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REVIEW: South Riding (BBC One)
Mar. 12th, 2011 10:27 amSouth Riding (BBC ONE Spring 2001)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00y5gm3
I watched the adaptation of South Riding without having read the book, which was freeing as it's hard to judge an adaptation on its own merits without thinking of the shadow presence of its progenitor. You may well know intellectually that they had to cut your favourite bit for the flow or the tone or the plot, but...they cut your favourite bit. However, having seen all three episodes, two in iPlayer, one live, I don't feel like rushing out to get the book. At best, I might pick it up and read it for comparison if a copy came my way, by which I probably mean, I picked it up for 99p or less in a shop/stall and I hadn't found many other books that I wanted to read more. Um, that was specific.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00y5gm3
I watched the adaptation of South Riding without having read the book, which was freeing as it's hard to judge an adaptation on its own merits without thinking of the shadow presence of its progenitor. You may well know intellectually that they had to cut your favourite bit for the flow or the tone or the plot, but...they cut your favourite bit. However, having seen all three episodes, two in iPlayer, one live, I don't feel like rushing out to get the book. At best, I might pick it up and read it for comparison if a copy came my way, by which I probably mean, I picked it up for 99p or less in a shop/stall and I hadn't found many other books that I wanted to read more. Um, that was specific.
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