masterpiece

Samuel Johnson

English writer who made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer

No Picnic on Mount Kenya

Mountaineering classic recounting the 1943 attempt of three escaped Italian prisoners of war to reach the summit of Mount Kenya

Akenfield

Film made by Peter Hall in 1974, based loosely upon the book Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village by Ronald Blythe . Blythe himself has a cameo role as the vicar and all other parts are played by real-life villagers who improvised their own dialogue