A.N. Wilson
Also Known As: Andrew Norman Wilson, A. N. Wilson, AN Wilson
Biography: Andrew Norman Wilson is an English writer and newspaper columnist known for his critical biographies, novels and works of popular history. He is an occasional columnist for the Daily Mail and a former columnist for the London Evening Standard.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Stone, Staffordshire, England, UK
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Birthday: October 27, 1950
Age: 74 years old
Gender: Male
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Return to Eliotland
Overview: AN Wilson explores the life and work of TS Eliot. From The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock to The Waste Land and from Ash Wednesday to Four Quartets, Wilson traces Eliot's life story as it informs his greatest works.He explores how Eliot's realisation that he and Vivien were fundamentally incompatible influenced The Waste Land and examines how Eliot's subsequent conversion to Anglicanism coloured his later works. Wilson concludes his journey by visiting some of the key locations around which the poet structured his final masterpiece, Four Quartets. Eliot's poetry is widely regarded as complex and difficult; it takes on weighty ideas of time, memory, faith and belief, themes which Wilson argues have as much relevance today as during the poet's lifetime. And whilst hailing his genius, Wilson does not shy away from confronting the discomforting and dark side of his work - the poems now widely regarded as anti-Semitic.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-01-01
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Beatrix Potter with Patricia Routledge
Overview: Patricia Routledge, as patron of the Beatrix Potter Society, presents a documentary on the author's life and work.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-01-26
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The Genius of Josiah Wedgwood
Overview: Historian and author AN Wilson explores the life of Josiah Wedgwood. Wilson reveals the achievements of the self-made, self-educated creative giant famous for his pottery.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-04-19
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Narnia's Lost Poet: The Secret Lives and Loves of C.S. Lewis
Overview: C.S. Lewis's biographer A.N. Wilson goes in search of the man behind Narnia, a highly secretive man whose personal life was marked by the loss of the three women he most loved.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-11-27
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Tolstoy: The Man Behind Anna
Overview: An examination of the life of great Russian author Leo Tolstoy, who penned the 1877 novel Anna Karenina.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-04-24
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Prince Albert: A Victorian Hero Revealed
Overview: Professor Saul David examines Prince Albert's role in shaping British culture, governmental policy and international relations in Victorian Britain.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-08-24
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Queen Victoria's Letters: A Monarch Unveiled
Overview: This is the story of Queen Victoria as never heard before; a psychological insight of the woman told through her own words, her experiences recounted solely through her personal diaries and letters.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-11-13
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Miss Pym's Day Out
Overview: In 1977, after a fourteen year dry spell, the novelist Barbara Pym was nominated for a Booker Award for her novel, Quartet in Autumn. This drama documentary biopic sees Patricia Routledge as Pym and follows the day of the prize presentation, as she observes people and reminisces about life and love.
Genres: Drama Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-02-19
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Prince Consorts: In the Shadow of the Crown
Overview: No profession, no say, no freedom of expression. Life as a prince consort is not exactly pleasure taxing. No constitution ascribes any function to the husband of a queen. Nowhere does it say what he must or must not do. A life in the shadow of the crown. Can that go well?
Genres: Documentary History TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2021-04-10
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Return to Betjemanland
Overview: AN Wilson travels back to a landscape of beautiful houses and churches, beaches and seaside piers, where he reveals the life and work of poet and broadcaster Sir John Betjeman.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-09-01
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