The BBC will tell the story of a cultural revolution in British music and explore one of Europe’s most successful and wide ranging art movements in two major new television series planned for early next year.
The BBC is to launch a new “magical” interactive campaign using “augmented reality” technology in cinemas across the UK to promote Merlin, a new 13-part drama for BBC One.
The BBC and The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) have signed a new five-year contract which includes the exclusive rights to broadcast the major RHS flower shows on BBC Television until 2013.
Shot against the backdrop of the US presidential campaign, a new documentary series on BBC Two, The American Future: A History, sees Simon Schama travel through America to dig deep into the conflicts of its history to understand what is at stake right now.
Metallica, one of the biggest bands on the planet, are to play a unique gig for BBC Radio 1.
John Durbeyfield (Ian Pulseton-Davies), a “haggler” and a drunk, is weaving his way one afternoon towards the pub when he meets the village priest, Parson Tringham (Donald Sumpter).
Alec D’Urberville is the son of Simon Stoke and Mrs D’Urberville. He is an heir to a fortune and the nemesis and downfall of Tess.
Angel Clare is the son of a clergyman; Tess’s husband and true love.
Gemma Arterton brings to life Hardy’s beautiful, iconic heroine, Tess Durbeyfield, the eldest daughter of a poor rural working family; a fresh, pretty country girl with a good heart and a sensitive soul.
I read the novel for the first time when I was 16, rather grudgingly, as part of an exam curriculum, and I don’t think I can recall ever being so affected by a book.
