JUST READ WITH MICHAEL ROSEN; documentary; investigation into strategies to increase reading amongst young children in Springwood Primary School, Cardiff; childreńs literature; standards of literacy; reading habits; books; novels; Poet Laureate Michael Rosen; reading skills; involvement of parents; teaching; National Curriculum; difference between boys and girls; libraries; public library; writing; poetry; subtitles; Reading Week; producer/director ́ Deborah Perkin (1hr)

WHY READING MATTERS; science documentary; effect of reading on brain structure and function; neuroscience; biology; understanding; psychology of reading; human behaviour; Rita Carter; visual skills; object recognition; written language; plasticity of brain; enlarged Hippocampus of taxi drivers; the Knowledge; effect of brain injury; comprehension; learning to read; language of William Shakespeare; fiction narrative; stories; Wuthering Heights; Emily Bronté; Bronté sisters; Tom Parker; empathy; understanding; autism; Simon Baron-Cohen; amygdale; mirror neurones; MEG; Magnetoencephalography; brain imaging technology; language processing; reading therapy; Rader Organisation book group; effect of new digital media on reading; computer video games; Naomi Alderman; subtitles; producer/director ́ Chris Hale (1hr)

SAMUEL JOHNSON - THE DICTIONARY MAN; arts documentary - profile and biography of C18 lexicographer Samuel Johnson; compilation of dictionary; lexicography; English language; definition and useage of words; Tourette's Syndrome; dramatic reconstruction of life; drama documentary; Cetury That Made Us Season; docudrama; publishing; producer - Paul Kerr; director - Richard Alwyn (1hr)

HOW READING MADE US MODERN; arts documentary by Professor John Mullan; history of reading as a cultural pastime; C17 and C18 Britain ́ social background; literature; culture; control of printing and publishing; Licensing ActBible; John Bunyan ́ Pilgriḿs Progress; Bill of Rights; booksellers; bookselling; spread of information; newspapers; news; Daily Courant; coffee houses; house; Spectator; public opinion; book binding; books as social signifiers; William Beckford; reading aloud; Johnsońs Dictionary; Samuel Johnson; British Library ́ Kinǵs Library; class; window tax; public reading; literacy; charity schools; education; chapbooks; Alan Ramsay ́ circulating library; lending; Bluestockings; access to books by womeń novel; fiction; Pamela ́ Samuel Richardson; female book groups; subtitles; producer/director ́ Sarah Howitt (1hr) F

2009