Samuel Johnson: The Dictionary Man
TV Special
Drama-documentary on the 18th-century writer, following his creation of the first English dictionary, a project that took nine years to complete. The programme also examines his personal life, revealing how the obsessive-compulsive academic worked in a household comprising an opium-addicted wife, six copyists, a drunken doctor, a blind poetess, a servant and a cat. Part of the Century that Made Us season
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Credits
- Richard Alwyn Scriptwriter, Director, Writer
- Paul Kerr Producer
- Denman Rooke Executive-Producer
