The Beauty of Books (2011)

Name: The Beauty of Books
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2011-02-07
Rating: 0.0
Cast: Richard Dormer, Stephen Bayley, Rick Gekoski, Michelle Brown, Christopher de Hamel

Documentary

Series combining human stories, expert interviews, book illustrations and historic archive to reveal the beauty of books.

First Air Date: February 7, 2011
Seasons: 1
Episodes: 4

Cast: Richard Dormer, Stephen Bayley, Rick Gekoski, Michelle Brown, Christopher de Hamel, Alison Bailey, Andrew Biswell, Alixe Bovey

Network: BBC Four

Production: BBC, Tern TV

miniseries books

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Seasons

Season 1

4 episodes

2011

Full Cast (25 people)

Richard Dormer as Narrator
Stephen Bayley as Himself - Author & Design Critic
Rick Gekoski as Himself - Writer & Rare Book Dealer
Michelle Brown as Herself - University of London
Christopher de Hamel as Himself - Corpus Christi College Cambridge
Alison Bailey as Herself - Curator British Library
Andrew Biswell as Himself - Burgess Biographer
Alixe Bovey as Herself - University of Kent
Michael Foreman as Himself - Illustrator
John Gray as Himself - Designer
Carolyne Larrington as Herself - St. John's College Oxford
Patricia Lovett as Herself - Scribe & Illustrator
Edward Maggs as Himself - Rare Book Dealer
John McConnell as Himself - Designer
Scot McKendrick as Himself - British Library
Paul W. Nash as Himself - Bodleian Library Oxford
David Parker as Himself - University of Birmingham
Sebastian Peake as Himself
David Pearson as Himself - Designer
David Pelham as Himself - Designer
Wesley Rykalski as Himself - Historical Researcher
Janet Soskice as Herself - University of Cambridge
D.J. Taylor as Himself - Orwell Biographer
John Vernon as Himself
Edward Wakeling as Himself - Editor of Lewis Carroll's Diaries

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The Beauty of Books

Documentary

The Beauty of Books

Documentary

0.0

30 min

2011

1 seasons

Series combining human stories, expert interviews, book illustrations and historic archive to reveal the beauty of books.

0.0

30 min

2011

Series combining human stories, expert interviews, book illustrations and historic archive to reveal the beauty of books.

Networks & Studios

Networks

BBC Four

Production Companies

BBC

Tern TV

Show Information

StatusEnded

TypeDocumentary

First Aired2/7/2011

Last Aired2/28/2011

Seasons1

Episodes4

LanguageEnglish

CountryUnited Kingdom

Creators & Crew

Produced by

Seasons

Episodes

30m

Per Episode

2011

First Aired

Keywords

miniseries books

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External Links

More Info:

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Cast

Richard Dormer

as Narrator

Stephen Bayley

as Himself - Author & Design Critic

Rick Gekoski

as Himself - Writer & Rare Book Dealer

Michelle Brown

as Herself - University of London

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Christopher de Hamel

as Himself - Corpus Christi College Cambridge

Alison Bailey

as Herself - Curator British Library

Andrew Biswell

as Himself - Burgess Biographer

Alixe Bovey

as Herself - University of Kent

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