Melvyn Bragg
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1,061 appearances
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 4d ago
Melvyn Bragg’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The plays, she wrote a lot of plays, but they don't seem to have been the great money spinners of Dryden's plays, except perhaps one or two of them.
He did three a year on a contract and so on, on Congress plays, however.
What's striking about this novel?
A, did she turn to it for money?
Because she's very straightforward about what she did for money and what she didn't.
And B, what do you think of it?
During this conversation, it's to be taken for granted that she did go to Suriname in Southampton.
Do you all take that for granted?
Because it's doubted in your notes, whether or not she did go there.
Well, you three, you can all say alleged, unproved, and so on.
Why did she go to Suriname in the first place?
So to come back to this novel itself, what's most striking about it on the background?
Still on the other side, as it were, of the ocean, not of life itself, Claire, there's another late play, The Widow Ranter, set in Virginia.
Now, what's she doing there and why is she setting it in Virginia?
What's the widow ranting about?
Unassisted.
Because they're just going to marry her for her life.
Exactly, yes.
Jan, briefly, is there any way you would like to compare her, briefly, her fiction with her playwright?
Do you think she's a better novelist than a playwright?
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