(Hmm. Rereading that, I better make clear that that was a very high compliment to you kat, and not a put down! The curses of prose.) This may not be her taste, but I had a friend who was bedridden for months, and he found that the BBC Shakespeare videos were the best. It was a project (he had never gone through all the plays), there were 37 of them, and they required him to pay attention, but not as work. And they were just different to what was going on. And they are mostly great. He got hooked on the language, the energy. Halfway through he interrupted them to see the other series, John Barton's Playing Shakespeare, which is the best educational/theatre video ever. He later said that it was among the best 3 months of his life.
yours, Peter T.