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The Secret Life of Books - Season 3 - Episode 2 - The Secret Life of Children's Books : The Water-Babies
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Watch Series: The Secret Life of Books Released in (2014) - Season 3 - Episode 2 ,airing date 2016-07-11 produced by UK, The TV Series categorized in Documentary, and content rating N/A with duration 30 min broadcasted as these networks BBC Four, Streamed at Putlocker & directed by Jon Morrice, Bill MacLeod, Ben Ryder. Written in 1862 by the Reverend Charles Kingsley, The Water-Babies tells the story of a young chimney sweep called Tom who finds redemption amongst the pulsing life of the open ocean when he is transformed into an aquatic creature. Church of England vicar and former pop star Reverend Richard Coles dives beneath the surface of this children's classic to reveal the revolutionary science behind the story, the influence it had on social reform in Victorian England and how the author's racist viewpoints impacted its reputation.
Charles Kingsley was a man of contradictions - as changeable as the tide. He was a passionate outdoorsman who had to lock himself away during bouts of depression, a public speaker who suffered from a lifelong stammer, a social reformer who distrusted democracy, and a sensitive scholar with the instincts of a street-fighter. His most famous book, The Water-Babies, is as eccentric and compelling as he was.
Richard finds out how the book was born out of a sense of outrage at the suffering of young sweeps, and how its success led to a change in the law. He grapples with the dark side of The Water-Babies, exploring how the book's 'muscular Christianity' was tainted by racial prejudice. And he discovers how, at the same time, Kingsley's classic contained a sense of feminine spirituality seemingly at odds with whiskery Victorian stereotypes.
Richard meets Prof Steve Jones to discuss the close friendship between Charles Kingsley and Charles Darwin, whose On the Origin of Species Kingsley had been one of the first to praise. He talks to fellow Church of England priest Reverend Marie-Elsa Bragg about the book's mystical side, and visits the rectory where Kingsley wrote the first chapter of the work in half an hour under the insistence of his son.
Genre: Documentary
Actor: Samantha Bond, Cerys Matthews, Alice Roberts, John Cooper Clarke, Nicholas Parsons, Janina Ramirez, John Sergeant, Fiona Shaw, Joanna Trollope
Creators: Jon Morrice, Bill MacLeod, Ben Ryder
Writers: Richard Coles
Country: UK
Languages: en, English,
Episode: 2
Runtime: 30
Date Modified: 2018-02-21 14:49:28
Air Date: 2016-07-11
Year Released: 2014
Rating: 9.2 out of 10
Content Rating: N/A
Views: 109
Quality: HD
Networks:
BBC Four,
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