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- Ep 1
1.Great Expectations
02-09-201430mGreat Expectations has often been considered one of Charles Dickens's greatest works. EastEnders screenwriter Tony Jordan explores Dickens's success as a serial writer and how Dick...
- Ep 2
2.Shakespeare's First Folio
09-09-201430mActor Simon Russell Beale has dedicated most of his professional life to the work of one man: The Bard, William Shakespeare. In Shakespeare's time, original manuscripts were thrown...
- Ep 3
3.Mrs Dalloway
16-09-201430mEnglish writer Virginia Woolf is one of the most fascinating novelists of the twentieth century. Presenter Alexandra Harris explores Woolf's 1925 novel Mrs. Dalloway and how the wr...
- Ep 4
4.The Mabinogion
23-09-201430mThe Mabinogion is a collection of 11 ancient folk tales that is considered Wales' most important contribution to European literature. Cerys Matthews explores the fascinating histor...
- Ep 5
5.Jane Eyre
30-09-201430mNovelist Bidisha Mamata first read Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre when she was a teenager and was captivated by Jane's liberating journey into adulthood. But upon revisiting the book...
6.Frankenstein
02-11-201430mMary Shelley's Frankenstein has become synonymous monsters and the dangers of science without morals. Author and scientist Professor Alice Roberts returns to the original text to e...
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