Synopsis
Daisy Goodwin presents a series about the romantic novel. This edition looks at romantic heroines, who have frequently reflected the times and often created ground-breaking role models for women. Daisy visits the set of the BBC's new Jane Eyre and also spends a day with a Yorkshire book group who give a contemporary opinion of some well-known twentieth century heroines. Other interviewees include Barbara Taylor Bradford, Sophie Kinsella and Marina Warner.
Essential Poems (To Fall in Love With) | 05: Love in a Life
Actors Prunella Scales , Christopher Lee and Matthew Macfadyen appear in the last of the series, reading poems by Betjeman, RS Thomas and Yeats that celebrate a love expected to last a lifetime and those that help with survival when it all goes wrong.
Essential Poems (To Fall in Love With) | 04: Grass is Greener
Prunella Scales recites Moyra Donaldson's Infidelities, Amanda Holden reflects on Loss by Wendy Cope, and Damian Lewis reads Jealousy by Rupert Brooke.