All Seasons

Season 1

  • S01E01 Italy

    • August 3, 2021
    • BBC Four

    Book and travel lover Richard E Grant journeys to southern Italy, visiting Naples, Pompeii, Positano and Matera in the footsteps of writers inspired by the country, its culture and history. Reading key passages from their books as he goes along, including works by Charles Dickens, Elena Ferrante, Elizabeth Gilbert, Norman Lewis, Robert Harris, Patricia Highsmith and Carlo Levi, Richard learns about both the lives and experiences of these great authors.

  • S01E02 France

    • August 10, 2021
    • BBC Four

    Book and travel lover Richard E Grant journeys to southern France visiting the Cévennes mountains, Marseille, Juan-les-Pins on the French Riviera and Grasse in the hills north of Cannes, in the footsteps of writers inspired by the country, its culture and history. Reading key passages from their books as he goes along, including works by Robert Louis Stevenson, Alexandre Dumas, F Scott Fitzgerald, Elizabeth David and Patrick Süskind, Richard not only learns about the lives of these great authors, but also experiences many of the places immortalised in the literary classics they created.

  • S01E03 Spain

    • August 17, 2021
    • BBC Four

    Richard E Grant travels to Andalucia in southern Spain, in the footsteps of great writers from past and present, whose work has been inspired by the country and culture.