[ebooktalk] Re: To Serve Them All My Days.
- From: Ian Macrae <ian.macrae1@xxxxxxx>
- To: ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 18:48:24 +0100
David Powlett Jones was played by John dotine and Algie was the marvellous
Frank Middlemas. There was a comparatively recent radio adaptation which gets
re-broadcast on 4 Extra quite regularly. I read the book towards the end of
last year using synth speech and thoroughly enjoyed it although it felt a bit
long.
On 30 Apr 2013, at 18:40, Trish Talbot wrote:
> Shell, I don't know if you could get hold of the TV dramatisation now. As I
> say, it was on in the early 1980's.
> Trish.
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> 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>
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> 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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