History through the eyes of children.

madeleine45

read and enjoyed most of the quoted books, do any of you remember Dennis Potters Blue Remembered Hills? Still love my books and enjoy reading them rather than having a kindle or whatever.

Yes. I have never read it but I should.

There was a television play entitled "Blue Remembered Hills"
it was written by Dennis Potter and grown up actors played children. Helen Mirren and Janine Duvitski played little girls and John Bird and Colin Welland were little boys. I can't remember who else was in it.
The famous quote is from a poem by A E Housman of course and appears in several books and films.

Indigo8

There was a television play entitled "Blue Remembered Hills"
it was written by Dennis Potter and grown up actors played children. Helen Mirren and Janine Duvitski played little girls and John Bird and Colin Welland were little boys. I can't remember who else was in it.
The famous quote is from a poem by A E Housman of course and appears in several books and films.

I'd like to see that again.
I wonder if it was filmed in the actual location in Gloucestershire?

Rosemary Sutcliffe wrote a book with the same title.

Allira

Indigo8

There was a television play entitled "Blue Remembered Hills"
it was written by Dennis Potter and grown up actors played children. Helen Mirren and Janine Duvitski played little girls and John Bird and Colin Welland were little boys. I can't remember who else was in it.
The famous quote is from a poem by A E Housman of course and appears in several books and films.

I'd like to see that again.
I wonder if it was filmed in the actual location in Gloucestershire?

Rosemary Sutcliffe wrote a book with the same title.

It was a Play for Today (as mentioned recently on another thread).

merlotgran

I loved Nigel Slater’s ‘Toast,’ his autobiography as seen through food! A boy growing up in ‘60’s suburbia. So much of our own social history is there.

It was also made into a TV drama.

I enjoyed the book, didn’t see the drama.I felt more sorry for the step Mum who did her best for Nigel and his Dad but got no thanks at all when he was growing up, than I did for Nigel tbh.
His Dad was a gruff character and he lost his Mum at an early age which was very sad for him of course.

Jeanette Wintersons semi autobiographical novel, 'Oranges are not the only fruit' and David Copperfield come to mind, as does the early chapters of Jane Eyre