The BBC's Radio 4 has made a three-part series on Sylvia Plath entitled  The Writing Life of Sylvia Plath . The first episode airs today at 1600 GMT in London and should be available via their website shortly afterwards.  Information about Episode 1: Childhood, Youth and Motherhood Sylvia Plath was an extraordinarily talented writer. She wrote with rare force and wit, hers was a singular voice. She is the author of the classic coming of age novel The Bell Jar , and one of the 20th century’s most important poetry collections, 1965’s Ariel . But her words have been overshadowed by the details of her biography; her marriage to fellow poet Ted Hughes, its dissolution, and her death by suicide in 1963. In this new three part series, the focus is firmly on Sylvia Plath’s writing as Mariella Frostrup aims to paint a more nuanced picture of Plath as a poet and novelist, cutting through the noise to see her more clearly and putting her life in the context of her work, rather than the o...