Knight said the story will be revisited and interpreted “in a new way”, adding: “We need luck and wisdom to do this justice. Finalist for the 2010 Man Booker PrizeThe New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the YearIn her follow-up to Small Island, winner of the Whitbread Book.

Starting with a three-part take on A Christmas Carol in December 2019, the Dickens anthology will be produced by Ridley Scott’s Scott Free London and Hollywood star Tom Hardy’s Hardy Son & Baker. And this is a book to be read for its voice, for its song. For a novel about slavery, The Long Song is wonderfully funny, largely due to July’s antic voice. Wenger also announced a new “boxset” series of Charles Dickens adaptations to be adapted by Steven Knight, the man behind Peaky Blinders and Taboo. The Long Song is an inspiring, optimistic and beautifully written tale of one spirited womans emancipation. ‘The Long Song’ Disrupts PBS Masterpiece’s Typical Slate By Putting Black Characters First: TV Review Production: Executive producers: Andrea Levy. “This untold story from Britain’s complex past in the Caribbean will be a period drama like no other,” she added. The Long Song is adapted from Andrea Levy’s gorgeous novel of the same name and the most readily apparent aspect of Sarah Williams’ reworking is how well she has captured the tone of the. “I am particularly happy to have my novel, The Long Song, adapted by Heyday and the BBC. Levy said it would be a period drama “like no other”. Written for the screen by Sarah Williams – who also turned Levy’s Small Island into a BBC drama in 2009 – the adaptation was announced by the BBC’s controller of drama, Piers Wenger, on Tuesday. In Small Island, Andrea Levy told the story of Jamaicans in London just after World War II in the The Long Song, she goes further back, to the nineteenth century.

Set on a sugarcane plantation in 19th century Jamaica during the dying days of slavery, the novel spans the life of July, the child of a Scottish overseer and one of the slaves on the plantation. Britain’s rarely acknowledged part of colonial history in the Caribbean is to come under scrutiny as Andrea Levy’s award-winning novel The Long Song is to be turned into a three-part BBC drama.

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