Where did the great authors of the past live and work? How much was their work affected by the places in which they lived?
In the first of a series P. J. KAVANAGH visits the house in Olney, Buckinghamshire, where WILLIAM COWPER composed some of the best-known hymns in the English language. ' For most of his life,' Kavanagh says, ' he believed that he was literally damned.' How did Cowper wrestle with his despair and in a single night produce the comic poem
John Gilpin ? an intense and personal report ... a series packed with delights
(SUNDAY TIMES)
Film cameraman TOM INGLE
Director DAVID HEYCOCK