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Sounds interesting. Is there a way to download it as a podcast?
Some great links recently Kirsten, thank you! I don't have much time to look around for these things, seems I'll be busy listening over the weekend.
J wrote: "Sounds interesting. Is there a way to download it as a podcast?"Not all their shows are available as podcasts. You can find all the BBC podcasts here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/a-z
Episode 2 brings more advice from more List AuthorsThe Invisible College
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05tkvkg
Description:
Dr Cathy FitzGerald presents a series of lessons in creative writing with help from a ghostly array of great novelists, poets and playwrights.
Episode Two features mini-lectures on character, plot and style. Graham Greene has a sore thumb, Baroness Emmuska Orczy meets The Scarlet Pimpernel on a tube platform, and Ray Bradbury fires a (metaphorical) gun.
Original music by Joe Acheson
Producer: Cathy FitzGerald
A White Stiletto production for BBC Radio 4.
Searched for the podcast again. Still nothing.
No, I don't think so. You can stream it on the web address above.
Episode 3 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05v7tjr
Description:
Dr Cathy FitzGerald presents a series of lessons in creative writing with help from a ghostly array of great novelists, poets and playwrights.
Episode Three features mini-lectures on routine, concentration and time off. Ian Fleming goes on holiday, W.B. Yeats invites everyone to the pub, and Gertrude Stein draws inspiration from cows.
Original music by Joe Acheson.
Producer: Cathy FitzGerald
A White Stiletto production for BBC Radio 4.
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Here's the description of Episode 1:
Dr Cathy FitzGerald presents a series of little lessons in creative writing with help from a ghostly array of great novelists, poets and playwrights.
In episode one, Maya Angelou faces dragons, Ted Hughes wrestles goblins, Charles Bukowski interrupts, Susan Sontag gets drunk on books, and Elizabeth Bowen catches a bad case of Henry James.
Original music by Joe Acheson
Produced by Cathy FitzGerald
A White Stiletto production for BBC Radio 4.