Doris Lessing - The Reluctant Heroine
Arts and culture programme. Alan Yentob meets writer and Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing, author of the influential Golden Notebook, in a film made in 2007.
Another chance to see a rare film made with writer Doris Lessing, five years before her recent death at the age of 94. Alan Yentob meets this acerbic, forthright yet warm woman, winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize for literature. Brought up in southern Africa, she took London by storm in 1950. She has believed in 'ban the bomb' and telepathy, been a Communist and a 'Free Woman', written realist novels and science fiction. She is perhaps most remembered for her raw and revealing Golden Notebook, which inspired and influenced a generation of women.
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Web exclusive: Brian Aldiss on his friend Doris Lessing
Duration: 05:37
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Doris Lessing - an outsider in Britain
Duration: 01:46
Credits
Role | Contributor |
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Presenter | Alan Yentob |
Presenter | Alan Yentob |
Participant | Doris Lessing |
Producer | Jill Nicholls |
Director | Jill Nicholls |
Series Editor | Alan Yentob |
Broadcasts
- Tue 27 May 2008 22:35大象传媒 One except Northern Ireland & Wales
- Tue 27 May 2008 23:05大象传媒 One Wales
- Tue 27 May 2008 23:35大象传媒 One Northern Ireland
- Tue 10 Dec 2013 23:20大象传媒 One except Scotland & Wales
- Tue 10 Dec 2013 23:55大象传媒 One Wales HD & Wales only
- Wed 11 Dec 2013 00:20大象传媒 One Scotland HD & Scotland only