The Secret Life of Books Episodes Available now
- All
- Available now (14)
- Next on (0)
![](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/320x180/p040f2wd.jpg)
The Water-Babies—The Secret Life of Children's Books
2/2 The revolutionary science behind The Water-Babies and its influence on social reform.
![](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/320x180/p03zvqk4.jpg)
Five Children and It—The Secret Life of Children's Books
1/2 How Edith Nesbit created a new kind of children's fiction, a blend of magic and realism.
![](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/320x180/p037l49n.jpg)
Swallows and Amazons—Series 2
6/6 How Arthur Ransome perfected a new, more authentic kind of children's literature.
![](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/320x180/p0370jpr.jpg)
Cider with Rosie—Series 2
5/6 How Laurie Lee blended fact and fiction in his elegy to a disappeared rural world.
![](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/320x180/p036cwxz.jpg)
Confessions of an English Opium Eater—Series 2
4/6 John Cooper Clarke explores Thomas de Quincey's addiction memoir.
![](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/320x180/p035vk1k.jpg)
The Mill on the Floss—Series 2
3/6 Fiona Shaw explores the genesis of George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss.
![](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/320x180/p0350n29.jpg)
Edward Lear's Nonsense Songs—Series 2
2/6 Nicholas Parsons explores the fine line between joy and melancholy in Lear's writing.
![](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/320x180/p0342lyl.jpg)
The Faerie Queene—Series 2
1/6 Dr Janina Ramirez unravels Edmund Spenser's Elizabethan epic The Faerie Queene.
![](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/320x180/p0260xy6.jpg)
Frankenstein—Series 1
Alice Roberts finds evidence of Mary Shelley's husband Percy's help with Frankenstein.
![](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/320x180/p0260xr1.jpg)
Jane Eyre—Series 1
Bidisha revisits Charlotte Bronte's classic novel after first reading it as a teenager.