Bill Bryson Notes from a Small Island
Following his enormously successful book "Notes From a Small Island", American travel writer Bill Bryson sets off on a new tour of Britain. Starting at Dover, where he recalls his first disembarkation in 1973 to a land of rain, sweet tea and disagreeable land-ladies, his travels take him from Poole in the South to the Western Isles of Scotland. Along the way he encounters such colourful characters as the pipe smokers of Solihull, ballroom dancers in Blackpool and the caber tossers of Glenfinnan. Bryson brings all his perspective eye, dry wit and outbursts of comic exasperation to this affectionate survey of the British way of life.
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In the first episode in his affectionate survey of Britain, Bill hails a London cab driven by Stephen Fry before traveling to Liverpool to take a ferr...
Bill salutes a uniquely British genius - the ability to fill any idle moment with a diversion, hobby or obsession. He meets the horn dancers of Abbots...
Bill continues his journey with a search for the country's soul. Is it to be found in the capital, on a seaside pier, out in the country side, or on a...
The Japanese recognize the British genius for invention; they've calculated that sixty per cent of "the things we take for granted" came out of a Brit...
"I'm not into dukes and earls - outside of jazz music", states Bill, who examines two very different views of the way in which heritage forms the back...
In this final program, Bill returns to the spot in Britain that means the most to him, and travels from a south-coast geology lesson with adventurer R...
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