Season 1 poster

Season 1

(2011)

Cast

Richard Dormer as Narrator
Richard Dormer

as Narrator

Stephen Bayley as Himself - Author & Design Critic
Stephen Bayley

as Himself - Author & Design Critic

Rick Gekoski as Himself - Writer & Rare Book Dealer
Rick Gekoski

as Himself - Writer & Rare Book Dealer

Michelle Brown as Herself - University of London
Michelle Brown

as Herself - University of London

Christopher de Hamel as Himself - Corpus Christi College Cambridge
Christopher de Hamel

as Himself - Corpus Christi College Cambridge

Alison Bailey as Herself - Curator British Library
Alison Bailey

as Herself - Curator British Library

Andrew Biswell as Himself - Burgess Biographer
Andrew Biswell

as Himself - Burgess Biographer

Alixe Bovey as Herself - University of Kent
Alixe Bovey

as Herself - University of Kent

Michael Foreman as Himself - Illustrator
Michael Foreman

as Himself - Illustrator

John Gray as Himself - Designer
John Gray

as Himself - Designer

Carolyne Larrington as Herself - St. John's College Oxford
Carolyne Larrington

as Herself - St. John's College Oxford

Patricia Lovett as Herself - Scribe & Illustrator
Patricia Lovett

as Herself - Scribe & Illustrator

Edward Maggs as Himself - Rare Book Dealer
Edward Maggs

as Himself - Rare Book Dealer

John McConnell as Himself - Designer
John McConnell

as Himself - Designer

Scot McKendrick as Himself - British Library
Scot McKendrick

as Himself - British Library

Paul W. Nash as Himself - Bodleian Library Oxford
Paul W. Nash

as Himself - Bodleian Library Oxford

David Parker as Himself - University of Birmingham
David Parker

as Himself - University of Birmingham

Sebastian Peake as Himself
Sebastian Peake

as Himself

David Pearson as Himself - Designer
David Pearson

as Himself - Designer

David Pelham as Himself - Designer
David Pelham

as Himself - Designer

Wesley Rykalski as Himself - Historical Researcher
Wesley Rykalski

as Himself - Historical Researcher

Janet Soskice as Herself - University of Cambridge
Janet Soskice

as Herself - University of Cambridge

D.J. Taylor as Himself - Orwell Biographer
D.J. Taylor

as Himself - Orwell Biographer

John Vernon as Himself
John Vernon

as Himself

Edward Wakeling as Himself - Editor of Lewis Carroll's Diaries
Edward Wakeling

as Himself - Editor of Lewis Carroll's Diaries

Episodes

Ancient Bibles poster

Ancient Bibles 0.0

February 7, 2011

The British Library in London is home to 14 million books, on shelves that stretch over 600km. Extraordinary vessels of…

Medieval Masterpieces poster

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February 14, 2011

The medieval era was the heyday of illuminated manuscripts. In the 14th and 15th centuries, there was a flowering of re…

Illustrated Wonderlands poster

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February 21, 2011

The Victorians were masters of illustrated books, especially for children. Thanks to an emerging middle class readershi…

Paperback Writer poster

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February 28, 2011

The paperback book democratized reading in the 20th century, and printing directly onto the covers became a way of sell…