Lark Rise to Candleford (TV series)

Infobox Television
show_name = Lark Rise to Candleford


caption = "Lark Rise to Candleford" intertitle
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genre = Drama
writer = Bill Gallagher (screenplay)
director =
starring = Julia Sawalha
Dawn French
Olivia Hallinan
Olivia Grant
Ben Miles
Claudie Blakley
Brendan Coyle
Matilda Ziegler
Victoria Hamilton
Linda Bassett
Karl Johnson
narrated = Sarah Lancashire
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country = United Kingdom
language = English
num_series = 1
num_episodes = 10
list_episodes = #Episodes
executive_producer = Bill Gallagher
Susan Hogg
co_exec =
producer = Grainne Marmion
editor =
cinematography = Balazs Bolygo
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runtime = 60 min.
network = BBC One
BBC HD
picture_format = 1080i (HDTV)
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first_aired = 13 January 2008
last_aired = present
status = Second series commissioned
website = http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/larkrise/
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imdb_id = 1077744
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"Lark Rise to Candleford" is a 2008 British television costume drama series, adapted by the BBC from Flora Thompson's trilogy of semi-autobiographical novels about the English countryside, published between 1939 and 1943. The first episode aired on 13 January 2008 on BBC One and BBC HD. Its cast includes actors from other late 2007 and early 2008 BBC costume dramas such as "Sense and Sensibility" (Claire Skinner, Linda Bassett) and "Cranford" (Julia Sawalha, Claudie Blakley).

A second series has been commissioned, with filming expected to commence in May 2008. [Olivia Hallinan, Mark Heap and Matilda Ziegler (19 February 2008). "Richard & Judy". Channel 4.]

Cast

(in alphabetical order)

* Linda Bassett - Queenie Turrell
* Claudie Blakley - Emma Timmins
* Camille Coduri - Patty
* Brendan Coyle - Robert Timmins
* John Dagleish - Alf Arless
* Phil Davis - Arthur Ashlow
* Dawn French - Caroline Arless
* Olivia Grant - Lady Adelaide Midwinter
* Olivia Hallinan - Laura Timmins
* Victoria Hamilton - Ruby (Ruth) Pratt
* Mark Heap - Thomas Brown
* Oliver Jackson Cohen - Phillip
* Karl Johnson - Twister Turrell
* Sarah Lancashire - Adult Laura (Narrator)
* Stephen Marcus - Matthew Welby
* Ben Miles - Sir Timothy Midwinter
* Julia Sawalha - Dorcas Lane
* Claire Skinner - Mrs Macey
* Liz Smith - Zillah (Series 1)
* Peter Vaughan - Reverend Ellison
* Matilda Ziegler - Pearl (Prudence) Pratt

Episodes

eries 1 (2008)

Changes from source material

The Debtors Act of 1869 abolished imprisonment for debt and the series makes much of Mrs Arless's, played by Dawn French, imprisonment for debt. In the novels the events are played out in the 1880s and thereafter, imprisonment for debt would therefore be anachronistic.

References

External links

* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/larkrise/ "Lark Rise to Candleford"] at bbc.co.uk
*imdb title|id=1077744|title=Lark Rise to Candleford
* [http://www.talkingelephant.co.uk/titles/title.php?Title_Ref=22916&Genre_id=all&Artist_Ref=22438 Lark Rise Visited ] The Soundtrack from the TV show.