J.M. BARRIE & KENNETH GRAHAME
THE CREATION OF NEVERLAND & TOAD HALL (2 DVD)

RUNTIME: 125 MINS

CAT: AWA256
UPC: 881482325696
RRP: $19.95

A box set of documentaries about two of Britain's best loved children's writers, Kenneth Grahame and J. M. Barrie.

WHISPERS THROUGH THE WILLOWS
THE WORLD OF KENNETH GRAHAME
On the surface, Grahame's career was a spectacular success, rising in the City of London to become Secretary of the Bank of England, and making himself into a best-selling author in his spare time. Underneath this was to be found a diffident man of no great ambition, who was at his happiest frittering away his life in boats or travelling. The contrasts in his life were to lead him to an attempt to retire from all responsibility, bringing in its wake tragedy. 

PETER PAN & J.M. BARRIE
THE BOYS WHO WOULDN'T GROW UP
"The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story and writes another." noted J.M. Barrie. The story he most famously wrote was that of Peter Pan, the boy who never grew up, and without meaning to do so, wrote his own. Our program looks at the man and his works, as well as his involvement with the family that provided the immediate inspiration for the boy from Neverland, a family whose history was to prove as tragic as his own.