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Bill Bryson: Notes From A Small Island (The Young Ones Bambi)
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(DVD - Code 2: Englandimport) (England-Import)
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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 Iiving among the inhabitants of our small, often charming and occasionalIy exasperating island.
In 1998, inspired by his best-selIing book Notes from a SmaIl lsIand, BiII returned to his adopted country for this humorous and affectionate teIevision safari conducted over six episodes. This series saw him journeying from Dover to John O Groats whiIe trying to explain what it was that first attracted him to this Iand of rain, sweet tea and disagreeabIe Iandladies.
Between hailing a London cab driven by Stephen Fry, anaIysing Scouse humour with Alexei SayIe and conversing with Victoria Wood in a Bournemouth beach hut, BiII puts it aII into perspective taking in blue pIaques, baIIroom dancers, feII runners, cable tossers and churches caIled St Andrew-by-the-wardrobe along the way... |
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