Gothic Literature Collection
A selection of archive programmes about some of the most celebrated Gothic novels, their authors and legacy, are now available on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ iPlayer as part of our You can find the , or browse the individual programmes below.
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Dan Farson, great nephew of Bram Stoker, travels to Romania and Transylvania to investigate the legends that surround Dracula.
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Robert Symes investigates the background to Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein. Was her idea for creating human life based on fact? And who was the original Frankenstein?
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Ian Rankin investigates Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, first published in 1886, exploring the origins of the book and its relationship to Edinburgh.
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Joan Bakewell visits Haworth in Yorkshire, home of the Brontes, to see the setting in which the novelists worked.
