Forgetting a Revolutionary: Lawrence Durrell at 100 (BBC Radio 4, IPlayer)

I enjoyed listening to this programme at 6.30am Washington time.

It's now on BBC IPlayer.

I tend to agree with one of the speakers, Charles Sligh, that Prospero's Cell is the best book that Lawrence Durrell wrote (alongside White Eagles Over Serbia, a boyhood favourite, and A Smile in the Mind's Eye, in my view!).

Sligh talked of "sentences that stay in the mind", and of Durrell's love of spirit of place, albeit with "a sense of dislocation".

Tim Marlow's lively programme emphasises the rich diversity of Durrell's creative output (including his paintings as Oscar Epfs).

Joanna Kavenna spoke with great warmth and enthusiasm about The Alexandria Quartet.