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Great Expectations
Great Expectations has often been considered one of Charles Dickens's greatest works. EastEnders screenwriter Tony Jorda
Shakespeare's First Folio
Actor Simon Russell Beale has dedicated most of his professional life to the work of one man: The Bard, William Shakespe
Mrs Dalloway
English writer Virginia Woolf is one of the most fascinating novelists of the twentieth century. Presenter Alexandra Har
The Mabinogion
The Mabinogion is a collection of 11 ancient folk tales that is considered Wales' most important contribution to Europea
Jane Eyre
Novelist Bidisha Mamata first read Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre when she was a teenager and was captivated by Jane's li
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein has become synonymous monsters and the dangers of science without morals. Author and scienti
The Faerie Queene
Dr Janina Ramirez unravels Edmund Spenser's Elizabethan epic The Faerie Queene to reveal how this fantasy world of elves
Edward Lear's Nonsense Songs
Nicholas Parsons, a lifelong fan of Edward Lear, revisits the book that gave the world The Owl and the Pussycat to explo
The Mill on the Floss
Multi-award-winning actor and director Fiona Shaw explores the genesis of her all-time favourite book, The Mill on the F
Confessions of an English Opium Eater
Performance poet and former heroin addict John Cooper Clarke explores Thomas de Quincey's autobiographical classic Confe
Cider with Rosie
Best-selling chronicler of modern country life, Joanna Trollope traces the roots of her favourite book Cider with Rosie
Swallows and Amazons
Former journalist and keen amateur sailor John Sergeant takes to the water in the wake of the plucky young heroes of Art
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