News from Gillian Southgate

On 23 September on BBC4 at 8.30pm Cerys Matthews 
looked at the Celtic myth saga The Mabinogion, one of the great 
literary treasures of the medieval world, according to Matthews. They were 
part of the oral tradition till they were translated and put to a wider 
audience in Victorian times.  There have been four of these Secret Life of 
Books programmes, and I have seen three of them. Simon Russell Beale on 
Shakespeare, a Professor of English on Mrs. Dalloway, and an actor on Great 
Expectations. Quality has been variable but all are worth watching, and will 
probably be repeated if blog readers look out for them in TV schedules.