Series 1

Supporting Content

• 'Whiff whaff, the sport of Kings'

  Series 1, Boswell's Life of Johnson

  Duration: 2:09

• 'He gave me a Pinter Pause'

  Boswell meets playwright Harold Pinter but finds himself the victim of a betrayal.

  Duration: 1:32

• 'Kiss my poodle'

  Boswell meets Maria Callas and finds himself in an opera of his own making.

  Duration: 1:54

• 'Good morning, Doctor Freud I presume...'

  Boswell attempts to write a biography of Sigmund Freud, but Freud asks all the questions.

  Duration: 1:38

• The faces behind Boswell's Lives