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Lark Rise To Candleford Episode 12, Series 2

Sunday 15 March 7.00-8.00pm BBC ONE James Dowland is confined to his hospital bed when his son, Sidney, arrives in Candleford, as BBC One’s adaptation of Flora Thompson’s childhood memoirs concludes. Dorcas welcomes the child into the Post Office, encouraging Laura and Ruby to do everything they can to make him feel at home there. [...]

Lark Rise To Candleford – Christmas Special

Sunday 21 December 7.45-9.00pm BBC ONE The inhabitants of Lark Rise and Candleford go carol singing Lark Rise To Candleford returns for a second series with a feature-length Christmas special, followed by 11 new episodes of this popular and heart-warming adaptation of Flora Thomson’s charming memoir of her Oxfordshire childhood. Julia Sawalha, Olivia Hallinan, Dawn [...]

Lark Rise To Candleford – second series

Lark Rise To Candleford returns to BBC One in January 2009, a perfect Sunday night winter warmer which regularly attracted average viewing figures of 6.7 million in its first series. The new series of 12 episodes, which includes a Christmas special, promises more feel good drama in Bill Gallagher‘s adaption of Flora Thompson‘s charming memoir [...]

Writer and Executive Producer Bill Gallagher, writes…

“In her wonderful evocation of Victorian life, Flora Thompson writes that the people she grew up with “had never lost the secret of being happy on little”. In our age of frenetic appetite, that seemed to me to be something worth dramatising. “What struck me first about the books was how they are teeming with [...]