All Seasons

Season 1

• S01E01 Boswell's Boswell

  • BBC One

  James Boswell

• S01E02 Samuel Beckett: As the Story Was Told

  • BBC One

• S01E03 Vikram Seth: A Suitable Boy

  • BBC One

• S01E04 Robert Burns: The Ploughboy of the Western World

  • BBC One

• S01E05 Rumer Godden: An Indian Affair

  • BBC One

• S01E06 P.D. James

  • BBC One

• S01E07 Albert Camus: The Madness of Sincerity

  • November 2, 1999
  • BBC One

  Profiling existentialist writer Albert Camus (1913-60), including interviews with his former mistresses and Camus' daughter Catherine and her twin brother Jean, who talk about Camus and their feelings for him. Looks at his life and work, with letters and extracts read by Brian Cox.

• S01E08 Sir John Betjeman

  • BBC One

  Poet Laureate John Betjeman

• S01E09 Edith Wharton: A Lady Does Not Write

  • March 23, 2000
  • BBC One

• S01E10 The Last Journey of John Keats

  • BBC One

• S01E11 I, Graves: The Lives and Loves of an English Poet

  • BBC One

  Robert Graves

• S01E12 Charlotte Bronte Unmasked

  • BBC One

• S01E13 Doris Lessing: A Part of Me

  • BBC One