Monthly Archives: April 2011

Jane Purcell: BBC Radio 4 play commission

The way that BBC Radio 4 works is that you send in an idea, jumping through about 356 hoops while you do so.  Then you wait and wait and at some point you might hear that your idea has gotten … Continue reading

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Kathleen Jones: biography of Katherine Mansfield

I first fell in love with Katherine Mansfield as a teenager, when I found an edition of her Journals in a second hand book shop in the Charing Cross Road.  Like her, I had gone to London to try to … Continue reading

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