Nigel Hamilton
biographer, Director of the British Institute of Biography and Professor of Biography, De Montfort University
1 episode
Covers topics in categories such as:
Biography
Melvyn Bragg examines why the literary studies of often long dead characters make such popular books and whether the role of the biographer is truthful chronicler or inevitably biased re-inventor.
22 June 2000
Also featuring: Richard Holmes, Amanda Foreman