Open Book - Diana Athill, Giles Foden, John Carey, DJ Taylor and Jenny Uglow
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Mariella Frostrup and guests discuss a generally unheralded figure in the writing of a book - its editor. With Diana Athill, Giles Foden, John Carey, DJ Taylor and Jenny Uglow.
Mariella Frostrup and her guests discuss a generally unheralded figure in the writing of a book - its editor.
Mariella talks to Diana Athill, the former editor of novelists including VS Naipaul, John Updike and Jean Rhys, and herself the author of Stet, an acclaimed memoir of her life in publishing.
John Carey, the author of a recent biography of William Golding, explains how Golding's masterpiece Lord of the Flies was saved from the rejects pile - and extensively remodelled - by Golding's first editor.
The editor and writer Jenny Uglow reveals some of the tricks of her trade, and the novelists Giles Foden and DJ Taylor discuss how novelists rely on - and sometimes ignore - their editors, from Dickens to the present day.
- Broadcast on BBC Radio 4, 4:00PM Thu, 31 Dec 2009
- Available until 12:00AM Thu, 1 Jan 2099
- First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 4:00PM Sun, 27 Dec 2009
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- Duration 30 minutes
