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Write Around the World with Richard E Grant

But for Stevenson, it wasn't onlyabout coming down off the feather bedof civilisation

Richard narrates:
But for Stevenson, it wasn't only
about coming down off the feather bed
of civilisation

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Richard narrates: But for Stevenson,
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it wasn't only about coming down
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off the feather bed of civilisation.
Duration
6 seconds
Views
24
Timestamp in Movie
00:09:39
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 • E01 Quite isolated from the hubbub of the city centre. - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:04
Quite isolated from the hubbub of the city centre.
S01 • E01 And this is where Ferrante decided to set her books, - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:06
And this is where Ferrante decided to set her books,
S01 • E02 While Cevennes' Protestant culture was clearly something - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:19
While Cevennes' Protestant culture was clearly somethin...
S01 • E01 Now, in the books, the neighbourhood - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:04
Now, in the books, the neighbourhood
S01 • E03 Richard narrates: Hearing Lorca's words - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:08
Richard narrates: Hearing Lorca's words
S01 • E01 We know that there were parish gardens, - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:07
We know that there were parish gardens,
S01 • E03 This Spanish word that is heightened emotion, - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:14
This Spanish word that is heightened emotion,
S01 • E01 And so, as she describes, - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:04
And so, as she describes,
S01 • E02 By the time he made this trip, - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:07
By the time he made this trip,
S01 • E01 It's cornered off by the railway and the road - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:07
It's cornered off by the railway and the road
S01 • E02 So, when halfway through his journey - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:11
So, when halfway through his journey
S01 • E01 Richard narrates: The Rione Luzzatti - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:06
Richard narrates: The Rione Luzzatti
S01 • E01 A world away from the bustling market - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:13
A world away from the bustling market
S01 • E02 He approached this Trappist monastery - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:10
He approached this Trappist monastery
S01 • E03 In 1926, when Lorca was 28, - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:07
In 1926, when Lorca was 28,
S01 • E03 Lorca spent much of his time here - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:06
Lorca spent much of his time here
S01 • E01 It's so brilliantly brought to life in the books, - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:11
It's so brilliantly brought to life in the books,
S01 • E02 And this extreme Catholic monastery - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:07
And this extreme Catholic monastery
S01 • E03 But like most of Catholic Spain, his family, - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:08
But like most of Catholic Spain, his family,
S01 • E02 "A spidery cross on every hill-top marked - Write Around the World with Richard E Grant 00:21
"A spidery cross on every hill-top marked