James Runcie

[2] He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a visiting professor at Bath Spa University and was Commissioning Editor for Arts on BBC Radio 4 from 2016 - 2020.Runcie has written the novels The Discovery of Chocolate (2001), The Colour of Heaven (2003), Canvey Island (2006), East Fortune (2009) and The Great Passion (2022).His work included Miss Julie, The White Devil, Roderick Hudson, Men Should Weep, and A Private Grief.He has worked with presenters including David Starkey, Griff Rhys Jones, Andrew Motion, Alain de Botton, and Simon Schama.Runcie won a Royal Television Society award for his film Miss Pym's Day Out in 1992, starring Patricia Routledge as the novelist Barbara Pym, and he has also received Royal Television Society nominations for How Buildings Learn and The Gentle Art of Making Enemies.
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