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The Secret Life of BooksSeries 1Episodes

    Frankenstein

    Alice Roberts finds evidence of Mary Shelley's husband Percy's help with Frankenstein.

    Jane Eyre

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

    The Mabinogion

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

    Mrs Dalloway

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

    Shakespeare's First Folio

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

    Great Expectations

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