Re: summer reading

From: Edward James (E.F.James@READING.AC.UK)
Date: Mon May 19 1997 - 02:31:53 PDT


On Sat, 17 May 1997, Britt-Inger Johansson wrote:

> >Now my memory is getting a little fuzzy, but has anybody else read this
> >series by Susan Cooper - I believe that at least one of the books was a
> >Newberry Medalist.
> >
>
> >Tasia

This will probably only be of interest to those in Britain, or with good
radio receivers, but the UK's Radio 4 is doing an adaptation of Susan
Cooper's "Over Sea, Under Stone", the first of the Dark is Rising
sequence. There have been two episodes so far, and (although I haven't
listened all the way through yet) it seems to be quite well done. One
hopes they will get on to do the _better_ ones in the sequence. The Radio
4 children's department have done a couple of Narnia adaptations recently,
too: _The Horse and His Boy_ was particularly good.

Edward James

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