Welcome to the first in what we are calling our third season of Backlisted (the first one lasted for 109 episodes, the second a mere 68). Thank you for your patience and your support during our sabbatical. Normal service (or something like it) has now been resumed!

The whole of the next hour and a bit is dedicated to the work of Graham Greene – a writer we have long wanted to tackle. There are no guests, but we will cover several representative pieces – not necessarily the most famous or of Greene’s work – and try to apply a fresh perspective to his long and sometimes controversial career.

We start somewhere near the beginning with The Name of Action from 1930, a book Greene himself wanted suppressed…

Books mentioned:
The Name of Action (1930)
The Ministry of Fear (1943)
The Quiet American (1955)
May We Borrow Your Husband? & Other Comedies of the Sexual Life (1967)
Lord Rochester’s Monkey (1976)