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Faulks On Fiction

Season 1 2011

  • 2011-02-05T21:00:00Z on BBC Two
  • 1h
  • 4h (4 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Documentary
Best-selling author Sebastian Faulks presents a major four part series on the brilliance of the British novel and its characters.

4 episodes

Series Premiere

2011-02-05T21:00:00Z

1x01 The Hero

Series Premiere

1x01 The Hero

  • 2011-02-05T21:00:00Z1h

In this episode, Faulks looks at how the hero in literature and ideas of heroism have evolved over the last 300 years, from Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe to Martin Amis's John Self.

2011-02-12T21:00:00Z

1x02 The Lover

1x02 The Lover

  • 2011-02-12T21:00:00Z1h

In episode two of Sebastian Faulks's series on the English novel, he looks at how literary lovers have taught us the truth about love, from Jane Austen's Mr Darcy to Alan Hollinghurst's Nick Guest.

2011-02-19T21:00:00Z

1x03 The Snob

1x03 The Snob

  • 2011-02-19T21:00:00Z1h

Sebastian Faulks looks at how novelists from Jane Austen to Monica Ali have

used snobs as their secret weapon.

With contributions from Tim Lott, Alain de Botton, John Carey and Monica Ali.

2011-02-26T21:00:00Z

1x04 The Villain

1x04 The Villain

  • 2011-02-26T21:00:00Z1h

Sebastian looks at how the characterization of the villain has grown in British novels over the past 3 centuries, from Lovelace in Samuel Richardson's Clarissa to Barbara in Zoe Heller's Notes on a Scandal.

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