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Interview with Ruth Rendell
12/08/2004
Shots of Ruth Rendell's London home; stairs, courtyard, bookcases, the author working. Interview with Ruth Rendell, discussing her development as a writer. Mentions The Face of Tresspass, A Judgement ...
Ruth Rendell in Aldeburgh
2004
Ruth Rendell talking about her previous home in Aldeburgh, living in Suffolk, social and scientific progress, language, the Suffolk Craft Society. Shots of beach and seafront; the Suffolk Craft Societ...
Melvyn Bragg interviews Ruth Rendell
12/12/2004
Discusses writing, working as a reporter, getting published; childhood, Danish and Swedish family background, not going to university, reading; Wexford, Kingsmarkham, changes in English towns, Simisol...
Melvyn Bragg interviews Ruth Rendell
12/12/2004
[Camera on Bragg] Discusses writing, working as a reporter, getting published; childhood, Danish and Swedish family background, not going to university, reading; Wexford, Kingsmarkham, changes in Engl...
Melvyn Bragg interviews Ruth Rendell
2004
(camera on Melvyn Bragg), talking about A Judgement in Stone, morality, violence, observing human behaviour, being an obsessive person, fantasy and danger, writing for her audience, 13 Steps Down, mov...
Melvyn Bragg interviews Ruth Rendell
12/12/2004
Discusses A Judgement in Stone, morality, violence, observing human behaviour, being an obsessive person, fantasy and danger, writing for her audience, 13 Steps Down, moving house, walking around Lond...
Melvyn Bragg interviews Ruth Rendell
2004
(camera on Melvyn Bragg), talking about the importance of writing in her everyday life, publishing, public life.
Melvyn Bragg interviews Ruth Rendell
12/12/2004
Rendell discusses the importance of writing in her everyday life, publishing, public life. Shots of Rendell working at a laptop at her house in Groton, Sudbury.
Ruth Rendell and George Baker in Midhurst
10/08/2004
Interview with Ruth Rendell in Midhurst churchyard, talking about Inspector Wexford, Simisola, Road Rage, Harm Done; writing, psychology, George Baker. Rendell outside the church of St Mary Magdalene ...
Shots of woodland and interview with Ruth Rendell
24/07/2004
Walking through long grass. Interview with Ruth Rendell outside in Polstead, talking about Suffolk, taking inspiration from particular villages in the county for her books, writing about London, writi...
Ruth Rendell and PD James in conversation.
12/08/2004
Talking about the minds of crime writers, their own approaches to crime fiction, the development of the genre, female writers, guns, the writing process, Dorothy L Sayers, class, social reform, racism...
Ruth Rendell, West London and Kensal Green
2004
Junction of Lancaster Road and St Mark's road, West London. Ruth Rendell walks towards the camera and tuns into Bartle Road. Rendell on Bartle Road talking about Rillington Place, which previously sto...