Be thankful for life. Love every minute. Eat, drink and be merry. Be sad when necessary, but move on and find life again. Have a big heart. Share. Love the sun and rain in equal measure. See life your own way. Find what it is that makes you tick, makes your heart race. These H. E. Bates characters are timeless in the way that they approach life, yet very much reminiscent of an age where smartphones and computers are a far off notion. Feelgood, warm, real, aspirational and instructive... yet funny, cheeky, 'real' and always capable of making one think very differently. An absolute classic, and by far the very best versions of bates' books ever filmed. David Jason is simply wonderful... as are Pam Ferris, Philip Franks, Catherine Zeta Jones and everyone else in it. Stand on your doorstep, look at the rain. Listen to it fall, and think of all that has gone before it, and is yet to come... Wonderful television. 10 stars!
Review of The Darling Buds of May
