Bill Bryson - Notes from a Small Island
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Having first disembarked upon Britain's windswept shores in 1973, Iowa-born
writer Bill Bryson spent the best part of two decades living among the
inhabitants of our small, often charming and occasionally exasperating island.
In 1998, inspired by his best-selling book Notes from a Small Island, Bill
returned to his adopted country for a humorous and affectionate television
safari conducted over six episodes. This series saw him journeying from Dover to
John O'Groats while trying to explain what it was that first attracted him to
this land of rain, sweet tea and disagreeable landladies.
Between hailing a London cab driven by Stephen Fry, analysing Scouse humour with
Alexei Sayle and conversing with Victoria Wood in a Bournemouth beach hut, Bill
puts it all into perspective taking in blue plaques, ballroom dancers, fell
runners, cable tossers and churches called St Andrew-by-the-Wardrobe along the
way...