The Dreams of William Golding
An insight into the private obsessions and insecurities of the author of Lord of the Flies. With contributions from his daughter and son and bestselling author Stephen King.
The Dreams of William Golding reveals the extraordinary life of one of the greatest English writers of the 20th century.
With unprecedented access to the unpublished diaries in which Golding recorded his dreams, the film penetrates deep into his private obsessions and insecurities.
His daughter Judy and son David both speak frankly about their father's demons, and the film follows Golding from the impoverished schoolmaster whose first novel, Lord of the Flies, was published when he was forty-three years old, to his winning the Nobel Prize for literature in 1983.
Other contributors include Golding's biographer John Carey, philosopher John Gray, writer Nigel Williams, the dean of Salisbury Cathedral, the Very Revd June Osborne and best-selling author Stephen King.
Benedict Cumberbatch, who starred in the 2004 大象传媒 adaptation of Golding's sea trilogy To the Ends of the Earth, reads extracts from his books.
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Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Series Editor | Anthony Wall |
| Director | Adam Low |
| Producer | Martin Rosenbaum |
| Participant | Judy Golding |
| Participant | David Golding |
| Participant | John Carey |
| Participant | John Gray |
| Participant | Nigel Williams |
| Participant | June Osborne |
| Participant | Stephen King |
| Participant | Benedict Cumberbatch |
