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Novelist Andrew Martin presents a documentary examining how the train came to shape the work of writers and film-makers, from Wordsworth and Dickens to The Railway Children. Show more
Special edition of the quiz in which links must be made between seemingly random things as the Gamblers square up to the Epicureans. Show more
Series featuring great minds of the 20th century using film from the BBC's archive, including Isaiah Berlin, Bertrand Russell and William Beveridge. Show more
Adaptation of DH Lawrence's novels The Rainbow and Women in Love, focusing on the lives of two sisters as they struggle with love, passion and commitment in the build-up to WW1. Show more
Henry Hitchings explores the lives and works of the radical 18th-century British novelists such as Defoe, Swift and Fielding who established the literary genres we recognise today. Show more
Film using rare footage from the Baum family archives plus interviews with family members, literary experts and historians to tell the story of the creator of Oz, Frank L Baum. Show more
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Special edition of the quiz in which links must be made between seemingly random things as the Gamblers square up to the Epicureans. Show more
Series featuring great minds of the 20th century using film from the BBC's archive, including Isaiah Berlin, Bertrand Russell and William Beveridge. Show more
