Rapidly skimming the latest press release from the BBC, unveiling upcoming BBC One projects, not really expecting to find anything for *us* in it, I almost missed this listing…
– "To Sir With Love" – 1×90 – adapted by Hanif Kureishi, from the autobiographical novel by ER Braithwaite, made by Rainmark Films.
Yes indeed, it is what you think it is. BBC One has commissioned a 90-minute film based on Guyanese author E.R. Braithwaite’s 1959 novel, which was adapted for the screen in 1967 and starred Sidney Poitier, in a post-war London tale of social and racial strife in an inner-city school.
In the book, relieved of war duty, Guyanese engineer…
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