... Centre Play, Monday January 6, 10.15 pm), a 30-minute play set in the London of 1975 by Howard Brenton and based on one of Joseph Conrad's later works, Under Western Eyes. In construction the author has taken the easy way out: indeed, if one is to base one's ...

... in the series are Thomas Mann, Franz Kafka, Mar cel Proust, Luigi Pirandello, Virginia Woolf, Dostoevsky, James Joyce, Joseph Conrad, Henrik Ibsen and T. S. Eliot. The series, which will open with an introductory programme outlining its purpose and range ...

... abstract, and recog nised as one of the greatest portrait sculptors of all time. His busts of Bernard Shaw and, especially, Joseph Conrad, were what are called perfect likenesses in traditional terms, and he was without equal in sculpting chil dren's faces ...

... and Claudia Cardinale, and a cast of thousands, land a prime BBC1 Sunday evening slot? Was John Hale's adaptation of Joseph Conrad's Nostromo (BBC2, Saturday, February 1, 9.30pm) so dire that it was slipped into the schedules almost unannounced prior ...