The Peculiar World of Bruce Robinson Channel 4 recently had a mini Bruce Robinson festival, where they screened Bruce's films and two documentaries, one called, 'The Peculiar World of Bruce Robinson', the other 'Withnail and Us'. Both documentaries were obviously filmed at the same time, as Richard E. Grant's interview footage was shot in the same arm chair and the same snippets of Withnail & I were shown, but 'The Peculiar World of Bruce Robinson' is great in that it shows Bruce at home writing and creating. It also looks at every film he's written and talks to the directors and procduers and tells of the problems he's had with his creative vision always being compromised and this is why he likes to direct the film himself, or more recently, turn to books. He cited 'The Peculiar World of Thomas Penman' as his favourite work to date because it's totally his creation. He's able to put his vision onto paper and that's what the audience sees.