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An Awfully Big Adventure

1998

1 season

6 episodes

Documentary

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Ep 1
1.E Nesbit
31-03-199830m
Documentary series on modern children's literature. 1 of 6: Author of `The Phoenix and the Carpet' ans `The Railway Children', Edith Nesbit was the first modern children's writer....
Ep 2
2.Kenneth Grahame
07-02-199830m
Documentary on modern children's literature. 2 of 6: Since its publication in 1908, Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows has been read by, and to, generations of children. The...
Ep 3
3.Arthur Ransome
14-02-199830m
Documentary series on modern children's literature. 3 of 6: The testimony of friends, relatives and admirers contributes to a portrait of the author of `Swallows and Amazons', expl...
Ep 4
4.J R R Tolkien
21-02-199830m
Documentary series examining prominent children's writers. 4 of 6: The Lord of the Rings is now recognised as a literary classic, the language and spirit of its `Middle Earth' embr...
Ep 5
5.Dr Suess
28-02-199830m
Documentary series examining the lives of prominent children's authors. 5 of 6: Dr Suess was the pseudonym of author-illustrator Ted Geisel. Although his first marriage ended in tr...
Ep 6
6.Roald Dahl
07-03-199830m
Documentary series focusing on the lives of modern children's writers. 6 of 6: Features Roald Dahl, wartime pilot, sometime spy and creator of `The BFG', `James and the Giant Peach...

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