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| Ambassadors, The | ...By HENRY JAMES. Dispatched to Europe by a rich widow, Strether sets off to save her son from the clutches of a `wicked woman'.... |
| American, The | ...By: HENRY JAMES... |
| Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) | ...Donald Macleod is joined again by John Bridcut to discuss how Britten's relationships with adolescent boys influenced the music he wrote, including his absorbing version of HENRY JAMES's darkly mysterious short story The Turn of the Screw.... |
| Bookclub | ...Irish writer Colm Toibin joins James Naughtie and readers to discuss his Man Booker shortlisted novel The Master, a fictionalised account of five years in the life of HENRY JAMES.... |
| Composer Of The Week In Venice | ...Venice's air of melancholy and decay has captured the imaginations of literary giants such as Proust, Thomas Mann and HENRY JAMES. In this final programme Donald Macleod follows the theme of Thomas Mann's novella and searches for 'Death in Venice'.... |
| Daisy Miller | ...HENRY JAMES' classic novella describes in exquisite detail the confrontation between Daisy Miller, a new independent American girl, enchanting in her spontaneity and alarming in her unpredictability, and the social codes of 19th century European society.... |
| Ideal Heroine, The | ...By Alison Joseph. It is 1894, and HENRY JAMES is devastated by the death of his great friend and fellow writer Constance Fenimore Woolson.... |
| In The Cage | ...By HENRY JAMES, dramatised by Michelene Wandor. At turn-of-the-century Mayfair, a young girl's employment as a sender of post office telegrams leads to her intense involvement in a clandestine affair. With Emily Bruni, Anna Massey and Adrian Lukis. Director Cherry Cookson. Director Cherry Cookson.... |
| New York Stories | ...Distinguished Irish professor of literature Denis Donoghue reflects on his years in New York, filtered through the perspective of the writer whose chair he holds - HENRY JAMES ... |
| Old World, New World | ...Ian Peacock explores two perspectives on Chester viewed through the eyes of ancient Rome and new America. Archaeologist Keith Matthew discusses recent findings which indicate that Rome saw Chester as more than just a fortress town, and historian John Wolfenden traces the connection between Chester and its early American visitors, particularly Nathaniel Hawthorne and HENRY JAMES ... |
| Opera On 3 | ...From this summer's Glyndebourne Festival comes Jonathan Kent's inspired production of Britten's thought-provoking opera, with its taut chamber score perfectly suited to HENRY JAMES's chilling story. Rising British star Edward Gardner conducts members of the London Philharmonic and an international cast.... |
| Performing Britten | ...7/10. His guest is the veteran director Basil Coleman, who worked closely with Britten during the 1950s. Coleman also directed the premiere of Britten's chamber opera The Turn of the Screw, based on HENRY JAMES' famous ghost story, at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice in 1954.... |
| Portrait Of A Lady, The | ...HENRY JAMES's novel, dramatised by Rachel Joyce.... |
| Portrait Of A Lady | ...The story by HENRY JAMES is read by Miriam Margolyes. Spirited American Isabel Archer is invited to England by her Aunt.... |
| Postscript | ...Five conversations in which Michael Billington talks to actors and singers about their experiences of playing the same character in theatrical and operatic productions. 1: Joan Rodgers and Andrea Gascoigne talk about playing the Governess in HENRY JAMES's `The Turn of the Screw'.... |
| Requiem For A Garden Of Eden | ...Created in 1884 by former prime minister Anthony Eden's great-uncle Frederick Eden and his wife, the garden was a heavily scented romantic haven visited by a host of writers including Marcel Proust, Jean Cocteau and HENRY JAMES. It was the backdrop to countless love affairs and quarrels, passing from the Edens to Greek royalty and ending up in the hands of the eccentric Austrian artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser who preferred nettles and brambles to roses and lilies.... |
| Rewriting Venice | ...Tonight's Twenty Minutes explores how four of Thomas Mann's peers - Byron, Marcel Proust, HENRY JAMES and Ezra Pound - have looked at Venice through prisms of their own making.... |
| Silent Reading, Silent Writing | ...Prof Gillian Beer reflects on whether literature can ever represent silence, drawing on poetry and prose from Keats, Coleridge and HENRY JAMES to Elaine Feinstein and Tony Harrison.... |
| Turn Of The Screw, The [dramatised By Neville Teller] | ...By HENRY JAMES, dramatised by Neville Teller... |
| Uneasy Relationship, An | ...Colm Toibin discusses HENRY JAMES's relationship with Ireland. The writer was always uneasy about his Irish background, although his sister Alice was a committed Parnellite.... |
| What Maisie Knew | ...Michael Bakewell's dramatisation of HENRY JAMES' classic. With David Calder, Rebecca Padley, Nicholas Farrell and Deborah Findlay ... |
| Wings Of The Dove, The | ...By: HENRY JAMES... |
| Words And Music | ...Actors Emily Bruni and Benedict Cumberbatch read poetry, including works by Byron, arch-Italophile Robert Browning and EE Cummings, who depicts numberless hordes of tourists to Italy clutching cameras. With prose from HENRY JAMES, explaining Wordsworth's enthusiasm for a particular Italian pine tree, cookery writer Elizabeth David on white truffles and American writer Eleanor Clark, who found the fountains of Rome surprisingly shocking.... |