![]() ![]() ![]() Lady Antonia got a message saying that he wanted to speak to her she said she was rather irritated at having to interrupt a phone conversation with a friend, and wondered what it could be."I’ve won the Nobel Prize" came the rather unusual answer. She and her husband work in different parts of their house - indeed he labours away in an office at the bottom of the garden - and they were going about their business, he no doubt pondering how to manage a long silence in the next play, she on the telephone, when the lightning struck. Not only was this month’s programme (Sunday 6 November, Thursday 10 November, 4pm, Radio 4) rather topical, at least in the sense that it coincided (almost) with Bonfire Night, though its subject matter is 400 years old, but we found ourselves talking to Antonia Fraser on the very day when her household had been turned upside down by the news that Harold Pinter had been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. The following is from James Naughtie's Bookclub email newsletter: Treason and betrayal are everywhere and the price of a mistake is death. ![]() James Naughtie and a group of readers talk to Antonia Fraser about her book The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605,A revealing and gripping account of the plot to blow up Parliament on 5 November 1605. ![]()
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