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Write Around the World with Richard E Grant

I mean, it says on the cover, "Half a lifetimein provincial France." So, three decades...

I mean, it says on the cover, "Half a lifetime
in provincial France." So, three decades ago,
you escaped Thatcher's Britain?

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I mean, it says on the cover,
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"Half a lifetime in provincial France."
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So, three decades ago, you escaped Thatcher's Britain?
Duration
9 seconds
Views
27
Timestamp in Movie
00:07:24
Uploaded
May 22, 2025
Season
1
Episode
2
Genres
documentary
Production
Storyvault Films

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Movie Summary

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 • E03 Lorca described Gypsy Ballads as being a book - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:13
Lorca described Gypsy Ballads as being a book
S01 • E01 As you walk through these alleyways, - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:09
As you walk through these alleyways,
S01 • E03 From spending time with the gypsies, - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:07
From spending time with the gypsies,
S01 • E02 And it was a wonderful experience because I felt... - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:04
And it was a wonderful experience because I felt...
S01 • E03 For him, it embodied the Spanish concept - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:08
For him, it embodied the Spanish concept
S01 • E02 We lived very simply, - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:09
We lived very simply,
S01 • E03 Juan Pinilla is one of Spain's - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:08
Juan Pinilla is one of Spain's
S01 • E01 Richard: just in the way that the book gives you a view - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:06
Richard: just in the way that the book gives you a view
S01 • E02 They had accepted and welcomed a kind of poverty - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:09
They had accepted and welcomed a kind of poverty
S01 • E01 Yeah, we are about to step into this old bottega - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:13
Yeah, we are about to step into this old bottega
S01 • E03 Please, can you tell me about duende, what that means? - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:05
Please, can you tell me about duende, what that means?
S01 • E02 - So, what prompted Stevenson to make the journey on foot, - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:08
- So, what prompted Stevenson to make the journey on foot,
S01 • E03 Yes, though duende is so difficult to translate, - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:12
Yes, though duende is so difficult to translate,
S01 • E02 Well, he was unhappy in love, - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:07
Well, he was unhappy in love,
S01 • E01 It's almost like the author Ferrante taking us into - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:12
It's almost like the author Ferrante taking us into
S01 • E03 - So, do you feel that this heightened emotion - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:07
- So, do you feel that this heightened emotion
S01 • E02 I think, first of all, he was very attracted - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:08
I think, first of all, he was very attracted
S01 • E01 I'm pretty sure Pasquale wouldn't mind - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:06
I'm pretty sure Pasquale wouldn't mind
S01 • E02 It was very close to the country that he came from, - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:07
It was very close to the country that he came from,
S01 • E01 I once had "Sophia, 70 euros a kilo" but... [laughs] - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:08
I once had "Sophia, 70 euros a kilo" but... [laugh...