Bücher von Michael Darlow

Michael Darlow is a writer and award winning TV producer and director. He first got to know Arabia and the Middle East in the 1970's when he made a documentary film for the Sultan of Oman and wrote a book with Richard Fawkes, The Last Corner of Arabia. His other books include Terence Rattigan - The Man and His Work, which was read on BBC Radio 4's Book of the WeekA", and Independence Struggle. His award winning TV programmes include The World At War - Genocide, Auschwitz: The Final Solution, Crime And Punishment with John Hurt, Little Eyolf with Dame Peggy Ashcroft, Sir Anthony Hopkins and Dame Diana Rigg, The Winslow Boy with Emma Thompson and Johnny Cash in San Quentin. He is a Fellow of The Royal Television Society and was awarded its Silver Medal in 2000. Barbara Bray was a university lecturer in Egypt before joining the BBC Radio Drama Department where she became a distinguished producer, director and script editor followed by Head of Radio Drama Commissions. Among the writers she helped to bring to prominence at the BBC were Harold Pinter, Samuel Beckett and Marguerite Duras, with all of whom she continued to collaborate after she moved to Paris in 1961 to become a freelance writer, critic, translator and broadcaster. Barbara won numerous prizes for translation, including the Scott-Moncrieff prize four times, the French-American Foundation Prize and the P.E.N. Award. Barbara Bray died in March 2010.