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Simply arresting

Rupert Graves in Fortunes of War, 1987 (episode 7)

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BBC4 has repeated Fortunes of War (1987) with Emma Thompson, Kenneth Branagh, and Rupert Graves, as well as a host of acting talent. Rupert's acting is award-worthy, it's so thoughtful and physical. There is tragedy and humour and ordinariness in there, people caught up in the war, living their lives and almost in denial of what happens around them. The war visits them, affects them in personal, sometimes visceral ways, and yet seems to intrude on them, inconvenient and irritating rather than momentously life changing. There is a timeless, topical quality to this series, as an illustration of how war disrupts ordinary lives. Adapted from The Balkan Trilogy and The Levant Trilogy written by Olivia Manning (1908-1980), and described by writer Anthony Burgess (of 'A Clockwork Orange' fame) as 'the finest fictional record of the war produced by a british writer', it was largely based on the author's own experiences during the war.

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Young & beautiful

Young Rupert Graves being a little TOO adorable as Simon Boulderstone in Fortunes of War (1987, episode 7)

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Book Corner – July 2019 (4)

The Sum of Things – Olivia Manning

This is the final book of the so-called Levant Trilogy and was published posthumously in 1980 as Manning had rather inconveniently died. This probably explains the rather loose and rather unsatisfactory ending.

The book picks up the stories of Harriet and Guy Pringle and the young army officer, Simon Boulderstone, where they were left at the end of The Battle…

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Book Corner – July 2019 (2)

The Battle Lost and Won – Olivia Manning

Published in 1978, a year after The Danger Tree, this is the second book in Manning’s Levant Trilogy, set in Cairo during the Second World War. The stories of Harriet Pringle, a character loosely based on Manning herself, and Simon Boulderstone, a character to whom we were introduced for the first time in the first book, are picked up from where they were…

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