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Sebastian Faulks on Fiction - coming on TV
Don't know if anyone has brought this up, but it was in Sunday's paper:
"Is it easier to watch television on fiction, rather than reading some? BBC2 and BBC4 are banking on that with a whole literary season, the highlight of which will be Sebastian Faulks's series exploring the core characters (romantic hero and so on)." (Looks like it starts in February.)
Looks like the sort of exploration of fiction writing which television has been fiercely lacking over the years.
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I enjoyed it, although I did wonder about his pink shirt- no matter which country he was in he was seemed to be wearing the same bl**dy shirt...;)
Perhaps it's all done with mirrors, Carol, and was filmed all in one take in studio 3b.
I did enjoy the programme and it reminded me of some of the great characters I'd discovered in books I'd read.
Jim Dixon in Lucky Jim, I read this in English Literature at college and had forgetten how good it was.
Because they are being forced to by massive local council budget cuts the Tories are imposing on them. The Tories wrongly thought they would come out of this clean because people would blame their councils. Maybe if the government hadn't let Vodaphone off with paying the £6 billion in taxes they owed none of this would need to happen.
So let's keep this thread to the subject Faulks on Fiction.
Do you think he has a wardrobe full of shirts that are all the same colour? ;)
Bit too much of Mr Darcy, too, for my liking (though, thank heaven, not the wet shirt...)
How do you do that, Carol? I missed it too.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00yskd8/Faulks_on_Fiction_The_Lover/
When there is a series like this the previous episodes can usually still be seen as long as the series hasn't finished.
So anyone who missed part 1 should be able to see that too.