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5 unusual facts about Lark Rise to Candleford


Lark Rise to Candleford

The joint directors of the productions were Bill Bryden and Sebastian Graham-Jones and Flora Thompson (“Laura” in the plays) was played by Valerie Whittington.

She wrote a sequel Heatherley, (set in Grayshott, Hampshire) describing her life working in the Post Office at the turn of the century, but the period lacked the changing social significance described in her earlier works and she did not seek to have it published.

The television scriptwriter and playwright Keith Dewhurst adapted Thompson's trilogy into two plays, Lark Rise and Candleford, which were performed in the Cottesloe auditorium of London's National Theatre in 1978–9.

Moira Armstrong

Her credits include episodes of Armchair Thriller (based on the novel Quiet as a Nun), Lark Rise to Candleford, Where the Heart Is, The Bill, Midsomer Murders, Something in Disguise, The Wednesday Play, and Adam Adamant Lives!, Freud (1984) as well as the television film The Countess Alice (1992).

Winton, Dorset

It was one of the first public libraries in the country to allow open access to the shelves; and it was here that Flora Thompson read the literature on which she based her literary career culminating in her autobiographical trilogy Lark Rise to Candleford.


Fringford

Fringford in the 19th century is associated with Flora Thompson's Lark Rise to Candleford trilogy, in which Fringford is the prototype for Candleford Green.

Linda Bassett

Other roles include Mrs. Jennings in the three-part BBC adaptation Sense and Sensibility, Queenie Turrill in Lark Rise to Candleford, Doll in the film Cass.

London Screenwriters' Festival

He is responsible for critically acclaimed shows such as The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency and Lark Rise to Candleford.


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