Apostrophes

Between the Covers

November 2024 •English

Sara Cox hosts this new book club bringing the nation together through sharing the pleasure of reading. Each edition features a celebrity panel discussing their favourite book and two review sections.

斯文江南

November 2024 •Chinese

Ven Acá... con Eugenia León y Pavel Granados

November 2024 •Spanish

ConvénZeme

November 2024 •Spanish

Dobry tytuł

November 2024 •Polish

Local Perspective

November 2024 •Chinese

Follow Chen Danqing's eyes to gain insight into the subtle and vast world of Wanhua and enjoy the wonderful details of famous paintings. Chen Danqing's eyes are a precious artistic treasure of this era. This program, through his eyes, his words, his insight and aesthetics, tells the story of each minute part of a masterpiece of Chinese and Western painting, a wonderful detail that no one notices but will be enlightened and applauded after seeing it. The whole film was shot in Chen Danqing's studio and later supplemented with a lot of animation effects. Through topics and stories of interest to young people, the film is guided to re-examine the neglected corners of art creation and artists in various periods.

Una belleza nueva

November 2024 •Spanish

It's Lit!

November 2024 •English

A series of smart, funny video essays from PBS Digital Studios about their favorite books and why they love to read. Host Lindsay Ellis delves into topics like the evolution of YA, how science fiction mirrors our own anxieties, and why the book is sometimes just a _bit_ better than the movie.

Wishbone

November 2024 •English

Wishbone is a children's television show. The show's title character is a Jack Russell Terrier of the same name. Wishbone lives with his owner Joe Talbot in the fictional modern town of Oakdale, Texas. He daydreams about being the lead character of stories from classic literature He was known as "the little dog with a big imagination". Only the viewers and the characters in his daydreams can hear Wishbone speak. The characters from his daydreams see Wishbone as whatever famous character he is currently portraying and not as a dog.

Tincho Fierro

November 2024 •Spanish

Tincho is a teen vlogger who dreams of becoming Argentinian rock's next big star in this adaptation of "The Gaucho Martín Fierro" by José Hernández.

Boswell & Johnson's Scottish Road Trip

November 2024 •English

Following comedian Frank Skinner and Scottish crime writer Denise Mina as they team up to recreate James Boswell's and Dr Johnson's 18th century trip through Scotland to the Hebrides.

Senryu Girl

November 2024 •Japanese

At first glance Yukishiro Nanako seems like a normal high school girl, but she has a notable eccentricity: instead of speaking, she communicates only through written senryu poetry! This means she expresses herself only in 5-7-5 syllables. To most this might seem like an inconvenience, but for Nanako and her ex-delinquent bestie, Busujima Eiji, it adds to the experience of their high school lives as they run the Literature Club.

O Maidens in Your Savage Season

November 2024 •Japanese

The girls in a high school literature club do a little icebreaker to get to know each other: answering the question, "What's one thing you want to do before you die?" One of the girls blurts out, "Sex." Little do they know, the whirlwind unleashed by that word pushes each of these girls, with different backgrounds and personalities, onto their own clumsy, funny, painful, and emotional paths toward adulthood.

Softly from Paris

November 2024 •French

An anthology of erotic stories by famous writers like Guy de Maupassant, Nicolas Edme Restif de La Bretonne, Marquis de Sade, Giovanni Boccaccio, Marquis de Foudras, Daniel Defoe, Anton Tchekov, Jin Ping Mei, and Aristophanes.

Aoi Bungaku Series

November 2024 •Japanese

An animated adaptation of six classical Japanese literature pieces, including No Longer Human (Ningen Shikkaku) and Run, Melos (Hashire, Melos) by Osamu Dazai, Kokoro by Natsume Souseki, Hell Screen (Jigoku Hen) and The Spider's Thread (Kumo no Ito) by Ryunosuke Akutagawa and In the Forest, Under Cherries in Full Bloom (Sakura no Mori no Mankai no Shita) by Ango Sakaguchi.

Bungo Stray Dogs

November 2024 •Japanese

Atsushi Nakajima was kicked out of his orphanage, and now he has no place to go and no food. While he is standing by a river, on the brink of starvation, he rescues a man whimsically attempting suicide. That man is Osamu Dazai, and he and his partner Kunikida are members of a very special detective agency. They have supernatural powers and deal with cases that are too dangerous for the police or the military. They're tracking down a tiger that has appeared in the area recently, around the time Atsushi came to the area. The tiger seems to have a connection to Atsushi, and by the time the case is solved, it is clear that Atsushi's future will involve much more of Dazai and the rest of the detectives!

The Great Passage

November 2024 •Japanese

The publication of a new dictionary titled The Great Passage progresses. Mitsuya Majime, originally from publisher Genbu Shobo's sales department, has been recruited by Kouhei Araki, a veteran editor of the dictionary department who is looking to retire soon. The dictionary department is known internally as the "money-eating insect," but Mitsuya uses his perseverance and attachment to the words in order to become a great editor. Mitsuya, who has poor social skills, finds himself working with another man named Masashi Nishioka, who is able to express himself better.

Headless: A Sleepy Hollow Story

November 2024 •English

A modern Ichabod Crane teams up with the famed ghost of legend, The Headless Horseman, in order to find the Horseman’s lost head.

Čtenářský deník

November 2024 •Czech

A Life Worth Living

November 2024 •Portuguese

A dreamy seamstress and mother of three's life is turned upside down when she's wrongly diagnosed with a terminal disease along with an actually terminally ill wealthy book publisher.