[ebooktalk] To Serve Them All My Days.
- From: "Shell" <shell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 18:27:21 +0100
I too loved To Serve Them All My Days and it is one I have thought of often
since reading it.
I didn't know it had been made into a tv program. I will look out for that as I
think it would make a good show.
Shell.
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From: "Trish Talbot" <trish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2013 3:35 PM
To: "Ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [ebooktalk] Televised books
> Occasionally, I like both the book and the televised (Or radio) version,
> even though the two are very different. A recent example of that is the
> "Call The Midwife" series, which I really liked, even though I know that
> it's a very tarted up, re-written adaptation of the books by Jennifer
> Worth - "Call The Midwife", "Farewell To The East End" and "Shadows Of The
> Workhouse", all three of which I have thoroughly enjoyed.
>
> Another one was "To Serve Them All My Days" by R. F. Delderfield, which was
> dramatised for TV many years ago (EArly 80's, I think.) I loved it so much
> that I read the book, which was very different, even to the point that one
> of the little girls, who was killed in the TV version, actually survived in
> the book, but I loved it just as much. Maybe it's better when you see the
> TV version first.
>
> When Winifred Holtby's "South Riding" was televised not so long ago, it
> annoyed me so much I stopped watching it. I suppose the good thing about it
> was that it made me re-read one of my favourite books.
>
> Trish.
>
>
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