The Resurrection of Miss Pym

SANWAL

(3.4 stars; 4 reviews)

Afternoon Play: The Resurrection of Miss Pym Tue 11th Feb 2003, 14:15 on BBC Radio 4 FM The true story of novelist Barbara Pym disappearance from the literary scene of the 1960s and her subsequent triumphant rediscovery as told through her poignant journals and correspondence. Starring Penelope Wilton as Barbara Pym. Philip Larkin:………Bill Wallis Other parts played by Kim Hicks, Brian Gear, Bonnie Hurren, John Mackay and Lisa Kay. Producer Viv Beeby in Bristol A new biography 2021, suggests that Barbara Pym was the 'most underrated novelist' of her time. Barbara Mary Crampton Pym (2 June 1913 – 11 January 1980) was an English novelist. In the 1950s she published a series of social comedies, of which the best known are Excellent Women (1952) and A Glass of Blessings (1958). In 1977 her career was revived when the critic Lord David Cecil and the poet Philip Larkin both nominated her as the most under-rated writer of the century. Her novel Quartet in Autumn (1977) was nominated for the Booker Prize that year, and she was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.