Larkrise depicts the lives of a small rural community in Oxfordshire from a harvest day in the late 19th century up to calling the names of the village dead in the First World War.
Category: Christina Barnes
1988
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Quiet Weekend
Mildred and Arthur Royd, Marcia’s parents, own a country cottage intended for quiet week-ends. It does not, however, work out that way on some occasions.
1987
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The End of the Pier Show
Written By Joyce Eidmans and Carolyn Woodward Where and When 10th July 1987 @ The…
1986
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Olde Tyme Music Hall
Where and When 12th July 1985 @ The Allendale Centre, Wimborne December 1986 @ The…
1985
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Fish Out Of Water
Agatha rounds up the hotel guests in communal games and other healthy pursuits. Her unflagging spirit of togetherness invades the lives of all the characters with riotous results.
1985
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Dear Octopus
The life of an English family shown in terms of the chatter of youngsters, the careers and nursery memories of the middle-aged and the sense of the swift passing of the years.
1984
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A Murder Is Announced
An announcement in the local paper states the time and place of an imminent murder. When an unknown visitor to Miss Blacklock’s home dies Miss Marple turns up to solve the case.
1983
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There Goes The Bride
A beleaguered advertising executive struggles to plan his daughter’s wedding after a knock on the head leaves him confused and obsessed with a beautiful, but imaginary, young woman.
1983
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Ten Times Table
The leading lights of the village have decided to hold a pageant of local history. But there’s a left wing teacher on the committee who decides to turn it into a rally for proletarian revolution.