A nation of readers

I appear to be hooked on to the iPlayer! And I have literally just finished watching this brilliant documentary called 'How reading made us modern'. Fantastic stuff about the history of reading, how an entire nation fell in love with the written word. From the time that a licence was required to publish books, to the perceived threat to women's morality from reading, from the norm of reading aloud around the fire to the cafe culture of book clubs, this film has it all. If you are a book lover you just cannot afford to miss this one. It is on the iPlayer till 18 February 2009 so hurry!