The Secret Life of BooksSeries 1Episodes Episode guide

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1. Jane Eyre

   Bidisha revisits Charlotte Bronte's classic novel after first reading it as a teenager.
2. The Mabinogion

   Cerys Matthews tells the story of one of the literary treasures of the medieval world.
3. Mrs Dalloway

   How Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway re-imagined what a novel might be.
4. Frankenstein

   Alice Roberts finds evidence of Mary Shelley's husband Percy's help with Frankenstein.
5. Shakespeare's First Folio

   Simon Russell Beale looks at what we can learn from Shakespeare's First Folio.
6. Great Expectations

   Tony Jordan brings his writer's insight to Charles Dickens's Great Expectations.