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Writing the Century

Authors and actors choose their book of the century and explain what makes it so special

Five authors and actors choose their book of the century and explain what makes it so special.

Billie Whitelaw talks about working with Samuel Beckett; Edmund White on Marcel Proust's seven volumne work Remembrance of Things Past; Annie Proulx on The Dictionary of Newfoundland English; Yomi A Michaels on Chinua Achebe's novel Things Fall Apart; and Ahdaf Soueif on Edward Said's autobiography Out of Place.

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29 minutes