TV Show Details
Air Date:January 10th, 1999
Last Air Date:February 14th, 1999
Network:ITV1
Status:Ended
Genres:Comedy , Documentary
Original Language:English
Production Companies:Carlton Television
Bill Bryson Notes from a Small Island (1999)
TV ShowITV1
Documentary
StarringBill Bryson
Plot
Following his enormously successful book "Notes From a Small Island", American travel writer Bill Bryson sets off on a new tour of Britain. Starting at Dover, where he recalls his first disembarkation in 1973 to a land of rain, sweet tea and disagreeable land-ladies, his travels take him from Poole in the South to the Western Isles of Scotland. Along the way he encounters such colourful characters as the pipe smokers of Solihull, ballroom dancers in Blackpool and the caber tossers of Glenfinnan. Bryson brings all his perspective eye, dry wit and outbursts of comic exasperation to this affectionate survey of the British way of life.
