Television
The Woman Behind "Little Women"
Documentary
Official Website
PBS site with video |
Monday, December 28th.
Check your local listing |
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"Louisa May Alcott, the author of Little Women, is an almost universally recognized name. Her reputation as a morally upstanding New England spinster, reflecting the conventional propriety of mid-19th century Concord, is firmly established. Raised among reformers, iconoclasts and Transcendentalists, the intellectual protégé of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, Alcott was actually a free thinker, with democratic ideals and progressive values about women – a worldly careerist of sorts. Most surprising is that Alcott led, anonymously and under the pseudonym A.M. Barnard, a literary double life not discovered until the 1940s. As Barnard, Alcott penned some thirty pulp fiction thrillers, with characters running the gamut from murderers and revolutionaries to cross-dressers and opium addicts – a far cry from her better-known works featuring fatherly mentors, courageous mothers and impish children." |
| Cranford Christmas Special 2009 |
UK Dec 20 and 27
US Jan 10 and 17 |
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he multi-award-winning Cranford returns to entertain and enthral BBC One audiences this Christmas with a two-part special.
Dame Judi Dench reprises her role as Cranford's much cherished Miss Matty Jenkyns, and heads a cast that boasts Britain's top film, television and stage talent including Cranford newcomers: Jonathan Pryce, Celia Imrie, Lesley Sharp, Nicholas Le Prevost, Jodie Whittaker, Tom Hiddleston, Michelle Dockery, Matthew McNulty, Rory Kinnear and Tim Curry. |
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