He has published a collection of writings by his enamorata, Doris Lessing, intending, one supposes, to glorify her. His choice is a good one, for Doris Lessing is a fascinating woman. She was born ...

“Oh Christ,” she said on hearing she had won the Nobel prize for literature. And those of us who knew her laughed and said how typically Doris that was. All the fuss over something so unimportant; it ...

First-ever dramatisation of Doris Lessing's 1985 satire of incompetent revolutionaries in a London squat. Starring Olivia Vinall and Joe Armstrong, dramatised by Sarah Daniels.

From Enid Blyton to Doris Lessing, Nancy Astor to Margaret Thatcher, Bette Davis to Meryl Streep, Woman’s Hour has in the course of its history interviewed many of the biggest female names from ...