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6/6 How Arthur Ransome perfected a new, more authentic kind of children's literature.
5/6 How Laurie Lee blended fact and fiction in his elegy to a disappeared rural world.
4/6 John Cooper Clarke explores Thomas de Quincey's addiction memoir.
3/6 Fiona Shaw explores the genesis of George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss.
2/6 Nicholas Parsons explores the fine line between joy and melancholy in Lear's writing.
1/6 Dr Janina Ramirez unravels Edmund Spenser's Elizabethan epic The Faerie Queene.
Alice Roberts finds evidence of Mary Shelley's husband Percy's help with Frankenstein.
Bidisha revisits Charlotte Bronte's classic novel after first reading it as a teenager.
