Audio interviews, recorded by the BBC, now appear online in a collection called In Their Own Words.

These archived interviews, with legendary British novelists, takes visitors back to 1937; to a conversation with Virginia Woolf, then moves forward to interviews with...

• Aldous Huxley;

• JRR Tolkien;

• Doris Lessing;

• Martin Amis;

• VS Naipaul; and
  

• Salman Rushdie

...to name just a few.

Visit http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/writers/ to listen to these recordings.