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Bowen and Betjeman

An imagined wartime encounter between author Elizabeth Bowen and actor John Betjeman. Stars Miranda Richardson and Toby Jones.

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 BBC Radio 4 in February 2014

45 minutes

Last on

Sat 18 May 202405:00
BBC Radio 4 Extra

Credits

Elizabeth BowenMiranda Richardson
John BetjemanToby Jones
Isaiah BerlinNick Dunning
Goronwy ReesNicholas Murchie
Maurice BowraGerard McDermott
DermotMiche Doherty
Noreen ColleySophie Harkness
Rosamond LehmannMaggie Cronin
WriterJohn Banville
DirectorGemma McMullan
ProducerGemma McMullan

Broadcasts

  • Fri 14 Feb 201414:15
    BBC Radio 4
  • Mon 21 Mar 201614:15
    BBC Radio 4
  • Fri 30 Mar 201811:15
    BBC Radio 4 Extra
  • Fri 17 May 202415:00
    BBC Radio 4 Extra
  • Fri 17 May 202421:00
    BBC Radio 4 Extra
  • Sat 18 May 202405:00
    BBC Radio 4 Extra