Imagine...

Alan Yentob meets 92-year-old Diana Athill, who is suddenly a celebrity. Her frank and entertaining memoirs, mainly written after the age at which most people retire, chart a life less ordinary. She's had a string of love affairs; enjoyed fifty years of success as an editor, worked with writers Jean Rhys, Norman Mailer and VS Naipaul; and led a privileged childhood in a Norfolk mansion.

Category

Documentary / Art

Original air date

29/06/2010