Series

Bill Bryson Notes from a Small Island

1999 · 1 season · Documentary · Comedy

IMDb

7.0

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.

• Bill BrysonWriter

First aired

January 10, 1999

Last aired

February 14, 1999

Status

Ended

Original language

English

Episodes

6

Genres

Documentary, Comedy

• Season 16 episodes · 1999