![]() ![]() Crucially, though, it captures the poetry and the spirit of Lee, and a kind of village life that even towards the ends of the first world war was dying and now no longer exists, except maybe in Outer Mongolia. It doesn’t entirely follow Laurie Lee’s thematic approach, though it does yo-yo backwards and forwards in time. The uncles are lost (the grannies – Trill and Wallon – survive, happily … well, until they sadly die). Which Ben Vanstone, the tailor/mathematician/adapter, has done expertly. A certain amount of trimming and alteration is required. And what works in one doesn’t always work in the other. It’s about mathematics, though, and different media: a 300 page book doesn’t always fit neatly into 90 mins of TV. ![]() ![]() There’ll be moans and grouches of course, as there have been with the previous ones – they changed this and left out that, the murder, the uncles. They’ve been fabulous though, and Cider With Rosie (BBC1, Sunday), the last, is no exception. A nother Sunday, another adaptation of a classic of 20th century literature. ![]()
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