The Browning Version

11/6/2011

I remember, a long time ago, when Sunday afternoons stretched out interminably, watching the black and white version of Goodbye Mr Chips on TV and enjoying a good cry at the end. Mr Chips gets a mention in another weepy about a retiring schoolmaster, The Browning Version, which was broadcast this afternoon in a new production starring Michael York and produced by Martin Jarvis.

Nearly everything that Martin Jarvis does is good, but this was superb. It was such a welcome contrast to all those dreary plays which fill the ‘Afternoon Play’ slot on Radio 4. This new production of The Browning Version is the start of a Terence Rattigan season to celebrate the centenary of his birth. If the rest of of season is as good as this, we are in for a treat.

The video is taken from the film with Albert Finney in the lead part of Crocker-Harris and shows the scene in which he breaks down, after being given the unexpected leaving gift by his pupil Taplow.

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The idea of Slow Life is to take the principles of Slow Food, which are “good, clean and fair”, and extend them to life in general.

Here in the Lake District, the air is clean, the pace is slow and the atmosphere is calm. If we don’t grow food ourselves, we can buy it in friendly small shops, where you know the quality is going to be the best.

This blog is a celebration of the Slow Life, with forays into the world of design, music, the arts, gardens, and my particular weakness, Japan.