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- A documentary about the life of the Rev. Wilbert Awdry.
- Dmitri Dostoevsky, Leningrad tram driver and great-grandson of Fyodor Dostoevsky, travels to western Europe following the footsteps of his great-grandfather's own journey in 1862. Dmitri hopes his efforts will help him realize his dream of owning a Mercedes.
- After a 14 year dry spell, novelist, Barbara Pym (Patricia Routledge) is nominated for a Booker Award in 1977 for her novel "Quartet in Autumn". This short biography follows her the day of the prize presentation, as she observes people and reminisces about life and love. The prize is awarded to someone else that year, and in 1980 Pym dies of cancer.
- 1983–19991h7.7 (12)TV EpisodeVisionary of the future, inventor of the new science, creator of the most terrible Utopian's societies...prophet of the human fears.
- 1983–19991h 25mTV-PG7.7 (32)TV EpisodeThe grand themes of Albert Camus' work and life are documented in three chapters: the Absurd, Revolt, and Happiness. His novels The Stranger, The Plague, The Rebel, The Fall and The First Man are all discussed, as well as his childhood in French Algeria, sometimes difficult friendships, role in The Resistance during WWII, 1957 Nobel Prize, his issues with Communism, living in exile in the '50s, and his accidental death at 47. His life is spoken about by the narrator, his sister-in-law, his son, his daughter, friends, critics, scholars and mistresses. The impression is of Camus as a charismatic, flawed, and yet principled man when it came to the task of confronting human existence without conforming.
- An examination of the life and career of author Anne Rice, famous for her novels about vampires.
- Dramatization of the memoirs of Gwyn Thomas, Welsh author, raconteur, and British television personality.
- Rumer Godden the 88 year old author is taken back to India, where she lived from 1908-1945 to revisit her unconventional life there and to share with her daughter the experiences which inform all her writing.
- A documentary film looking at the influence the French writer Simone de Beauvoir's work and unconventional lifestyle have had on women throughout the world. Her life story, with all its conflicting emotions and experience, is told in parallel with the stories of the women appearing in the film - all of whom cite Simone de Beauvoir as a major force in their lives, in the year that marks the 40th anniversary of the publication of her best-known book, The Second Sex.
- The first of a two part biography of H.G. Wells to mark the 50th anniversary of his death.
- The second of a two part biography of HG Wells to mark the 50th anniversary of his death.
- The making of the secretive writer Jerzy Kosinski.
- The Story of Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald.
- Christopher Isherwood 1904-86.
- A Bookmark Portrait of James Clavell.
- 1983–1999TV Episode
- Audrey Hall goes in search of the real Charlotte Bronte, with the help of biographers Dr Juliet Barker and Dr Lyndall Gordon.
- Live broadcast of 1983 Booker Prize, presented by Selina Scott and Simon Winchester.
- A multifaceted portrait of science fiction writer Stanislaw Lem.
- Bookmark looks at two African writers- Nuruddin Farah, author of highly acclaimed novel - 'Maps' and Don Mattera - Poet from Sophiatown.
- The life of Irish novelist, poet, and playwright Samuel Beckett is profiled from his Dublin childhood, to his days in Paris, associating with Picasso and Chagall, to old age. Excerpts from a performance of the semiautobiographical Krapp's Last Tape and previously unpublished letters tell the story, along with the remembrances of Beckett's lifelong friend and publisher, Jerome Lindon, relatives, and others who knew him.
- The bizarre truth behind the enigma of Jim Moffat , alias Richard Allen , author of the cult classic Skinhead.
- The first novel ever written, Cervantes' Don Quixote, lives on in a thousand adaptations, in film, opera, art and even computer games.
- Based on the childhood of the famous Turkish writer Yasar Kemal, the film includes reenactments in the author's hometown and the author's narration.