Bookmark (TV series)

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Bookmark
Genre Documentary
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Release
Original network BBC Two
Original release28 September 1983 (1983-09-28) 
4 April 1999 (1999-04-04)

Bookmark is a BBC documentary series about literature, and in particular the lives of authors, broadcast on BBC Two from 1983 to 1999. The first episode was described in the Radio Times as offering insight into "the stories behind the books you read" and was a magazine format presented by Simon Winchester (1983), later Ian Hamilton (1984–1987). [1] [2]

Later series were mostly single or two part film studies of an author and his or her works, along similar lines to Arena and Omnibus . These included Philip Larkin, A.S. Byatt, H. G. Wells, Enid Blyton and Rev. W Awdry ("The Thomas the Tank Engine Man"). [1] The current director of the British Library, Roly Keating, was editor of the programme from 1993 to 1996. [3] [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Bookmark". BBC Genome Project. 31 October 2019.
  2. "Bookmark". BFI Collections. Retrieved 22 December 2020.
  3. People in the News – Roly Keating. 2003. pp. 226–29. doi: 10.1629/2048-7754.125 .{{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)