William Golding - The Man Who Wrote Lord Of The Flies

Episode	First Broadcast	Description
01	20090907	Christian Rodska reads from John Carey's biography of the Nobel Prize-winning author. His debut novel, Lord of the Flies, was rejected by many publishers before going on to sell over 20 million copies in Britain alone. Drawing on a wealth of previously unpublished material from the Golding family archive, Carey explores the life and career of an often harshly self-critical novelist.
02	20090908	Christian Rodska reads from John Carey's biography of the Nobel Prize-winning author. After being demobbed in 1945, Golding returns to life as a provincial schoolteacher and begins writing in his lunch hour. After being demobbed in 1945, Golding returns to life as a provincial schoolteacher.
03	20090909	In 1961 Golding sails to America, where he contends with life as a celebrity.
04	20090910	Christian Rodska reads from John Carey's biography of the Nobel Prize-winning author. Golding fails miserably in his attempts to research his Booker Prize-winning novel, Rites of Passage. Golding fails in his attempts to research his Booker Prize-winning novel, Rites of Passage
05 LAST	20090911	Christian Rodska reads from John Carey's biography of the prize-winning author. In 1983, Golding is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.