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McCain and Little Dorrit - ironies of history | 9 comments (9 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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A brilliant edge on the current chaos. Injecting the eye of the screenwriter into McShame's Rovian hell. Kudos.

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin

by Crazy Horse on Tue Oct 14th, 2008 at 06:42:14 PM EST

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Thanks SK. It's a pity that Andrew Davies wasn't given more opportunity to do his own dramas, rather than adapting classic novels - relevant though ones like Little Dorrit may be. As a university lecturer I loved his bitingly accurate series on higher education and its corruption by treating it like a for-profit business:

This sitcom underlined Davies's acerbic wit and sexually-charged, nuanced characterisation. These features sparkled throughout his inventive University satire A Very Peculiar Practice (BBC, 1986-88), a landmark series packed with memorable one-liners and characters in an all-too-plausible catalogue of Higher Education mismanagement.
http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/474415/

Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner - that I moved to Nice.

by Ted Welch (tedwelch-at-mac-dot-com) on Wed Oct 15th, 2008 at 06:55:49 AM EST
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