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Rob Cowan's guest on Essential Classics this week is the writer and critic Paul Bailey, who won a scholarship to The Central School of Speech and Drama, and began his career in the mid-1950s as an actor. In 1967 he became a freelance writer. He was awarded the E.M. Forster Award in 1974 and the George Orwell Prize for his essay 'The Limitations of Despair' in 1978.
His novels include 'At the Jerusalem' (1967), which won a Somerset Maugham Award and an Arts Council Writers' Award; 'Peter Smart's Confessions' (1977) and 'Gabriel's Lament' (1986), both shortlisted for the Booker Prize; 'Sugar Cane' (1993), a sequel to 'Gabriel's Lament'; 'Kitty and Virgil' (1998), the story of the relationship between an Englishwoman and an exiled Romanian poet; 'Uncle Rudolf' (2002), in which a young boy is rescued from fascist Romania by his uncle, a gifted tenor singer; and 'A Dog's Life' (2003). His latest book is 'Chapman's Odyssey' (2011), in which the eponymous hero, lying seriously ill in a London hospital, encounters characters from literature, family members and deceased friends in his morphine-addled dreams.
Paul Bailey has also written plays for radio and TV, including a televised adaptation of Joe Ackerley's 'We Think the World of You'. His non-fiction writings include biographies of Cynthia Payne and Quentin Crisp.

9am
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: Szymon Goldberg and the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra RETROSPECTIVE 93407

9.30am
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, guitarist, Andres Segovia.

10.30am
Rob Cowan's guest on Essential Classics this week is the writer and critic Paul Bailey.