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...hymn (All Things Bright and Beautiful, All Creatures Great and Small, AH Things Wise and Wonderful), the Scots-born veterinarian has painted a bucolic picture of his life ministering to four-legged friends in Yorkshire. Herriot, 61, who started writing at 50, now is consulting on scripts for the BBC, which has just begun to air a series based on his work. With it all, Herriot, a pseudonym for James Alfred Wight, still makes barnyard calls six days a week and performs surgery in the middle of the night. "I complain about my work but if I didn...
Learning that the local Public Broadcasting Service station would begin airing old re-runs of the group's BBC television series came as very welcome news in those days, and the prospect of being disappointed or even failing to be amused never crossed my mind. Yet disappointment and the nervous giggle did mark my response to that first Monty Python re-run, and the process of a previously inconceivable disenchantment first set in right then and there. What had sounded on the stereo like an irrepressible source of path-breaking humor came off on the screen as just so many...
...introduced her to the public, and over the years she has been portrayed by some of the loveliest women in the world. The great Garbo played her twice, and Vivien Leigh added her exquisite beauty to the part 13 years later. In this ten-part series from the BBC, premiering on PBS Sunday, Feb. 5, Anna is again well served. Nicola Pagett, who played the Bellamys' willful daughter Elizabeth in Upstairs, Downstairs, may be closest of all to the character Tolstoy imagined 100 years...
Anna Karenina is a story of contrasts, happiness against unhappiness, warmth against cold. It has been told well before, but, except in the book itself, of course, it has never been presented with such building strength and certain inevitability as in this production from the BBC...
Much of the collection has never been shown publicly. Royal Heritage, which starts this week on PBS, was prepared by the BBC as its contribution to Queen Elizabeth's Silver Jubilee last year. The Queen and several members of her family were persuaded to appear on camera and narrate generous portions of the series, with Sir Huw Wheldon, the former director of BBC television, doing the rest. Michael Gill, who produced such outstanding series as Civilisation and America, was in overall charge of the project...