Molly Keane's guest appearances

Molly Keane

So Many Damn Books

Desert Island Discs: Archive 1986-1991

On The Fringe with Geoff Harris

Carmel Harrington

Seamus Heaney

Michael Foley

Richard Branson

William Davis

Salman Rushdie

Stephen Fry

Ruth Westheimer

Kenneth Williams

Joanna Lumley

Tony Bennett

David Blunkett

Jeremy Irons

Katharine Hamnett

Anna Jordan

OwlTail

Christine Grillo

Into the Damn Library Christine Grillo zooms, and what do we talk about? Her inventive, touching, hopefully not too prescient Hestia Strikes a Match, plus all that went into it, like parents and politics and fireplace decor. Plus, she brings along the archly funny and itself harrowing Good Behaviour by Molly Keane. Books, you better believe it!contribute! https://patreon.com/smdbfor drink recipes, book lists, and more, visit: somanydamnbooks.commusic: Disaster Magic(https://soundcloud.com/disaster-magic)

Into the Damn Library Christine Grillo zooms, and what do we talk about? Her inventive, touching, hopefully not too prescient Hestia Strikes a Match, plus all that went into it, like parents and politics and fireplace decor. Plus, she brings along the archly funny and itself harrowing Good Behaviour by Molly Keane. Books, you better believe it!contribute! <a href="https://patreon.com/smdb" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://patreon.com/smdb</a>for drink recipes, book lists, and more, visit: <a href="https://www.somanydamnbooks.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">somanydamnbooks.com</a>music: Disaster Magic(<a href="https://soundcloud.com/disaster-magic" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://soundcloud.com/disaster-magic</a>)

205: Christine Grillo (HESTIA STRIKES A MATCH) & Molly Keane's GOOD BEHAVIOUR

Butlerstown native and lecturer at WIT Fiona tells Mary that writing has always been in her blood; she's the daughter of well known poet John Ennis. She won the national Molly Keane Creative Writing award 2019, for her short story "Debt."

Winner of the Molly Keane creative writing award Fiona Ennis drops in for a chat

The castaway in this week's Desert Island Discs is one of the most highly acclaimed writers of today. The author of Good Behaviour, Time After Time and Loving and Giving, she began writing in the early 20s using the pseudonym MJ Farrell to conceal her identity from her sporting friends in Ireland, where she was born and grew up. It was a world of snobbery and decaying aristocracy which she portrays in her books with excruciating accuracy.Then, after a period in the early 50s as a successful playwright, she fell silent, to emerge 25 years later under her real name, Molly Keane, and went on to achieve huge success and literary recognition. Now 86, she'll be talking to Sue Lawley about her childhood, her books and her Ireland.[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: Greensleeves by James GalwayBook: A bound copy of the Spectator magazinesLuxury: A bed, netted from snakes and flies

The castaway in this week's Desert Island Discs is one of the most highly acclaimed writers of today. The author of Good Behaviour, Time After Time and Loving and Giving, she began writing in the early 20s using the pseudonym MJ Farrell to conceal her identity from her sporting friends in Ireland, where she was born and grew up. It was a world of snobbery and decaying aristocracy which she portrays in her books with excruciating accuracy. Then, after a period in the early 50s as a successful playwright, she fell silent, to emerge 25 years later under her real name, Molly Keane, and went on to achieve huge success and literary recognition. Now 86, she'll be talking to Sue Lawley about her childhood, her books and her Ireland. [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: Greensleeves by James Galway Book: A bound copy of the Spectator magazines Luxury: A bed, netted from snakes and flies