Narnia's Lost Poet: The Secret Lives and Loves of C.S. Lewis

Narnia's Lost Poet: The Secret Lives and Loves of C.S. Lewis

C.S. Lewis's biographer A.N. Wilson goes in search of the man behind Narnia, a highly secretive man whose personal life was marked by the loss of...

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Miss Pym's Day Out

Miss Pym's Day Out

In 1977, after a fourteen year dry spell, the novelist Barbara Pym was nominated for a Booker Award for her novel, Quartet in Autumn. This drama...

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Prince Consorts: In the Shadow of the Crown

Prince Consorts: In the Shadow of the Crown

No profession, no say, no freedom of expression. Life as a prince consort is not exactly pleasure taxing. No constitution ascribes any function to...

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The Genius of Josiah Wedgwood

The Genius of Josiah Wedgwood

Historian and author AN Wilson explores the life of Josiah Wedgwood. Wilson reveals the achievements of the self-made, self-educated creative giant...

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Tolstoy: The Man Behind Anna

Tolstoy: The Man Behind Anna

An examination of the life of great Russian author Leo Tolstoy, who penned the 1877 novel Anna Karenina.

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Beatrix Potter with Patricia Routledge

Beatrix Potter with Patricia Routledge

Patricia Routledge, as patron of the Beatrix Potter Society, presents a documentary on the author's life and work.

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Queen Victoria's Letters: A Monarch Unveiled

Queen Victoria's Letters: A Monarch Unveiled

This is the story of Queen Victoria as never heard before; a psychological insight of the woman told through her own words, her experiences...

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Prince Albert: A Victorian Hero Revealed

Prince Albert: A Victorian Hero Revealed

Professor Saul David examines Prince Albert's role in shaping British culture, governmental policy and international relations in Victorian Britain.

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Return to Eliotland

Return to Eliotland

AN Wilson explores the life and work of TS Eliot. From The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock to The Waste Land and from Ash Wednesday to Four Quartets...

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