Introduced by Amanda Theunissen If You Have Tears...
A good cry over a book is a real, if peculiar, pleasure. But where does sentiment end, and sentimentality begin; and are we more sensible or more callous than our Victorian forebears who wept over the death of Little Nell?
Patricia Beer, Edward Blishen, and Vernon Sproxton do not claim hearts of stone. Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol