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Nick Clarke, Eric Wagner, Peter Stanford, Brenda Maddox
Whose Life Is It Anyway?
Hay Festival 2000,
A discussion about the relationship between biographer and subject, dead or alive. BBC broadcaster and biographer of Alistair Cooke, Clarke is joined by Erica Wagner, author of Ariel's Giftabout Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and The Birthday Letters,and Peter Stanford the historian of Catholicism, and biographer of Bronwen Astor. Maddox is the award-winning biographer of Nora Joyce, D. H. Lawrence and W. B. Yeats.