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Francisco Massiani
This documentary is a chronicle of the journey through the most important sites of the life of venezuelan writer Francisco Massiani who reveals the...
See moreHow Proust Can Change Your Life
A docu-drama portrait of the early-20th-century French author Marcel Proust, based on Alain de Botton's updated analysis of his work as a...
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A year in the company of Scottish writer Irvine Welsh, as he publishes a new novel, launches a record label, works on two television series and...
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The Spanish author Enrique Jardiel Poncela (1901-1952) was one of the best comedy writers of all time, a novelist and newspaper columnist...
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Poets Against the Bomb
An event organised by CND pits the bomb against poetry. Hear artists who hoped that words and rhymes could put an end to destructive times.
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The œuvre of poet Raffaello Baldini (1924-2005) through the words of those who knew him, the poems he himself read, the fragments of his monologues...
See moreGravel In Her Gut and Spit In Her Eye
Dorothy Johnson was a Western writer ahead of her time. Women saved men, heroes died unwept and unsung, whites lived with Indians and benefited...
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This film explores freedom of speech in the United States of America
See moreKathy Acker
Documentary about Kathy Acker where she talks about her writing and her life in New York.
See moreThe Gospel According to Philip K. Dick
Writers, publishers, fans, and friends share their perspectives and memories of sci-fi writer Philip K. Dick. In his career, Philip Kindred Dick...
See moreWhat The Durrells Did Next
Hosted by Keeley Hawes, star of the popular television series The Durrells, this documentary reveals the adventures of the eccentric Durrell family...
See moreThe Last Book
The film focuses on the exciting life journey of Swiss writer Katharina Zimmermann. She follows her husband on a mission to the jungle in Indonesia...
See moreWake Up, Leviathan
T. S. Eliot ends one of his most famous poems, "The Hollow Men", by repeating three times the sentence "This is how the world ends" - and then...
See moreOrchard House: Home of Little Women
Emmy Award-winning chronicle of the history of Orchard House, the home in Concord, Massachusetts where Louisa May Alcott wrote and set Little Women.
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The Penultimate Truth About Philip K. Dick
This in-depth program explores Philip K. Dick`s world, a universe full of mysteries and intrigues.
See moreLadies and Gentlemen, Mr. Leonard Cohen
A 1964 documentary portrait of Cohen in his pre-musician days as a poet and stand-up comedian.
See moreI Hate Jane Austen
While it may be universally acknowledged that she’s one of the great English writers, Giles Coren breaks down his many reasons for hating Jane Austen.
See moreWhat Was Virginia Woolf Really Afraid of?
A look back at the troubled life of genius British writer Virginia Woolf (1882-1941).
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