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Lark Rise To Candleford – Series 4 – A newcomer to Candleford
Starts Sunday 9 January 2011 8.00-9.00pm BBC ONE and BBC HD Lark Rise To Candleford, Bill Gallagher’s adaptation of Flora Thompson’s charming memoir of her Oxfordshire childhood, is the perfect winter warmer for the New Year on BBC One. The drama sees the welcome return of favourite characters including Julia Sawalha as post mistress Dorcas [...]
Interview with Olivia Hallinan
Love is in the air… As BBC One’s winter warmer, Lark Rise To Candleford, based on the novels by Flora Thompson and adapted by Bill Gallagher, continues, Olivia Hallinan, who plays Laura Timmins, tells Programme Information how her character has grown up and deserves to find true love. In the last series viewers saw Laura [...]
interview with Julia Sawalha
BBC One’s winter warmer, Lark Rise To Candleford, based on the novels by Flora Thompson and adapted by Bill Gallagher, returns this week and continues to chronicle the lives of the hamlet folk of Lark Rise and the wealthier inhabitants of neighbouring Candleford. At the end of the last series, James Dowland (played by Jason [...]
Jason Merrells plays James Dowland
James Dowland, the handsome and charming hotelier rides into Candleford fresh from recent success in London. Guaranteed to turn a few heads along the way, Dowland is a man of mystery that a few of the residents may well already recognise. Speaking about his character Jason comments: “Dowland is a self made man to a [...]
Julia Sawalha plays Dorcas Lane
Post Mistress Dorcas Lane decided to stay at the Post Office at the end of the first series. However the joy was short lived as she said goodbye to two very special people in her life; Zillah (Liz Smith), her ever faithful maid sadly passed away, whilst Sir Timothy (Ben Miles) left for London with [...]
Olivia Hallinan plays Laura Timmins
Reprising the role of Laura Timmins, a Lark Rise girl who moved to Candleford to work with her cousin, Dorcas Lane, Olivia Hallinan reflects how much Laura has changed since she first arrived at the Post Office as a naïve and innocent young girl: “Laura has definitely grown up. She’s grown in confidence and takes [...]
Cast and crew credits – Lark Rise To Candleford – second series
Julia Sawalha is Dorcas Lane Olivia Hallinan is Laura Timmins Jason Merrells is James Dowland Brendan Coyle is Robert Timmins Claudie Blakley is Emma Timmins John Dagleish is Alf Arless Mark Heap is Thomas Brown Linda Bassett is Queenie Turrill Karl Johnson is Twister Turrill Matilda Ziegler is Pearle Pratt Victoria Hamilton is Ruby Pratt [...]
Victoria Hamilton plays Ruby Pratt and Matilda Ziegler plays Pearl Pratt
The Pratt sisters run the women’s clothing store in Candleford. Neither is married and they spend most of their time running a critical eye over other people’s affairs. Pearl is the elder sister and takes the lead in ensuring that the highest standards are maintained in their shop and in the town as a [...]
Other characters
Candleford: Zillah Zillah is Dorcas’s servant. Zillah has known Dorcas since she was a child, and worked for her father, and her grandfather before her. Nobody could love Dorcas more than Zillah, and she also considers Matthew and Thomas as part of the family, not that this stops her grumbling about all three of them [...]
John Dagleish plays Alf Arless
Alf is Caroline Arless’s eldest son. He left school early to help provide for the family. Unlike his mother he is extremely honest and hard working. He is only a boy himself but is responsible for earning the majority of the family’s money by working in the fields. It pains him to see his mother [...]