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- Dramatization of the memoirs of Gwyn Thomas, Welsh author, raconteur, and British television personality.
- Dmitri Dostoevsky, Leningrad tram driver and great-grandson of Fyodor Dostoevsky, travels to western Europe following the footsteps of his great-grandfather's own journey in 1862. Dmitri hopes his efforts will help him realize his dream of owning a Mercedes.
- After a 14 year dry spell, novelist, Barbara Pym (Patricia Routledge) is nominated for a Booker Award in 1977 for her novel "Quartet in Autumn". This short biography follows her the day of the prize presentation, as she observes people and reminisces about life and love. The prize is awarded to someone else that year, and in 1980 Pym dies of cancer.
- An examination of the life and career of author Anne Rice, famous for her novels about vampires.
- 1983–19991h7.7 (12)TV EpisodeVisionary of the future, inventor of the new science, creator of the most terrible Utopian's societies...prophet of the human fears.
- A documentary film looking at the influence the French writer Simone de Beauvoir's work and unconventional lifestyle have had on women throughout the world. Her life story, with all its conflicting emotions and experience, is told in parallel with the stories of the women appearing in the film - all of whom cite Simone de Beauvoir as a major force in their lives, in the year that marks the 40th anniversary of the publication of her best-known book, The Second Sex.
- Rumer Godden the 88 year old author is taken back to India, where she lived from 1908-1945 to revisit her unconventional life there and to share with her daughter the experiences which inform all her writing.
- The first of a two part biography of H.G. Wells to mark the 50th anniversary of his death.
- The second of a two part biography of HG Wells to mark the 50th anniversary of his death.
- The making of the secretive writer Jerzy Kosinski.
- The Story of Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald.
- Christopher Isherwood 1904-86.
- A Bookmark Portrait of James Clavell.