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Yes! @Film4 tonight: The Eagle film of The Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff, made with love & attention if mixed reviews on location partly in Scotland, by producer Duncan Kenworthy (he of Sesame Street, Notting Hill, Love Actually) and (Scottish) director Kevin MacDonald.
RIP Raymond Briggs, author and illustrator of The Snowman, Fungus the Bogeyman and many other wonderful books https://t.co/plDKcXgTAL
The wonderfully named and estimable Curious School of Puppetry re-starts post-Covid its acclaimed in-person full-time course @CuriousPuppetry https://t.co/FYCufQZTKL
@ATRightMovies When Director Kevin MacDonald was creating the film The Eagle (2011) based on Rosemary Sutcliff’s world-wide bestseller The Eagle of the Ninth, after test showings in USA Universal insisted on the name change for English versions lest audiences thought it was about golf! Aaagh
@ScribblingSandy @curlykath Rosemary Sutcliff’s #BloodFeud from 1976 is about a young English man sold to slavery to the Northmen (Vikings) in the 10th century who becomes involved in a blood feud between two families set off by an accidental killing.”Exciting reading” said @washingtonpost reviewer.
Whilst boasting @nottspolice about your new Dog Detective Amy, do not forget Detective Dog Nell ...
deployed many years ago to good effect by Julia Donaldson
Hey! @HelenOxenbury’s Desert Island Discs with @laurenlaverne on @BBCRadio4 now. Bound to be talk of bear hunts at some point ....@MichaelRosenYes
#DesertIslandDiscs #bearhunts https://t.co/H9sD8fWjSU
Granddaughter (of @aglawton52) enthralled by The Snail and the Whale BBC TV animated version. @Rowan_Lawton @domcoyote
Ah yes #BlackShipsBeforeTroy and #TheWanderingsOfOdysseus; illustrated by Alan Lee they were award-winning retellings
(Mind you on closer reading of your tweet I am intrigued by the notion of black sips (sic) before the battle ... ) https://t.co/t9QIBf3NRr