Alphabet: The Story of Writing, 1 -- The Making of Letters

Shot on location in Italy and England

Narrator, Susannah York; producer and director, Jeremy Bennett

Calligrapher Donald Jackson presents an historical overview of the alphabet from the cave paintings of primitive man more than 35,000 years ago to the stylus and wax tablets of the Romans and the Egyptians' hieroglyphics

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