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Developing Characters

Beryl Bainbridge, Malcolm Bradbury and Claire Boylan on giving characters a background

Beryl Bainbridge, Malcolm Bradbury, and Claire Boylan discuss techniques for developing characters, moving them across your chosen landscape, and giving them a background.

"If you can build a character slowly and subtly and then you surprise the reader by having them do or say something unexpected, you're creating a third dimension," says author Paul Bailey.

Presented by Russell Celyn Jones.

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13 minutes

Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service Archive

This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project