In Episode 2, Melvyn Bragg examines literary London, from William Wordsworth to Martin Amis.Starting with Wordsworth's celebration of a London dawn, written at Tower Bridge, Bragg travels by river boat and double-decker bus to explore the capital's rich literary history.Novelisy Martin Amis reads from Dickens, and Boris Johnson MP from an 18th-century issue of The Spectator.Bragg also discovers treasures from sources as diverse as the Illustrated London News and detective fiction: |
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Title: | London and the Thames | |
Air Date: | April 13, 2008 | |
Runtime: | 60 min | |
Genres: | Travel | |
random000 : Series makes good use of the work of Phillip K. Dick in just 10 episodes.