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Full Steam Ahead
Full Steam Ahead - Ep2
- Broadcast
- 2016 (59 mins)
It’s Full Steam Ahead for historians Ruth Goodman, Alex Langlands and Peter Ginn as they bring back to life the golden age of steam and explore how the Victorian railways created modern Britain. In this...
Full Steam Ahead
Full Steam Ahead - Ep1
- Broadcast
- 2016 (59 mins)
It’s Full Steam Ahead for historians Ruth Goodman, Alex Langlands and Peter Ginn as they bring back to life the golden age of steam and explore how the Victorian railways created modern Britain. The...
The Secret Life of Children’s Books
Water Babies - Ep2
- Broadcast
- 2016 (29 mins)
Written in 1862 by the Reverend Charles Kingsley, The Water Babies tells the story of a young chimney sweep called Tom who finds redemption amongst the pulsing life of the open ocean when he is transformed...
The Secret Life of Children’s Books
Five Children and It - Ep1
- Broadcast
- 2016 (29 mins)
Edith Nesbit is probably best known these days for The Railway Children but her earlier book Five Children and It was even more influential its blend of magic and the everyday paving the way for the Narnia...
The Secret Life of Books Series 2
Swallows and Amazons
- Broadcast
- 2015 (29 mins)
First published in 1930 Swallows and Amazons recounts the adventures of the Walker and Blackett children and their idyllic summer holiday camping and sailing in an imaginary Lake District landscape;...
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...
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
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
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
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...