6/20/2023 0 Comments Singled out by virginia nicholson![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In November 2002 Viking published Among the Bohemians - Experiments in Living 1900-1939 to critical acclaim. It also taught me teamwork and persistence: ‘I don’t know. TV work taught me about other lives, and other worlds. Returning to the UK in 1979 I re-visited my northern childhood while working for Yorkshire Television as a researcher for children’s programmes, and in 1983 I joined the Documentary department of BBC Television. In 1978 I spent a year living in Italy (Venice), where I taught English and learnt Italian. After a gap year working in Paris I went on to study English Literature at King’s College Cambridge. My school was Lewes Priory School (comprehensive). When I was in my teens we moved to Sussex. ![]() My childhood in the 1960s was spent in the suburbs of Leeds, though every summer we decamped south to my grandparents’ home, Charleston. When I was six I wrote my own compilation of stories, pompously entitled ‘The Collected Works of Virginia Bell’. “I want to do something where I can read all day” I replied. When I was four I was devouring fairy tales faster than they could be supplied to me, and my mother asked me what I wanted to do when I grew up. ![]()
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