This Cultural Life

BBC Radio 4

In-depth conversations with some of the world's leading artists and creatives across theatre, visual arts, music, dance, film and more. Hosted by John Wilson.

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This Cultural Life

Episodes (147)

Feb 19th Julian Barnes
Feb 12th Imogen Cooper
Feb 5th Jonathan Pryce

This Cultural Life

Feb 19, 2026
43 minutes
39 MB

The novelist, essayist and critic Julian Barnes talks to John Wilson about his career and formative cultural influences. One of the most acclaimed and distinctive British writers of his generation, his early novels, including Metroland, A History Of The World In 10 and a Half Chapters, and Flaubert’s Parrot, established his reputation for blending fiction, factual biography and philosophical reflection. Julian Barnes won the Booker Prize in 2011 for The Sense Of An Ending, and the same year won the prestigious David Cohen Prize for Literature, awarded for a body of work. A famous Francophile, he was given the title of...

This Cultural Life

Julian Barnes

BBC Radio 4

00:00 -43:01