Adventures in Radio: Timberlake Wertenbaker

Scriptwriter Timberlake Wertenbaker in conversation with author and presenter Barney Norris

In this episode, acclaimed playwright, novelist and podcast host, Barney Norris talks to Timberlake Wertenbaker about her radio adaptation of Marcel Proust’s seminal 20th century novel In Search of Lost Time. What of the context? What of the challenges? What of the importance of memory and of the madeleines? Enjoy this truly brilliant conversation between Barney and Timberlake who discuss all this and more in the latest episode from the Adventures in Radio team at the Society of Authors.

Timberlake’s radio adaptation of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time was directed and produced by Celia de Wolff. It is a Pier production for BBC Radio 4. For full production credits please visit: I BBC Radio 4 – Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, Episode 1.

Show notes:

Barney Norris – Curtis Brown

Timberlake Wertenbaker | | The Agency

Radio 3 – Listen Live – BBC Sounds

BBC Radio 4 – Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time

In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust – Radio/TV Programme – Audible.co.uk

In Search of Lost Time: Volume 1: The Way by Swann’s a book by Marcel Proust, Christopher Prendergast, and Lydia Davis. (bookshop.org)

The Proust Screenplay (groveatlantic.com)

ABOUT | Pier Productions | Brighton (pierproductionsltd.co.uk)

boyce-frank-cottrell | RCW Literary Agency (rcwlitagency.com)

Written and hosted by Barney Norris.

Produced by SoA Scriptwriters Group coordinators, Sophia A Jackson and Theo Jones.

With thanks to Hawthornden Foundation who have kindly funded the Adventures in Radio podcast.

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