In this episode Miles is joined by Gillian Dooley (Flinders University, Australia), Jan Skinner (Formerly Oxford University's Continuing Education Department), and Frances White (Chichester University) to discuss the influence of Jane Austen, George Eliot and Virginia Woolf on the thought and writing of Iris.

Gillian Dooley is Honorary Associate Professor in English Literature at Flinders University Australia. Editor of From a Tiny Corner in the House of Fiction: Conversations with Iris Murdoch as well as the recent Listening to Iris Murdoch: Music Sounds and Silences recently published with Palgrave. She’s also published widely on Austen, and is the leading expert on Austen’s connections with music.

Jan Skinner was formerly a tutor at Oxford's Continuing Education Department, who has published work on the connections between George Eliot and Murdoch.

Frances White is author of the forthcoming monograph Iris Murdoch and Remorse with Palgrave Macmillan, as well as the co-edited collection Iris Murdoch and the Literary Imagination. She has written most detailed examination of Murdoch’s connections with Woolf in the collection Iris Murdoch Connected which is published by the University of Tennessee Press.