1971: Hit novel REBECCA was JUST A PHASE | Daphne du Maurier | Writers & Wordsmiths

1971: Hit novel REBECCA was JUST A PHASE | Daphne du Maurier | Writers & Wordsmiths | BBC Archive

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Rebecca? "That was just a phase."
Novelist, biographer and playwright Daphne du Maurier speaks to William De'Ath about the inspiration for her stories and her creative process.
"Each book, as it comes and one writes it, is just a thing of the moment."
"When I write, I have to become each person in turn... I was never myself."
Clips taken from Daphne du Maurier, originally broadcast on BBC Two, 31 August, 1971.
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@clarsach29 8 ай бұрын

Lost count of the number of times I have read "The House on the Strand", to my mind the best combination of science fiction, historical drama and psychological thriller that I have ever read.

@LisaChapman-fk4tf 3 ай бұрын

My favorite also. Was scrolling the comments to see if I was the only one!

@WockyJabber 3 ай бұрын

I'm reading this now! Great book - just about the hit the last couple of chapters

@carolking6355 4 ай бұрын

I first read Rebecca when I was 16, nearly 70 years ago and loved every minute of it. In those days when I found a book I liked I read as many by that author which I could find in the library. I wish I could recall the Glass Blowers. I think that was another favourite. What a lively, lovely person Daphne was. ❤

@alancawfield6549 Жыл бұрын

I love Daphne Du Maurier. I haven't read all of hers yet but Jamaica Inn and The Scapegoat are 2 of my all time favourite novels.

@1258-Eckhart Жыл бұрын

I started to listen to Jamaica Inn on BBC Sounds but found it too horrifying. Everyone seemed to want to bump everyone else off.

@carmenbarroso5332 Жыл бұрын

Please in spanish. Thank you

@milosmilosavljevic5577 Жыл бұрын

The only critical acclaim that's real is time, and her works aged gracefully

@Traveller69 Жыл бұрын

The lost art of intelligent conversation on television as well as the lost art of an interviewer letting an interviewee speak without constantly interrupting them.

@GeoAce777 8 ай бұрын

You are so damn right about that

@SharonMcwilliams78 Жыл бұрын

I read this book when I was 10 years old. My niece named Rebecca after my sister asked me to suggest a girls name. Incredible Author / Writer and woman.

@Loupdelou-ly1ve 3 ай бұрын

Wonderful interview with a fascinating woman, but other than the smoker's cough, I can't be sure du Maurier smoked - it really looked like she was holding her first ever cigarette and she was bum-puffing it!

@Gardosunron Жыл бұрын

I love her short stories, especially the birds.

@davidtexmex1616 Жыл бұрын

A delightful, insightful, witty and upbeat author, sheer class ✨

@TheLightofAniu 11 ай бұрын

I adore Daphne du Maurier, she is the writer that made me want to write the books I write now; her style was so inspiring, literary but not overbearingly so, classic but tense and suspenseful. She knew how to have the finger on the pulse and give you moments of calmness and gradually rising tension. And as a writer I want to be her, when I come into my own. A writer who can keep the reader turning the page, enchanted and disturbed and terrified. Her short stories, especially “Don’t Look Now”, “The Apple Tree”, “Monte Verità”, “Not After Midnight”, and “The Birds”, are masterpieces. Her novels are remarkably varied and multifaceted and memorable. And the way she wrote was just flawless, be damned what the critics say. She never once wrote a boring story and she kept a nation guessing with “Rebecca”. It is small wonder it was one of the greatest literary successes of the 20th Century.

@Pymmeh Жыл бұрын

1:45 I love how inverted commas Alfred is absolutely hamming it up with the force of a thousand suns. More of this delightful lady please!

@DazednDade 3 ай бұрын

learned about daphne through a book that covered her family, their losses, and their relation to jm barrie. i resonate with aspects of her personality and learned so much about her from that book. it’s called neverland i highly recommend

@NoosaHeads Жыл бұрын

She was a stunner when she was young.

@sarahlouise7163 Жыл бұрын

my mum always had a book on the go, du Maurier, Cookson etc.

@58christiansful Жыл бұрын

Most memorable titles for me: Rebecca, My Cousin Rachel, Don’t Look Now (a story that really scared me!), Not After Midnight (another scary one), Frenchman’s Creek.

@GeoAce777 8 ай бұрын

Don't Look Now, book AND film 😳😈

@nothingiseverperfect 6 ай бұрын

That was so cool when she started smoking the cigarette 😭😭😂😂

@zaftra Жыл бұрын

She's not what I expected. Got that stephen king jolly attitude.

@bluejeanmeanie Жыл бұрын

Has anyone here read Frenchman’s Creek? What are y’all’s opinions on it?

@hilaryepstein6013 Жыл бұрын

A wonderful historic interview but would he have asked a male novelist of 65 if they'd noticed "a decline in the working powers"? Possibly not.

@malcolmjawohowelll2892 Жыл бұрын

And possibly yes..... remember.that age might well have been viewed differently when average life expectancy was possibly less than the average 50 years later ..Thats my .opinion ....How easy it is without evidence to assume bias .

@LeighRichards27 Жыл бұрын

Good question. It might be a coincidence but agatha christie also had to field similar questions from interviewers in her later years

@pressureworks Жыл бұрын

Why wouldn't he ?. Older folks, both male and female, are frequently asked similar questions.

@malcolmjawohowelll2892 Жыл бұрын

@@LeighRichards27 a question about ageing as sometimes people slow down or have less vigour in being creative ..its quite normal as an interview has a format to work to in any eventuality

@zaftra Жыл бұрын

I know, lets shoehorn some totally irrelevant and pointless FEMINISM in.