The Secret Life of Books Episode Rating Graph
Sep 2014 - Nov 2015
Sep 2014 - Nov 2015
9.3
Browse episode ratings trends for The Secret Life of Books. Simply click on the interactive rating graph to explore the best and worst of The Secret Life of Books's 12 episodes.
S2 Ep6
10.0
16th Nov 2015
Former journalist and keen amateur sailor John Sergeant takes to the water in the wake of the plucky young heroes of Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons, and learns how a globe-trotting foreign correspondent and acquaintance of Lenin and Trotsky came to perfect a new, more authentic kind of children's literature that featured real children doing real things in real places.
S1 Ep6
9.0
2nd Nov 2014
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein has become synonymous monsters and the dangers of science without morals. Author and scientist Professor Alice Roberts returns to the original text to explore the myths of the novel and what Shelley originally intended Frankenstein to be about.
S1 Ep1
8.3
2nd Sep 2014
Great Expectations has often been considered one of Charles Dickens's greatest works. EastEnders screenwriter Tony Jordan explores Dickens's success as a serial writer and how Dickens could never keep his own personal problems out of his novels.
S1 Ep4
8.3
23rd Sep 2014
The Mabinogion is a collection of 11 ancient folk tales that is considered Wales' most important contribution to European literature. Cerys Matthews explores the fascinating history of the collection and how it influenced fantasy such as J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings.
S1 Ep1
8.3
2nd Sep 2014
Great Expectations has often been considered one of Charles Dickens's greatest works. EastEnders screenwriter Tony Jordan explores Dickens's success as a serial writer and how Dickens could never keep his own personal problems out of his novels.
S1 Ep2
8.5
9th Sep 2014
Actor Simon Russell Beale has dedicated most of his professional life to the work of one man: The Bard, William Shakespeare. In Shakespeare's time, original manuscripts were thrown away, so without The First Folio, many of Shakespeare's works would have been lost forever.
S1 Ep3
8.5
16th Sep 2014
English writer Virginia Woolf is one of the most fascinating novelists of the twentieth century. Presenter Alexandra Harris explores Woolf's 1925 novel Mrs. Dalloway and how the writing reflected the unstable society following the World War One.
S1 Ep4
8.3
23rd Sep 2014
The Mabinogion is a collection of 11 ancient folk tales that is considered Wales' most important contribution to European literature. Cerys Matthews explores the fascinating history of the collection and how it influenced fantasy such as J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings.
S1 Ep5
8.3
30th Sep 2014
Novelist Bidisha Mamata first read Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre when she was a teenager and was captivated by Jane's liberating journey into adulthood. But upon revisiting the book, Bidisha challenges the romanticism of Brontë's classic novel.
S1 Ep6
9.0
2nd Nov 2014
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein has become synonymous monsters and the dangers of science without morals. Author and scientist Professor Alice Roberts returns to the original text to explore the myths of the novel and what Shelley originally intended Frankenstein to be about.
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The first episode of The Secret Life of Books aired on September 02, 2014.
The last episode of The Secret Life of Books aired on November 16, 2015.
There are 12 episodes of The Secret Life of Books.
There are 2 seasons of The Secret Life of Books.
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The Secret Life of Books has ended.