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My Family and Other Animals (1956) is an autobiographical book by British naturalist Gerald Durrell.It tells in an exaggerated and sometimes fictionalised way of the years that he lived as a child with his siblings and widowed mother on the Greek island of Corfu between 1935 and 1939.
My Family and Other Animals is a 1987 British TV mini-series produced by the BBC and directed by Peter Barber-Fleming. [1] [2] It is based on Gerald Durrell's autobiographical book by the same name, My Family and Other Animals, which tells about the time his family spent on the Greek Island of Corfu in 1935–1939. [2]
My Family and Other Animals was published in October 1956—the title had been suggested by Curtis Brown's son-in-law—and drew enthusiastic reviews describing it as "bewitching", "joyous", and "uproarious". [128] It immediately became a bestseller, going into a third printing before it had even been published. [128] [note 15]
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My Family and Other Animals, 10-episode TV series, BBC (1987) My Family and Other Animals, Radio drama, BBC Radio 4 (2001) The Fantastic Flying Journey, Animated TV series, directed by Catherine Robbins and John Coates, Two Sides TV / TV Loonland (2001) My Family And Other Animals, the film version of his autobiography as a child (2005)
My Family and Other Animals is a 2005 television film written by Simon Nye and directed by Sheree Folkson. [1] The film is based on the 1956 autobiographical book of the same title written by Gerald Durrell, in which he describes a series of anecdotes relating to his family's stay on Corfu from 1935–1939, when he was aged 10–14.
Other members of the family became notable in their own right. The TV series My Family and Other Animals (1987), the television film My Family and Other Animals (2005), the largely fictionalized TV series The Durrells (2016–2019), and the documentary What the Durrells Did Next were based on these writings.