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Review by:

Jane Anderson

Fay Weldon must be sick of reading about the advert she wrote for eggs (Go to work on an egg!) but her days as a copywriter in an advertising agency did her proud, as she explains to series host Michael Berkeley.

Part of her job was to find out which words registered with consumers and it helped her to write sentences where nothing was frivolous. Weldon and Berkeley rub along well and both reveal an endearing delight in using music as a means of overcoming the odd attack of writer’s block.

About this programme

Michael Berkeley's guest is best-selling novelist, playwright and screenwriter Fay Weldon, who selects excerpts from Handel's Messiah and Theodora, an extract from a Bach cantata, the opening to Act III of Wagner's Siegfried, part of Prokofiev's suite from his film music to Lieutenant Kijé, a short song by Ives and a track by her husband, poet Nick Fox, called In the Name of the Mother.

Cast and crew

Cast

Presenter

Michael Berkeley

Crew

Producer

Sarah Cropper

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