The Secret Life of Books
Classic books are considered with a fresh eye. Returning to the authors' original manuscripts and letters, expert writers and performers bring their personal insights to these great works.
Episodes
Great Expectations has often been considered one of Charles Dickens's greatest works. EastEnders screenwriter Tony Jordan explores Dickens's success a...
Actor Simon Russell Beale has dedicated most of his professional life to the work of one man: The Bard, William Shakespeare. In Shakespeare's time, or...
English writer Virginia Woolf is one of the most fascinating novelists of the twentieth century. Presenter Alexandra Harris explores Woolf's 1925 nove...
The Mabinogion is a collection of 11 ancient folk tales that is considered Wales' most important contribution to European literature. Cerys Matthews e...
Novelist Bidisha Mamata first read Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre when she was a teenager and was captivated by Jane's liberating journey into adulthood...
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein has become synonymous monsters and the dangers of science without morals. Author and scientist Professor Alice Roberts ret...
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