The Editor - February 15th, 2012
When the idea for Alys, Always came along (and it arrived suddenly and quite complete one spring afternoon, as I sat in a garden watching my husband playing football with the children) I recognised it straightaway. I knew it meant business. This could be interesting, I thought, as I hurried inside to get my little orange jotter. I wonder if I can make it work…
Tags: Harriet Lane
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The Editor - February 6th, 2012
Have you been tuning in to the BBC’s newest, and most successful, drama? Call the Midwife, 8pm on BBC1 on Sunday nights, has been lauded as ‘perfect Sunday night TV’ by the Guardian. 8 million viewers can’t be wrong. Based on the number 1 bestselling memoir of the same name by Jennifer Worth, it follows the fortunes of the young Jenny, a midwife in the East End in the 1950s. It’s got nuns on bikes, plucky pregnant women and stoic midwives welding glass enema tubes. And, perhaps most appropriately for Sunday nights, lashings of tea…
Tags: call the midwife, jennifer worth
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