I am watching BALLET SHOES and it is HEAVENLY... do NOT miss it, you will cry and be sad forever

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ooooooh, only 20 mins in and am excited beyond belief. Harriet Walters is masterly, Emilia Fox a pleasant surprise as usuallly i find her a posho show-off.

HAPPY CHRISTMAS!

the Swiss Family Robinson lived in a cave too

oooh, think am gettign two mixed up! might order Children Who Lived In A Barn - loved it!

am posting this after 5 day hol and no mn... so you will all think WTF - it didi make sense at the start of the thread. i think

anyway - people who missed it, you can catch up on the bbc website and watch it there up to a week after it has been on telly. just about time if you're quick....

people cried ... why? it wasn't sad!

I read the Children who lived in a Barn. I was quite impressed by the haybox thing myself. It does sound a bit of a fire-risk though .

I'm bemused by this...I didn't find it especially sad. It was so-so. Not what I was hoping for.

They did skip a fair chunk of the book but it was a reasonable representation for the time they had. I think Emma Watson should have come in a bit later with a younger girl playing Pauline for the first part of the stage school training - it was a bit incongrous seeing her doing ballet lessons when she was about 8 years older than the other girls on screen. Pauline was much younger when she started ballet - Posy was about 6 so Pauline was probably about 10. Not 15 rising 16!!

Just finished re-reading the Gemma series, I still like them even if they were critically panned! Obviously there are some bits nicked straight out of Ballet Shoes, like Lydia's ballet audition, but I wish Streatfeild had written a "what happened next" about the Robinsons too ...

I missed this i was gutted does any one know if its being repeated please

Ooh, is that Gemma and Sisters? I loved those books.

edam - yes, the books were Gemma, Gemma and Sisters, Gemma Alone and Goodbye Gemma.

pau - I can put Ballet Shoes on a DVD for you if you like?