Talking To Myself

Series in which writers compose and read a letter to themselves when young.

Episode	Title	First Broadcast	Repeated	Description
01	Diana Athill	20021201		Series in which writers who have published memoirs compose and read a letter to themselves when young. Diana Athill looks back over six decades to write to her 23-year-old self.
01 OF 3	Beryl Bainbridge	20040808	20040814	Beryl Bainbridge writes a letter to the young self who appeared in her early novel Harriet Said.
02	Hilary Mantel	20040815	20040821	Novelist Hilary Mantel composes a letter to the young self featured in her memoir Giving Up The Ghost.
03 LAST	Thomas Lynch	20040822	20040828	The poet and undertaker Thomas Lynch composes a letter to the younger self who set out for Ireland from the USA aged 21.
	Andrea Ashworth	20021214		Series in which writers compose and read a letter to their younger selves. Andrea Ashworth addresses a young girl growing up in the shadow of domestic violence and neglect.
	Michael Holroyd	20021215	20021221	goes back fifty years to address a dreamy young man whose fervent wish was to disappear.
		20040821	20040828	The last in a series in which three writers send a letter to themselves. 3/3. The poet and undertaker Thomas Lynch composes a letter to the younger self who set out for Ireland from the USA aged 21.