In 1937, Graham Greene recruited Bowen to write theatre reviews for Night and Day, his short-lived journal. Throughout her career, Bowen thought about and wrote dramas for radio and the stage. In the 1940s, she wrote several short dramatic features for BBC radio with an emphasis on dialogue: one about Frances Burney, another about Jane Austen, a short play called ‘The Confidante’??IN TEXT ’The Confidant’, and an autobiographical piece called ‘A Year I Remember – 1918’. Castle Anna, a play that Bowen co-authored with John Perry, received indifferent notices when it was staged in February 1948. She also wrote a pageant on the history of Kinsale and a ‘Nativity Play’. As much as she was drawn to theatre, Bowen’s strength lay in writing for the ear rather than the eye.