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World Service,24 Jun 1993,28 mins

William Golding obituary

Meridian

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Remembering William Golding, author of Lord of the Flies. Who was this visionary writer who combined the active with the contemplative, the practical with the mystical? "I think of him as a neo-Victorian, he had the craggy bearded furrowed look of one of the great Victorian sages," says friend and literary critic Anthony Curtis.

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