Radio & TV

I talked about the Netflix adaptation of Lady Chatterley’s Lover on Front Row, broadcast in November 2022… Listen

I talked about DH Lawrence and reading in a way that engages directly with life’s most crucial questions on Woman’s Hour, broadcast in September 2022 … Listen

I talked about the De La Warr Pavilion, Bill Brandt, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp and Charleston Farmhouse on the BBC TV series The Art That Made Us, broadcast in April 2022Listen

I talked about my novel and Mary McCarthy’s The Group on Radio 4’s Open Book …Listen…

I talked about my novel and about female and anger and friendship with Michele Roberts on Radio 3’s Free Thinking … Listen…

I talked about Harold Bloom on Radio 4’s Front Row … Listen…

I talked about Graham Greene on The Bloomsbury Lighthouse, a programme about the Ministry of Information during the Second World War, in May 2017 …Listen…

I talked about Free Woman and The Golden Notebook on a Radio 3 Free Thinking Landmark programme about Doris Lessing …Listen…

I was Michael Berkeley’s guest on Radio 3’s Private Passions …Listen…

I talked about The Bitter Taste of Victory to Philip Adams on Australia’s Late Night Live …Listen…

I talked to the BBC History Magazine about The Bitter Taste of Victory in January 2016... Listen

The Culture Show made a programme called Wars of the Heart based on The Love-charm of Bombs, broadcast in December 2013. Here I talk to James Runcie about Henry Green in the Blitz.

I walked around Regent’s Park with Leeanne O’Donnell, talking about Elizabeth Bowen for Leeanne’s wonderful RTE documentary about Bowen in wartime, The Brits the Blitz and the Bedwarmer, broadcast in November 2015 …Listen…

I talked to The Guardian about the Prize for Creative Responses to Modernism (and modernism in general) in June 2015 …Listen…

I talked to Front Row about the wartime drama Home Fires in April 2015 …Listen…

I went on a boat ride on the Thames with George Clarke to talk about modernist architecture for an episode of Restoration Man broadcast in January 2015 …Watch…

I talked to Night Waves about The Love-charm of Bombs in January 2013 …Listen…

I talked to Women’s Hour about The Love-charm of Bombs in January 2013 …Listen…

I contributed with Alexandra Harris to an exploration of pastoral between the wars – A Darker Shade of Green – in October 2012 …Listen…