Cult of ProgressKenneth Clark's 1969 BBC series 'Civilisation' is perhaps the most celebrated documentary series ever made, except that it was entirely of its time: patrician to the exclusion of women and western to the exclusion of all other cultures. Spring 2018 sees an ambitious 10 part BBC re make, presented by Britain's foremost historians, embracing global civilisations and exploring different themes in the universal histories of art and culture.

at the Betsey Trotwood in London and elsewhere

including Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog and Under Milk Wood

When it looks like a fight might become Bill's last

This is a compact

a young idealist whose search for intellectual fulfillment leads her into a disastrous marriage to the pedantic scholar Casaubon

the sisters are thrown into the whirl of polite society

Others might even have managed to penetrate the iron gates

Part memoir

and mysteries

Jennette McCurdy details how she overcame harrowing struggles as a child TV star-including anorexia and bulimia

Set on a Scottish tidal island connected to the mainland for just a few hours each day

the tales are permeated by a dreamlike atmosphere