By others:
Macbeth by William Shakespeare (1606)
The Ballad of Sir Patrick Spens (Anonymous, 1765)
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (1867)
The Wreck of the Deutschland by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1918)
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh (1945)
The End of the Affair by Graham Greene (1951)
Tremor of Intent by Anthony Burgess (1966)
The Clockwork Testament by Anthony Burgess (1974)
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John Le Carré (1974)
A Perfect Spy by John Le Carré (1986)
Muriel Spark: The Biography by Martin Stannard (2009)
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LINKS
Madly, Deeply: The Alan Rickman Diaries, edited by Alan Taylor (Canongate): https://canongate.co.uk/books/3849-madly-…-rickman-diaries/
The Complete Muriel Spark at Polygon: https://birlinn.co.uk/contributor/muriel-spark/
Appointment in Arezzo: A Friendship with Muriel Spark by Alan Taylor (Polygon): https://birlinn.co.uk/product/appointment-in-arezzo-2/
The Assassin's Cloak: An Anthology of the World's Best Diarists, edited by Irene and Alan Taylor (Canongate): https://bit.ly/AssassinsCloak
International Anthony Burgess Foundation: https://www.anthonyburgess.org
The theme music is Anthony Burgess's Concerto for Flute, Strings and Piano in D Minor. It is performed by No Dice Collective: https://nodicecollective.com
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- published: 12 Oct 2022
- views: 961
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Edinburgh pays tribute to Muriel Spark, one of Britain's greatest writers
Edinburgh (UK), Feb 19 (EFE), (Camera: Remei Calabuig).- "She wasn't a person to whom things happen. She did all the happenings," is the sentence from one of Mu...
Edinburgh (UK), Feb 19 (EFE), (Camera: Remei Calabuig).- "She wasn't a person to whom things happen. She did all the happenings," is the sentence from one of Muriel Spark’s novels that could define her personality. Considered one of the brightest stars of British literature in the the 20th century, Edinburgh is paying tribute to her on the centenary of her birth.
Keywords: efe,edinburgh,literature,centenary,muriel,spark
https://wn.com/Edinburgh_Pays_Tribute_To_Muriel_Spark,_One_Of_Britain's_Greatest_Writers
Edinburgh (UK), Feb 19 (EFE), (Camera: Remei Calabuig).- "She wasn't a person to whom things happen. She did all the happenings," is the sentence from one of Muriel Spark’s novels that could define her personality. Considered one of the brightest stars of British literature in the the 20th century, Edinburgh is paying tribute to her on the centenary of her birth.
Keywords: efe,edinburgh,literature,centenary,muriel,spark
- published: 20 Feb 2018
- views: 841