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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 living among the inhabitants of our small, often charming and occasionalIy exasperating island.
In 1998, inspired by his best-selIing book Notes from a SmalI lsland, BiIl returned to his adopted country for this humorous and affectionate television safari conducted over six episodes. This series saw him journeying from Dover to John O Groats while trying to expIain what it was that first attracted him to this Iand of rain, sweet tea and disagreeabIe IandIadies.
Between haiIing a London cab driven by Stephen Fry, analysing 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, felI runners, cabIe tossers and churches caIled St Andrew-by-the-wardrobe aIong the way... |
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