Writers' Houses
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Play S1 E1Where did great authors of the past live and work? How much was their work affected by the places in which they lived?
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- 1. Charles Darwin Lived HereIn the first programme of a new series about the writer's world, Jonathan Miller visits Down House in Kent where Darwin wrote Origin of Species.CCJun 7, 1973
- 2. Thomas Hardy Lived HereIn the second programme of this series about the writer's world John Arlott visits Hardy's Dorset.CCJun 14, 1973
- 3. Jane Austen Lived HereIn the third programme of this series about the writer's world, Lord David Cecil visits Chawton, the Hampshire village where Jane Austen wrote "Mansfield Park", "Emma" and "Persuasion".CCJun 21, 1973
- 4. The Brontes Lived HereIn the fourth programme of this series about the writer's world, Margaret Drabble visits Haworth Parsonage and the Yorkshire Moors where the Bronte's shared an almost legendary childhood and which provided the setting for "Wuthering Heights".CCJul 12, 1973
- 5. Rudyard Kipling Lived HereIn the fifth programme of this series about the writer's world, Kingsley Amis visits Batemans, the Jacobean house in Sussex where Kipling spent the last 30 years of his life.CCJul 19, 1973
- 6. William Cowper Lived HereIn the sixth programme of this series about the writer's world, P.J. Kavanagh visits Olney in Buckinghamshire and the house in which Cowper wrote some of the most famous English hymns and the comic poem John Gilpin.CCJul 26, 1973
- 7. Sir Walter Scott Lived HereIn the seventh programme of this series about the writer's world, Lady Antonia Fraser visits Abbotsford and explores the extraordinary house which was the fulfilment of a Scottish writer's dream.CCAug 2, 1973
- 8. Laurence Sterne Lived HereIn the last programme of this series about the writer's world, Michael Frayn visits Shandy Hall, the country rectory near York where Sterne wrote one of the funniest of all English novels.CCAug 9, 1973
Writers' Houses
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Where did great authors of the past live and work? How much was their work affected by the places in which they lived?
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