I have just watched a fascinating programme on TV - BBC 4 at 9pm
(Monday 17 October 2016)
It is called "Sleuths, spies and Sorcerers: Andrew Marr's Paperback
Heroes" (Part one of three)
Each week he is examining a genre of Fiction. Tonight's was the
Detective Novel. He traced the history of the genre and the conventions
that have developed re format, plot and characters and how historical
events have changed how they have been written. He talks about/or
interviews Sherlock Holmes. Agatha Christie, in Ruth Rendell, Dashiell
Hammitt, Ian Rankin and Anthony Horrovitz. He then goes on to talk about
how Scandinavian detective series have changed the genre.
Next week's programme is about fantasy fiction and week 3 is on the
spy/espionage novel.
Tonight's programme is being repeated on Wednesday evening at 10pm.
There is also a website - BBC.co.uk/paperbackheroes, which is linked to
the Open University and has further advice on how to write these types
of fiction. For the OU article on this issue, visit this page.
(Monday 17 October 2016)
It is called "Sleuths, spies and Sorcerers: Andrew Marr's Paperback
Heroes" (Part one of three)
Each week he is examining a genre of Fiction. Tonight's was the
Detective Novel. He traced the history of the genre and the conventions
that have developed re format, plot and characters and how historical
events have changed how they have been written. He talks about/or
interviews Sherlock Holmes. Agatha Christie, in Ruth Rendell, Dashiell
Hammitt, Ian Rankin and Anthony Horrovitz. He then goes on to talk about
how Scandinavian detective series have changed the genre.
Next week's programme is about fantasy fiction and week 3 is on the
spy/espionage novel.
Tonight's programme is being repeated on Wednesday evening at 10pm.
There is also a website - BBC.co.uk/paperbackheroes, which is linked to
the Open University and has further advice on how to write these types
of fiction. For the OU article on this issue, visit this page.
Elizabeth Vousden
