Golding and the Age of Anxiety

Here (for British viewers at least) is another product of the BBC's ongoing digitisation of its archive. The Golding section begins at 6:30, and uses materials from the Monitor interview, but it contains some intriguing bits and pieces, such as footage of A S Byatt singing the praises of Lord of the Flies.

BBC Monitor Interview, 1959

As it digitises its vast archive, the BBC has been making available a number of interviews with modern British novelists. One such features William Golding in 1959, very soon after the publication of Free Fall. It can be viewed here.

Golding and the Sea

Thanks to my colleague Paul Williams for sending the link to the BBC's Art of the Sea. The section on Golding is over 5 minutes long, and starts at about 34 minutes.

William Golding in Wiltshire

29 The Green, Marlborough, reproduced with kind permission of the Golding Family.

Here is my article for BBC Wiltshire on William Golding's links with the county.