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Wonderland: From JM Barrie to JRR Tolkien

2022 · 1 season

A gentle, thoughtful documentary that explores how sad lives produced joyful children's classics, mixing literary history with quiet empathy.

Created by
Adrian Munsey
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Anna Wilson-Jones, Adrian Munsey, Sam Marks
Overview
An extraordinary variety of writers, who often suffered terrible adversity throughout their lives, created wonderful places full of happiness in which children lived far from the sorrows of adult life.

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Created by
Adrian Munsey
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Anna Wilson-Jones, Adrian Munsey, Sam Marks
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Tone
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • art
  • family
  • memory
  • isolation
  • class
Places
None
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • documentary
  • true story
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence none
  • Sex none
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ScaleValue0 to 10
Action0
Horror0
Humour2
Realism9
Romance0
Tension1
Darkness3
Complexity4
Emotional weight5

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Genres
documentary
Created by
Adrian Munsey
Written by
Adrian Munsey
Starring
Anna Wilson-Jones, Adrian Munsey, Sam Marks, Dinah Birch, Kimberley Reynolds, Brian Sibley, Peter Hunt, Kiera Vaclavik
Music
Adrian Munsey
Length
1 seasons, 4 episodes, 48 min each
Network
Sky Arts
Country
United Kingdom
Languages
English

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