The Bloomsbury Group

The Bloomsbury Group remains of great public interest for its influence on art, literature and politics in the first half of the 20th century. Recordings of this informal association of writers, artists and intellectuals, which included Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Clive and Vanessa Bell, and Duncan Grant among others, are brought together for the first time on a 2CD set. The recordings also include reminiscences by some of those who were associated or related to the group. The CDs draw on long-unheard BBC broadcasts and recordings from the Charleston Trust, most of which are being published for the first time.
 
Track listing
DISC ONE
1. Leonard Woolf
The World of Books (1964)
2. Virginia Woolf
Craftsmanship (1937)
3. E M Forster
Talk on Desmond MacCarthy (1952)
4. Desmond MacCarthy
Tears (1947)
5. Duncan Grant
Desert Island Discs (1975)
6. Leonard Woolf
Henry James and the Young Men (1959)
7. Clive Bell
Lytton Strachey (1980)
8. Duncan Grant
Charleston Trust interview (1969)
Other speaker: Quentin Bell
9. Vanessa Bell
Portrait of Virginia Woolf (1956)
10. Duncan Grant
Charleston Trust interview (1969)
Other speaker: Quentin Bell
11. John Maynard Keynes
The Arts Council of Great Britain (1945)
12. Duncan Grant
From BBC interviews made for ‘Omnibus’ programme (1970)
 
DISC TWO
1. Harold Nicolson
As I Knew Her (1954)
2. William Plomer
From BBC interviews made for ‘Omnibus’ programme (1970)
3. David Garnett
David Garnett interviewed on his life and work (1978)
4. David Cecil
From BBC interviews made for ‘Omnibus’ programme (1970)
5. Frances Partridge
My Century (1999)
6. Angelica Garnett
British Library oral history interview (2003)
7. George Rylands
Portrait of Virginia Woolf (1956)
8. Marjorie Strachey
Souvenir – Recollections of the Bloomsbury Group (1962)
9. Angelica Garnett
From BBC interviews made for ‘Omnibus’ programme (1970)
10. Vita Sackville-West
Talk on Virginia Woolf and Orlando (1955)
11. Quentin Bell
From BBC interviews made for ‘Omnibus’ programme (1970)
12. Margery Fry
Portrait of Virginia Woolf (1956)
13. Nigel Nicolson and Benedict Nicolson
From BBC interviews made for ‘Omnibus’ programme (1970)
14. Elizabeth Bowen
From BBC interviews made for ‘Omnibus’ programme (1970)
15. George Rylands
From BBC interviews made for ‘Omnibus’ programme (1970)
16. Ralph Partridge
Portrait of Virginia Woolf (1956)
17. John Lehmann
Portrait of Virginia Woolf (1956)
18. Bertrand Russell
Portraits from Memory (1952)
19. David Garnett
Books and Writers (1971)
20. Gerald Brenan
Interviewed by the BBC on his book Personal Record 1920 –1972 (1974)
21. Grace Higgens
Charleston Trust interview (1969)
22. Nellie Boxhall
Portrait of Virginia Woolf (1956)
23. Lottie Hope
Portrait of Virginia Woolf (1956)
24. Louie Mayer
From BBC interviews made for ‘Omnibus’ programme (1970)