大象传媒

Award-winning novelist, John Banville, imagines an encounter between Elizabeth Bowen and John Betjeman as they meet for luncheon in a Dublin hotel during the Second World War.

Staring Miranda Richardson and Toby Jones.

As their conversation ranges over their lives, their loves, their politics, we are given a portrait of wartime Dublin and London and of the place of the artist in a world at war.

Elizabeth Bowen ...... Miranda Richardson
John Betjeman ..... Toby Jones
Isaiah Berlin ..... Nick Dunning
Goronwy Rees ..... Nicholas Murchie
Maurice Bowra ..... Gerard McDermott
Dermot ..... Miche Doherty
Noreen Colley ..... Sophie Harkness
Rosamond Lehmann ..... Maggie Cronin

Director: Gemma McMullan

First broadcast on 大象传媒 Radio 4 in February 2014