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- Season 0 The Culture Show: Edinburgh Festival 1
- Season 0 The Culture Show: Edinburgh Festival 2
- Season 0 The Culture Show: Edinburgh Festival 3
- Season 0 Michael Jackson Special
- Season 0 A History of the World: Culture Show Special
- Season 0 The RIBA's Best Buildings of 2011 Special
- Season 0 Steven Spielberg Special
- Season 0 Into Orbit: A Culture Show Special
- Season 0 Sigur Rós Special
- Season 0 Who on Earth Was Ford Madox Ford? A Culture Show Special
- Season 0 The Knight Errant: Lee Child - A Culture Show Special
- Season 0 Ice Age Art: A Culture Show Special
- Season 0 Your Paintings
- Season 0 The Magic Tricks of JJ Abrams
- Season 0 Not Like Any Other Love: The Smiths
- Season 0 Swinging into the Blitz
- Season 0 The Mormons Are Here!
The Culture Show - Season 0 Episode 10 Who on Earth Was Ford Madox Ford? A Culture Show Special
5.80 60 minutes Ford Madox Ford is one of the forgotten greats of British fiction. With Tom Stoppard's dramatisation of Ford's unusual First World War love story Parade's End showing on BBC Two, Alan Yentob reveals Ford to be one of the most likeable characters in literature - humorous, overweight and with a deeply complicated love life that lit the fire under his greatest novels. A radical and a modernist, Ford was friend and collaborator to the great experimenters, Conrad, Lawrence, Pound and Joyce, and he wrote over 80 books including the masterpiece The Good Soldier.
Yentob follows Ford through scandal, prison, exile and into the army, where he was injured by an explosion while serving in the Somme. He reveals how the shockwaves from this explosion reverberated through the rest of Ford's life, providing the inspiration for his visceral, unique and spectacular wartime epic Parade's End.
Contributors include fans John Simpson, the Booker winner Ben Okri and academic Hermione Lee, as well as eminent chef Rowley Leigh, cooking some of Ford's favourite food.
