Book of the Week - William Golding - The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies
Christian Rodska reads from John Carey's biography of the Nobel Prize-winning author
Book of the Week - William Golding - The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies - Episode 1
Christian Rodska reads from John Carey's biography of the Nobel Prize-winning author, whose debut novel, Lord of the Flies, sold over 20 million copies in Britain alone.
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Book of the Week - William Golding - The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies - Episode 2
After being demobbed in 1945, Golding returns to life as a provincial schoolteacher and begins writing in his lunch hour.
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Book of the Week - William Golding - The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies - Episode 3
Christian Rodska reads from John Carey's biography of the Nobel Prize-winning author. In 1961 Golding sails to America, where he contends with life as a celebrity.
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Book of the Week - William Golding - The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies - Episode 4
Christian Rodska reads from John Carey's biography of the Nobel Prize-winning author. Golding fails in his attempts to research his Booker Prize-winning novel, Rites of Passage.
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Book of the Week - William Golding - The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies - Episode 5
Christian Rodska reads from John Carey's biography of the prize-winning author. In 1983, Golding is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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