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Richard narrates: Adam Thorpe
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Write Around the World with Richard E Grant

Adam Thorpe is a Booker Prize-nominatedwriter who, like Stevenson,was attracted to the...

Richard narrates: Adam Thorpe is a Booker Prize-nominated
writer who, like Stevenson,
was attracted to the Cevennes both for its wildness and because it was cheap

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Richard narrates: Adam Thorpe
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is a Booker Prize-nominated writer
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who, like Stevenson, was attracted to the Cevennes
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both for its wildness
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and because it was cheap.
Duration
10 seconds
Views
42
Timestamp in Movie
00:06:54
Uploaded
May 21, 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 "Oh, city of the gypsies, corners hung with banners, - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:08
"Oh, city of the gypsies, corners hung with banners,
S01 • E01 Now a major TV series as well as one of the most extraordinary - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:21
Now a major TV series as well as one of the most extraordina...
S01 • E03 "Oh, city of gypsies, - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:07
"Oh, city of gypsies,
S01 • E02 He's lived in the area for 30 years, - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:11
He's lived in the area for 30 years,
S01 • E03 "City of musk and sorrow, city of cinnamon towers. - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:05
"City of musk and sorrow, city of cinnamon towers.
S01 • E03 "As the night was coming, the night so nightly night, - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:09
"As the night was coming, the night so nightly night,
S01 • E02 We met in the picturesque town of Saint-Jean-du-Gard, - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:06
We met in the picturesque town of Saint-Jean-du-Gard,
S01 • E01 Although 'Ferrante' is a pseudonym - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:09
Although 'Ferrante' is a pseudonym
S01 • E02 I mean, it says on the cover, - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:09
I mean, it says on the cover,
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?