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The Water-Babies—The Secret Life of Children's Books
2/2The revolutionary science behind The Water-Babies and its influence on social reform.
Five Children and It—The Secret Life of Children's Books
1/2How Edith Nesbit created a new kind of children's fiction, a blend of magic and realism.
Swallows and Amazons—Series 2
6/6How Arthur Ransome perfected a new, more authentic kind of children's literature.
Cider with Rosie—Series 2
5/6How Laurie Lee blended fact and fiction in his elegy to a disappeared rural world.
Confessions of an English Opium Eater—Series 2
4/6John Cooper Clarke explores Thomas de Quincey's addiction memoir.
The Mill on the Floss—Series 2
3/6Fiona Shaw explores the genesis of George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss.
Edward Lear's Nonsense Songs—Series 2
2/6Nicholas Parsons explores the fine line between joy and melancholy in Lear's writing.
The Faerie Queene—Series 2
1/6Dr Janina Ramirez unravels Edmund Spenser's Elizabethan epic The Faerie Queene.
Frankenstein—Series 1
Alice Roberts finds evidence of Mary Shelley's husband Percy's help with Frankenstein.
Jane Eyre—Series 1
Bidisha revisits Charlotte Bronte's classic novel after first reading it as a teenager.
