The Channel

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1. From Landscape to Seascape

Series examining how the English Channel has affected British identity through time.

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The Channel: Series 1: 2. Literary Passages

2. Literary Passages

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From Dickens to Barnes, Professor Dominic Rainsford explores the literature of the Channel

An exploration of what the writings of Dickens, Hugo and Barnes reveal about our relationship with the Channel. From 2018.

What do the writings of Charles Dickens, Victor Hugo and Julian Barnes reveals about our relationship with the Channel?  

Dominic Rainsford, Professor of Literature in English at Aarhus University, Denmark, and Dr Cindy Sughrue OBE, Director of the Charles Dickens Museum, examine the artefacts that reveal the novelists' extreme familiarity with the Dover Strait.

The Channel is a reflection on the stretch of water that both separates us from and connects us to Europe. 

This series examines how this waterway has affected our British identity through time, and continues to do so.

Music composed by Phil Channell

Producer: Marya Burgess

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2018.

The Channel: Series 1

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