The original caption simply read: Professor John Bayley and Dame Iris Murdoch photographed in the back garden of their home in Oxford. 09.09.1998 photo: Neil Turner/Times Higher Education Supplement. ©News International
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Neil Turner Photographer 
I bought my first Iris Murdoch novel A Severed Head in 1961 when I was 17 (51 years ago!)
Having just read Professor Bayley’s IRIS Trilogy I wanted to see some photographs of both of them in later life and found these in my tour of the internet.
Absolutely beautiful and completely capture the spirit of the books and both these remarkable people. Thank you for the pleasure.
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My pleasure. Without doubt a top ten favourite assignment that I’ve done. I had not read Iris Murdoch before that day but it made go away and devour almost everything she had written quite quickly.
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