Television

Bookmark (BBC): Hosted by Ian Hamilton from 1984-1987
(An asterisk indicates Hamilton interviewed and scripted the film or studio item.)

9 September 1984: Martin Amis, T.S. Eliot*, Agatha Christie
24 October 1984: J.G. Ballard*, Seamus Heaney*, D.H. Lawrence
21 November 1984: Virginia Woolf, James Baldwin
19 December 1984: Mirror Poetry (Kingsley Amis), Dr. Johnson, Mark Twain
21 January 1985: Alison Lurie*, Austin, Texas, Ezra Pound*
20 February 1985: Rosamond Lehmann, John Cheever, Edward Fitzgerald*
20 March 1985: The Tenth Man, A Passage to India, Richardson.s Pamela*
17 April 1985: Dorothy Wordsworth, Esperanto, Stratis Haviaras
22 May 1985: Keith Douglas*, Mario Vargas Llosa
26 September 1985: Italo Calvino*, Simon Gray*, Clive Sinclair*
17 October 1985: Primo Levi, Koestler Awards (Prison Writing)
14 November 1985: V.S. Pritchett*, Miss Read, Grace Paley*
19 December 1985: Roald Dahl, Shirley Hughes, Janni Howker
16 January 1986: Angus Wilson*, H.R.F. Keating, Simon Burt
13 february1986: J.M. O.Neill, Margaret Forster, R.S. Thomas*
13 March 1986: Ruth Rendell, William Trevor*, Edmund White
10 April 1986: Dannie Abse*
8 May 1986: A. Alvarez, Timothy Mo*, S-Z Dictionary
2 October 1986: A.N. Wilson*, Joseph Brodsky
30 October 1986: Jonathan Raban, Joseph Skvorecky*, Ted Albeury
31 October 1986: Fay Weldon Special
27 November 1986: James Clavell, George Lamming
8 January 1987: Peter Reading*, Pat Barker, Kazuo Ishiguro*
5 February 1987: Nurrudin Farah, Don Mattera
5 March 1987: Spalding Gray, Peter Taylor*
7 May 1987: Yorkshire Ripper, Melvyn Bragg, Christine Brooke-Rose

Additional Television Appearances

New Release, 16 February 1967.The Film of the Book. [About publication of a first novel].
Omnibus, George Orwell, 10 January 1970, BBC TV [IH interviewed about George Orwell].

The Living Poet, 16 Mar. 1970, BBC Third Programme [IH introduces & reads selection of his poems].

Second House, 5 January 1974, BBC TV [Melvyn Bragg profile of John Fuller, with interview with IH].

Second House, 20 April 1974, BBC TV [IH interviewed about The New Review].

Bookmark, 28 September 1983, BBC TV [IH previews the six novels nominated for the Booker Prize].

Omnibus, 'The Other Side of Paradise', 5 November 1985 [IH scripts and presents a documentary on F. Scott Fitzgerald].

Bookmark, 'Lifers', 9 March 1996, BBC TV [IH interviewed about J.D. Salinger biography and biography in general].

Radio

Books and Writers, 22 June 1970, BBC Radio [IH interviewed about The Visit].

Kaleidoscope, 5 April 1974, BBC Radio [IH interviewed about the aims of The New Review].

Poetry Please, 23 January 1994, BBC Radio 4 [IH introduces a selection of listeners' requests for American poetry].

Night Waves, 11 March 1998, BBC Radio 3 [IH talks to Tony Palmer about A Gift Imprisoned: The Poetic Life of Matthew Arnold].

Critic!, 12 April 1998, BBC, Radio 3 [Tom Paulin and Ian Hamilton discuss William Hazlitt and Matthew Arnold].

Twenty Minutes, "Against Oblivion", 22 March 2000, BBC Radio 3 [IH on Charlotte Mew and Hart Crane (adapted from his book, Against Oblivion: Some Lives of the 20th Century Poets)].

Twenty Minutes, "Against Oblivion", 24 March 2000, BBC Radio 3 [IH on Norman Cameron and Weldon Kees (adapted from his book, Against Oblivion: Some Lives of the 20th Century Poets)].