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| Adventures In Poetry | ...Contributors include RICHARD HOLMES and Rageh Omar.... |
| Age Of Wonder, The | ...Douglas Hodge reads RICHARD HOLMES' account of the scientific ferment that swept through Britain in the late-18th century.... |
| Anaesthesia | ...By RICHARD HOLMES. Drawing on original documents and notebooks, the story of the time in 1799 when, in a town house on the banks of the River Avon in Bristol, Humphry Davy, later celebrated for his miners lamp, came within a breath of discovering the anaesthetic powers of nitrous oxide.... |
| Archive Hour, The | ...On the eve of Remembrance Sunday, Professor RICHARD HOLMES tells the forgotten story of the Allied occupation of Germany after the First World War. He reveals how young soldiers who had known nothing but war were affected by everyday life among the enemy.... |
| Cloud In A Paper Bag, A | ...This drama-documentary by biographer RICHARD HOLMES tells the story of the first decades of ballooning 200 years ago.... |
| Frankenstein Project, The | ...A drama documentary presented by RICHARD HOLMES exploring the creation and impact of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.... |
| Great Lives | ...Military historian RICHARD HOLMES nominates The Man In The Iron Mask, and Humphrey Carpenter is joined in the studio by historian John Noone to reveal the man behind the Mask. But is this a real life of a great legend?... |
| Ian Mcmillan's Writing Lab | ...Aided by novelist and biographer D J Taylor, Ian explores the techniques behind the memoir. Contributors include Michael Holroyd, Hanif Kureishi, RICHARD HOLMES and Horatio Clare, whose writing hovers on the boundary between fact and fiction.... |
| Index, The | ...Five different indexes, as seen by Chris Bigsby. 5: `The Biography'. Christopher Bigsby meets biographer RICHARD HOLMES and his indexer Douglas Matthews at the home of the creator of fake indexes, Malcolm Bradbury.... |
| Kubla Coleridge | ...RICHARD HOLMES travels in the footsteps of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and looks for the origins of his poem `Kubla Khan' in the landscapes of Coleridge's youth. He also looks at the poet's drug addiction, his interest in science and discoveries, and his wish to craft a romantic myth. With contributions from Lewis Wolpert, Stevie Smith, John Henry and Andrew Mackenzie.... |
| Making History | ...Military historian Professor RICHARD HOLMES explains how the militia worked in the 18th century, and Andy Cassell reports from Scotland on Britain's only private army.... |
| Map Of British Poetry, A | ...... |
| March, The | ...RICHARD HOLMES explores the history and emotional impact of the march and marching music.... |
| Radio 4 At The Word | ...by RICHARD HOLMES, read by John Rowe. The little-known story of fair Esther and her cat, and the profound effect they were to have on the work of Dr Johnson, especially his great `Dictionary of the English Language'.... |
| Runaway Lives | ...Four programmes in which RICHARD HOLMES follows in the footsteps of some of the great literary elopements. 1: Shelley and Mary and Clare. In 1814 the young romantic poet Shelley, with a desirable girl on each arm, ran away from his wife and baby to the Swiss Alps and lakes, in search of liberty and love.... |
| Sidetracks | ...John Sessions reads five enchanting digressions about literary lives by biographer RICHARD HOLMES. Abridged by Jill Waters. 1: `Letters from Paris'. A record of the author's time in Paris.... |
| Summer Pleasures | ...Biographer RICHARD HOLMES talks about his favourite summer pastime of sailing.... |
| Sunday Feature | ...A drama-documentary presented by RICHARD HOLMES exploring the creation and impact of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.... |
| Writers' Masterclass | ...Three programmes in which top writers talk about practical skills and share trade secrets with fellow wordsmith Blake Morrison. 3: RICHARD HOLMES and Claire Tomalin discuss biography.... |