Art of the Sea

Name: Art of the Sea
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2010-05-05
Cast: Owen Sheers

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Documentary

Creator:Owen Sheers

Writer and poet Owen Sheers explores British art and literature inspired by the high seas.

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Details

StatusEnded

First AiredMay 5, 2010

Last AiredMay 12, 2010

Episode Runtime1sa

Seasons1

Episodes2

TypeDocumentary

Original LanguageEnglish

Spoken LanguagesEnglish

Keywords

media arts culture

Networks

Last Episode

S1 E2 • 5/12/2010

In Words

Novelist Joseph Conrad described the sea as another planet. Majestic, dramatic and sometimes terrifying, the sea has held a real fascination for British writers. From Shakespeare to Coleridge, Robert Louis Stevenson to Patrick O'Brian, it has inspired some of our most gifted authors. Poet and novelist Owen Sheers sets off to discover whether there is anything that unites the great British sea stories. In the company of both seafarers and sea writers, he explores the transformative effect that the sea has had on the human mind.