Gore Vidal
Thomas Mallon: Nixon, Reagan, Bush and Trump
19 Mar 2016
American novelist, essayist, and critic, whose books include Watergate: a Novel and Finale: a Novel of the Reagan Years. He is a guest at the Auckland Writers Festival. Audio
Birth of the culture wars
22 Aug 2015
Co-director of the documentary feature Best of Enemies, about the 1968 series of television debates between writer and intellectual Gore Vidal and conservative author and commentator William F… Video, Audio
Robert Gordon: 'The Best of Enemies'
15 Jul 2015
After Robert Gordon saw footage of the 1968 series of debates between Gore Vidal and William F Buckley, he contacted his collaborator Morgan Neville to begin work on their documentary 'The Best of… Video, Audio
James Lee Burke: oil and crime
19 Jul 2014
American novelist, talking about his new book Wayfaring Stranger, set against the oil business of the 1930s and 40s. Audio