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22 results found for all records.
Shakespeare Live
Shakespeare Live
- Broadcast
- 2016 (143 mins)
From the stage of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon, hosts David Tennant and Catherine Tate will be joined by Benedict Cumberbatch, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Dame Helen Mirren, Meera Syal,...
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 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...
Andrew Marr’s Paperback Heroes
Detectives - Ep1
- Broadcast
- 2016 (59 mins)
In the first episode of a series that explores the books we (really) read, Andrew Marr investigates the curious case of detective fiction. This is a genre that been producing bestsellers since the 19th...
Andrew Marr’s Paperback Heroes
Fantasy - Ep2
- Broadcast
- 2016 (59 mins)
What is it about stories of magic, epic adventure, and imaginary worlds that has turned Fantasy into one of the world’s most popular forms of storytelling, regularly filling the bestseller lists and...
Andrew Marr’s Paperback Heroes
Spies - Ep3
- Broadcast
- 2016 (59 mins)
What is the allure of the classic espionage story? As Andrew Marr argues in the conclusion to his series about the books we (really) read, the British spy novel is much more than a cloak and dagger affair....
To Walk Invisible
To Walk Invisible
- Broadcast
- 2016 (119 mins)
Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte face a bleak future, with their father half-blind and troubled brother Branwell in decline. As their situation worsens, Charlotte sees that writing could offer a way out....
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,...