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Write Around the World with Richard E Grant

How much of Pliny's information did Robert Harris includein the novel?

How much of Pliny's information did Robert Harris include
in the novel?

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How much of Pliny's information
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did Robert Harris include in the novel?
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6 seconds
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Timestamp in Movie
00:32:24
Uploaded
May 21, 2025
Season
1
Episode
1
Genres
documentary
Production
Storyvault Films

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Richard E Grant packs his clothes and a bag of books and travels to the locations authors have fictionalised to gain a sense of the places that inspired their novels.
S01 • E01 Even if I have to say that Pliny was, on the one end, - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:11
Even if I have to say that Pliny was, on the one end,
S01 • E03 Erm, if you're not brought up - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:08
Erm, if you're not brought up
S01 • E03 ..that's the tradition and culture - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:07
..that's the tradition and culture
S01 • E01 They had no idea it was a volcano. - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:04
They had no idea it was a volcano.
S01 • E01 They just called it 'the mountain', - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:05
They just called it 'the mountain',
S01 • E02 I Skyped with my mother the other day and she said, - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:08
I Skyped with my mother the other day and she said,
S01 • E03 For Hemingway, the bullring remained the perfect arena - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:11
For Hemingway, the bullring remained the perfect arena
S01 • E01 There had been previous eruptions, - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:18
There had been previous eruptions,
S01 • E02 "My hair has gone grey." - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:06
"My hair has gone grey."
S01 • E03 "Bullfighting...", he wrote, "..is the only art - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:22
"Bullfighting...", he wrote, "..is the only a...
S01 • E02 Nothing like your Ma to tell you how it is. - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:04
Nothing like your Ma to tell you how it is.
S01 • E02 Hopefully a restorative weekend on the Cote d'Azur - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:06
Hopefully a restorative weekend on the Cote d'Azur
S01 • E01 Richard: "It was imposing for a provincial town - - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:11
Richard: "It was imposing for a provincial town -
S01 • E02 The moment you're here slightly beyond the season, - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:11
The moment you're here slightly beyond the season,
S01 • E03 It's thought that when the civil war broke out - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:09
It's thought that when the civil war broke out
S01 • E01 "Three or four dozen statues of emperors and local worthies - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:06
"Three or four dozen statues of emperors and local wort...
S01 • E02 And the quality of the light - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:05
And the quality of the light
S01 • E03 Some of them were writers, like George Orwell - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:11
Some of them were writers, like George Orwell
S01 • E02 ..you feel and understand why painters and writers - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:09
..you feel and understand why painters and writers
S01 • E01 "A web work of wooden scaffolding - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:05
"A web work of wooden scaffolding