Face to Face
Season 4, Episode 5: JG Ballard
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The author of Empire of the Sun and Crash discusses the realities he has created through his work and their interaction with the events of his own life. Ballard talks honestly about the attraction of dark and violent things and the light that these extreme moments can shed on the truth of the human condition. He also explores his early desire to be a psychiatrist and the way in which his interest in the workings of the mind has carried through into the fiction he produces.
All Episodes - Season 4
Episode 1
Anthony Burgess
Episode 2
Merce Cunningham
Episode 3
David Hare
Episode 4
George Steine
Episode 5
JG Ballard
Episode 6
Oliver Sacks
Episode 7
Roger Corman
Episode 8
Professor Hans Eysenck
Episode 9
Sir David Attenborough
Episode 10
Merce Cunningham
Episode 11
Edmund White
Episode 12
George Steiner
Episode 13
Sir Peter Hall
Episode 14
Martin Amis
Episode 15
David Hockney
Episode 16
Kirk Douglas
Episode 17
Steven Spielberg
Episode 18
Billy Connolly
Episode 19
V.S. Naipaul
Episode 20
Maya Angelou
Episode 21
Jeanette Winterson
Episode 22
Ken Loach
Episode 23
Salman Rushdie
Episode 24
Allen Ginsberg
Episode 25
Arthur Miller
Episode 26
Ken Dodd
Episode 27
Lauren Bacall
Episode 28
Anthony Hopkins
Episode 29
John Berger
Episode 30
Stephen Sondheim
Episode 31
Martha Gellhorn
Episode 32
Norman Mailer
Episode 33
Paul Eddington
Episode 34
Germaine Greer