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Jackie Collins / Ben Elton
(The Write Stuff)
Books discussion also featuring child Hollywood star-turned-diplomat Shirley Temple Black.
Anne Robinson takes over presenting duties for the start of the second series and introduces the slightly new format. She then hands over to a report from Richard Barber, who travels to the US to meet Jackie Collins and talk about her new novel, Rock Star. Collins discusses the influences on the book, hanging out with the Stones and Beatles at nightclubs in the 60s and touring with a modern band for research.
Anne then runs through the UK Top Ten non-fiction hardback chart. Anne meets with comedian Ben Elton to discuss the success of his humorous ecological novel, Stark. Richard then speaks to Shirley Temple Black about her new autobiography looking back many decades to her career as a child movie star. She recounts how much of her acting fortune went missing and how a lady attempted to shoot her during a radio broadcast.
Nigel Havers is the week's celebrity book reviewer and he tells Anne about his acting friend, Simon William's novel about actors, Talking Oscars. Anne concludes the programme by guiding us through the UK Top Ten Paperback Fiction Chart.
The Write Stuff was a weekly round-up of the world of books, authors and publishing and was a contribution from Ulster Television to the ITV network's daytime schedules. Each week, presenter Anne Robinson and reporter Richard Barber interviewed prominent authors, sought out celebrities for the latest books they'd read and ran through the weekly book charts.
Take a trip back in time to the literary landscape of the 1980s, full of spy and romantic blockbusters, in this series made for Channel 4 and presented by Henry Kelly and Anne Robinson.
Think Top of the Pops for the book world. For two series, this Channel 4 look at the world of 1980s literature, made by Green Apple/UTV, gave viewers the chart countdown for both fiction and non-fiction interspersed with interviews with the top authors of the day. Hosted by Henry Kelly for the first series and Anne Robinson for the second, The Write Stuff visited authors both in the UK and the USA to gain insights into their crafts or even just for juicy details on stars being covered by biographers.
Lovers of books will find much to fascinate them here, with bestselling authors of yesteryear interviewed in their prime, from Jeffrey Archer to Clive Barker and from Ruby Wax to Jackie Collins. How many of the titles featured have lasted the course of popular and critical acclaim? Indulge yourself in this literary series to find out.
