Secret Knowledge

A Very British Pornographer: The Jack Kahane Story (1x23)

Air date: Oct 31, 2016

Secret Knowledge - A Very British Pornographer: The Jack Kahane Story Actor and antiquarian book dealer Neil Pearson travels to Paris to discover one of the most important - and least likely - figures in 20th century literature - Jack Kahane. A short-sighted dandy from Manchester, Kahane combined a career selling low-grade smut with publishing some of the most significant works of avant-garde literature, including books by James Joyce, DH Lawrence, Anais Nin, Lawrence Durrell and Henry Miller.