Season 02, Episode 06 – “Swallows and Amazons”
Former journalist and keen amateur sailor John Sergeant takes to the water in the wake of the plucky young heroes of Arthur Ransome’s Swallows and Amazons, and learns how a globe-trotting foreign correspondent and acquintance of Lenin and Trotsky came to perfect a new, more authentic kind of children’s literature that featured real children doing real things in real places.

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Season 02, Episode 05 – “Cider with Rosie”
Best-selling chronicler of modern country life, Joanna Trollope traces the roots of her favourite book Cider with Rosie to uncover how Laurie Lee blended fact and fiction in his wistful elegy to a disappeared rural world – and reflect on why a book with such dark, hard-edged undercurrents continues to have such a popular appeal.

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Season 02, Episode 04 – “Confessions of A English Opium Eater”
Performance poet John Cooper Clarke explores Thomas de Quincey’s autobiographical classic Confessions of an English Opium Eater, and discovers how his fellow Mancunian’s addiction memoir avoids the cliches of modern ‘misery-lit’ in favour of something much more unsentimental and psychologically complex.

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Season 02, Episode 03 – “The Mill On the Floss”
Multi-award-winning actor and director Fiona Shaw explores the genesis of her all-time favourite book, The Mill on the Floss, and discovers how the scandal that caused George Eliot (born Mary Ann Evans) to take a male pen name was also played out in the plot of her classic novel about a woman’s thwarted intellectual ambitions and conflicting sexual desires.

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Season 02, Episode 02 – “Edward Lears Nonsense Songs”
Nicholas Parsons, a lifelong fan of Edward Lear, revisits the book that gave the world The Owl and the Pussycat to explore the fine line between joy and melancholy in Lear’s writing and discover how the epileptic, bronchial, asthmatic depressive pioneered a new kind of poetry that married brilliant wordplay with astonishing artwork.

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Season 02, Episode 01 – “The Faerie Queene”
The documentary series exploring classic works of fiction returns, giving another selection of presenters a chance to explore the context, creation and meaning of various popular tales. Historian Janina Ramirez gets things under way with an investigation into The Faerie Queene, Edmund Spenser’s epic Elizabethan poem, which heavily features fantasy elements including elves, nymphs, dragons and questing knights, but may mask the author’s commentary on the brutal Tudor occupation of Ireland. Janina investigates the allegorical qualities of Spenser’s magnum opus, and uncovers evidence that suggests the poet coded his growing disillusionment with the conflict into his poem’s restless verse

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Season 01, Episode 06 – “Frankenstein”
Some 200 years since it was written, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is now shorthand for the horrors of science run amok. But when author and anatomist Professor Alice Roberts returns to the 18-year-old Mary's manuscripts, she finds someone concerned with the very act of creation itself. She also discovers clues of another writer's influence, someone very close to Mary. Alice's travels take her to the Villa Diodati in Geneva, where Mary and her partner Percy spent time with Lord Byron and she conceived the idea of Victor Frankenstein's creature. By showing the disastrous results of the obsessive Victor's attempts to create life, Mary is seen to be critiquing the Romantic ideal of the solitary, creative genius, a notion associated with poets Percy Shelley and Byron. Surprisingly, when examining Mary's original manuscript at the Bodleian Library in Oxford, Alice also sees written evidence of Percy's collaborative role in the creation of Victor.
In considering the influence of Mary's parents - her father was the radical philosopher William Godwin and her mother Mary was the author of A Vindication of the Rights of Women - Alice further shows that the ideas informing Frankenstein make the novel much more than a simple horror story. Mary's account does deal in death, but ultimately it provokes us to ask questions about how we live.

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Season 01, Episode 05 – “Jane Eyre"
Journalist and novelist Bidisha was fascinated by Bronte's Jane Eyre as a teenager, but re-reading the story as an adult left her feeling uncomfortable. What Bronte had to say about sex and race was darker and more disturbing than she remembered. For the young Bidisha, Jane Eyre's perilous, but ultimately liberating, passage into adulthood showed that a young woman could find happiness without compromising her principles. Jane got to have it all. Or did she?
Revisiting this classic Victorian novel seventeen years on, Bidisha sees her erstwhile role model, and the society which spawned her, through very different eyes. Is Jane Eyre really the spirited, independent woman Bidisha admired as a young reader? Is the supposedly dashing Mr Rochester little more than a bully and an abuser? What does the characterisation of Bertha, the mad creole woman in Rochester's attic tell us about Bronte's colonial attitudes?

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Season 01, Episode 04 – “Mabinogion”
Cerys Matthews’ great passion is the Mabinogion, a series of wild and magical Welsh folk tales which written over a thousand years old.

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Season 01, Episode 03 – “Mrs Dalloway”
Award-winning writer Alexandra Harris shows how Virginia Woolf's classic work Mrs Dalloway completely re-imagined what a novel might be. Woolf came of age as an author after Europe had been shattered by the First World War. 'Everything was going to be new,' says Harris of Woolf's literary ambitions. 'Everything was going to be different. Everything was on trial'.
The result was a new, free-form style of writing that responded to the post-war climate of confusion and uncertainty. Radically, Woolf's central characters - socialite Clarissa Dalloway and shell-shocked survivor Septimus Smith - never meet, while the novel also pioneers a flowing stream-of-consciousness style.
Using original manuscripts, diaries and notebooks to 'catch a glimpse of a great writer at work', Harris argues that the novel also allowed Woolf to creatively channel her own mental illness into the character of Septimus Smith, and in so doing helped keep herself sane.

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