2. Literary Passages

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.