‘Great Expectations’ review
Like the Queen’s Speech and a miserable Christmas in Walford, high quality period dramas are fixed points on our TV screens at Christmas.
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Like the Queen’s Speech and a miserable Christmas in Walford, high quality period dramas are fixed points on our TV screens at Christmas.
Yesterday we went along to the British Library for the launch of Great Expectations, screenwriter Sarah Phelps’s (Oliver Twist, EastEnders) three-part take on Dickens’ classic novel about a boy with big dreams who learns that moral worth matters more than social status.
The X Files star Gillian Anderson and Poirot star David Suchet have been cast in a new adaptation of Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations, set to air this Christmas on BBC One.
Kind can mean a group, the ability to treat others well, and – if your German translation isn’t that hot – child. It’s that mixture of youthfulness, shared experience, and compassion (or lack thereof) that make up the main themes of Christopher And His Kind.