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Queen Camilla appears in BBC2 programme about books that changed lives
BBC2’s The Book That Changed My Life featured Queen Camilla talking about books.
She told the programme she had read Lady Chatterley’s Lover secretly as a teenager, when it was banned.
The show also followed people who said books had changed their lives.
Peter, a lorry driver who could not read, now keeps a copy of Harry Potter close by.
Omar, who had turned to crime, discovered books in a young offenders’ institution.
His first book there was Jack Higgins’s The Eagle Has Landed, and the programme also offered glimpses of Camilla’s life and her visit to a primary school.
Queen Camilla appears in the BBC2 programme The Book That Changed My Life, which explores books that have affected people’s lives.
The programme includes Camilla discussing her reading and visiting a primary school.
She says reading was most of her education after she left school young.
Camilla recalls reading Lady Chatterley’s Lover under the covers as a teenager when it was banned.
The programme also features people who say books helped shape their lives, including a lorry driver who struggled to read and a former criminal who discovered books in a young offenders’ institution.
- Who
- Queen Camilla and people whose lives have been affected by books.
- What
- Camilla appears in The Book That Changed My Life, a programme about books and their effect on people.
- When
- The programme was broadcast on BBC2; the broadcast date is not stated.
- Where
- The programme includes a primary school visit and a tea with participants. The locations are not stated.
- Why
- The programme explores how books can change people’s lives.
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- Programme
- The Book That Changed My Life
- Broadcaster
- BBC2
- Camilla’s reading memory
- Read Lady Chatterley’s Lover under the covers as a teenager when it was banned
- Participant
- Peter, a lorry driver who struggled to read and now keeps a copy of Harry Potter with him
- Participant
- Omar discovered books in a young offenders’ institution, where he read The Eagle Has Landed
What people are saying
I left school quite young so reading has been most of my education
The minute something is forbidden you want to get hold of it
I embraced being a criminal
I prided myself at not setting the alarm off