The Culture Show: The Culture Show: Wars of the Heart

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For those who remained in London during the Second World War, the Blitz was a time of sleeplessness, fear and loss, but some of the city's literary set found inspiration in the danger and intensity. James Runcie examines how novelists Graham Greene, Henry Green and Elizabeth Bowen and poet Hilda Doolittle revelled in the creative and personal freedom, and reveals how these writers distilled the surreal and often frightening atmosphere of the time into some of their finest work.