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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 Episode 8, series 2

Sunday 15 February 8.00-9.00pm BBC ONE James (Jason Merrells) is in a spin when a woman from London arrives in Candleford The arrival in Candleford of a well-to-do woman from London throws James Dowland into something of a spin, as BBC One’s adaptation of Flora Thompson’s childhood memoirs continues. It seems that the life he [...]

Lark Rise To Candleford Episode 4 – Series 2

Sunday 18 January 7.00-8.00pm BBC ONE There are changes afoot for the residents of Lark Rise and Candleford tonight, as the popular adaptation of Flora Thomson’s memoir of her Oxfordshire childhood continues. When an accident happens on the path joining Lark Rise with Candleford, Dorcas Lane and James Dowland clash once again. The death of [...]

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 [...]