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Vienna - Empire, Dynasty and Dream
Vienna - Empire, Dynasty and Dream - Episode 3
- Broadcast
- 2016 (59 mins)
Episode 3 begins in 1814. Napoleon Bonaparte had lost his empire and his throne. That Autumn, Europe’s most powerful men travelled to Vienna for the ultimate summit meeting: to rebuild the Europe Napoleon...
Inside the Commons
Episode One - Lifting the Lid
- Broadcast
- 2015 (59 mins)
Michael Cockerell presents the first in a four part series with unparalleled access to the House of Commons, filmed over the course of a year. We follow two relatively new female MPs - Charlotte Leslie and...
Inside the Commons
Episode Two - Upstairs Downstairs
- Broadcast
- 2015 (58 mins)
In this, the second episode of this major four-part series, presenter Michael Cockerell explores the ‘Upstairs-Downstairs’ world of the House of Commons. We see what goes on backstage at the State...
Inside the Commons
Episode Three - Party Games
- Broadcast
- 2015 (58 mins)
In the third part of this series presented by Michael Cockerell, with unprecedented access to the House of Commons, we see how the traditional three-party system appears to be falling apart at the seams....
Inside the Commons
Episode Four - Reinventing the House
- Broadcast
- 2015 (59 mins)
In the final part of reporter Michael Cockerell’s behind-the-scenes series with unprecedented access to the House of Commons, battles break out over the future of the House. The controversial Speaker John...
The Secret Life of Books Series 2
The Mill on the Floss
- Broadcast
- 2015 (29 mins)
Published in 1860, The Mill on the Floss was George Eliot’s 3rd novel and also her most autobiographical. Its focus was a young woman’s struggle for intellectual fulfilment, her forbidden love and the...
The Secret Life of Books Series 2
Edward Lear’s Nonsense Books
- Broadcast
- 2015 (28 mins)
Lifelong fan of Edward Lear, Nicholas Parsons, delves into the book that gave the world The Owl and The Pussycat to discover how the epileptic, bronchial, asthmatic depressive pioneered a new kind of poetry...
The Secret Life of Books Series 2
Cider With Rosie
- Broadcast
- 2015 (29 mins)
In this film, acclaimed author Joanna Trollope rediscovers the story behind Cider with Rosie and the world of its author, Laurie Lee. Having first read the book shortly after its publication fifty years ago,...
The Secret Life of Books Series 2
Confessions of an English Opium Eater
- Broadcast
- 2015 (29 mins)
Poet and writer John Cooper Clarke explores the story behind Thomas de Quincey’s notorious nineteenth century book Confessions of an English Opium Eater. One of the first portrayals of recreational drug...
The Secret Life of Books Series 2
The Faerie Queen
- Broadcast
- 2015 (29 mins)
Dr Janina Ramirez uncovers the surprising story behind one of the most influential poems in the English language: Edmund Spenser’s 16th century epic The Faerie Queene. Written at the end of the 16th...