Contributor/s : A.S. Byatt, Philip Hensher
Recorded on date : November 23, 2017
Recorded at Location : British Library Knowledge Centre
A.S. Byatt talks to fellow novelist Philip Hensher about the experience of having her portrait created, and reflects on the tradition of painting not from life but from interior imagining.
Recorded at the National Portrait Gallery on Thursday 11 October 2012.
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