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Samuel Johnson: The Dictionary Man
Drama documentary telling the story of Samuel Johnson's creation of the first English dictionary. Nine years of work made an anonymous writer into a literary superstar.
Drama-documentary telling the story of Samuel Johnson's creation of the first English dictionary, in an attic room just off Fleet Street in Georgian London. The depressive writer-for-hire with Tourette's syndrome did for the English language what Newton had done for the stars, classifying words, fixing their meaning and bringing order to the chaos of language. It took him nine years, but in the process an anonymous writer became a literary superstar.
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Sat 19 Sep 2009
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