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The first of the books, Rites of Passage, was awarded the Booker Prize in 1980. The trilogy as a whole was adapted by the late Leigh Jackson and Tony Basgallop for a 2005 BBC drama mini-series of the same name, directed by David Attwood and starring Benedict Cumberbatch. It aired in the United States in PBS' 2006 season of Masterpiece Theatre.
21 November 1974. (1974-11-21) The Pallisers is a 1974 BBC television adaptation of Anthony Trollope 's Palliser novels. Set in Victorian era England with a backdrop of parliamentary life, Simon Raven 's dramatisation covers six novels and follows the events and characters over two decades. [1]
Battle of Bull Run. Peninsular Campaign. Signature. John Singleton Mosby (December 6, 1833 – May 30, 1916), also known by his nickname " Gray Ghost ", was an American military officer who was a Confederate army cavalry battalion commander in the American Civil War.
Rumpole of the Bailey, Gangsters, Headmaster, Play for Tomorrow. Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted.
George Smith Patton Jr. (November 11, 1885 – December 21, 1945) was a general in the United States Army who commanded the Seventh Army in the Mediterranean Theater of World War II, and the Third Army in France and Germany after the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944. Born in 1885, Patton attended the Virginia Military Institute and the ...
28 August 2000. (2000-08-28) –. 6 March 2005. (2005-03-06) Down to Earth was a BBC One television drama series first broadcast in 2000 about a couple who start a new life on a Devon farm. The early episodes of the series were based on a series of books written by Faith Addis about their real-life move from London to Devon.
16 February 1994. (1994-02-16) Middlemarch is a 1994 television adaptation of the 1871 novel of the same name by George Eliot. Produced by the BBC on BBC2 in six episodes (seven episodes in the worldwide TV series), it is the second such adaptation for television of the novel. It was directed by Anthony Page from a screenplay by Andrew Davies ...
27 August 2007. (2007-08-27) Hercule Poirot is a series of full cast BBC Radio drama adaptations of Agatha Christie 's Hercule Poirot novels and short stories adapted by Michael Bakewell, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 between 1985 and 2007. With the exception of the first two adaptations, the series stars John Moffatt as Poirot.