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audio preview image Emily Bronte at Haworth21 February 1973This programme deals with the conditions under which Emily Bronte wrote and with the influence that...
audio preview image Charles Dickens and 'Great Expectations'07 March 1973'Great Expectations' is considered and the autobiographical elements within it are traced. The...
audio preview image Charles Dickens : childhood in Victorian literature21 March 1973This programme looks at childhood as it is portrayed in Dickens and, briefly, in other Victorian...
audio preview image The novel and television 121 March 1973In this programme Arnold Kettle makes general points about simplification, changes in the order of...
audio preview image The Victorian reading public18 April 1973This programme examines the various forms of popular fiction and literature in the Victorian period.
audio preview image Henry James and 'What Maisie knew' : structure...24 April 1973This programme argues that Henry James reflects the society if the 'naughty nineties' through the...
audio preview image Hardy and 'Jude the obscure'06 June 1973This programme examines two of the themes in Hardy's novel 'Jude the Obscure'. It's presented by...
audio preview image Mansfield Park : improvement07 February 1973The fashionable alteration of existing parks or gardens - improvement, as it was called - is the...
audio preview image Germinal18 July 1973In this programme John Berger talks about Zola's novel 'Germinal' and illustrates his subject with...
audio preview image The novel and television 201 August 1973In this programme Arnold Kettle makes a detailed analysis of the two genres, using sequences from...