I was six when this was broadcast Jan (Frazer Hines) later turned up as a Dr Who assistant and now is in Emmerdale
Altho some reviewers had said this is based on fact Ian Tressailler wrote it from an armchair post war in London. The reprint I bought had a sarcastic account by T's daughter about how it DIDN'T win a book award on publication but then did become an icon of the Fifties.
The production values were pretty low - the characters came in from the shadows to deliver their lines - with perhaps a stick of furniture with a silver sword on it
Altho it is a children's book about a journey, we all thought it was about what it would be like to be occupied after another war. In our village, there were a lot of Eastern Eupropean DPs and one jumped out of a bedroom window onto the lawn when we hared down the stairs and out of the front door and confronted us. Just like in a scene from The Silver Sword. The smuggling of eggs etc in the hollowed out telegraph pole and the stabbing of the child in the bale of hay in the back of the cart were all discussed by us earnestly as tho we would soon be doing it
unforgettable over the last fifty years.
Altho some reviewers had said this is based on fact Ian Tressailler wrote it from an armchair post war in London. The reprint I bought had a sarcastic account by T's daughter about how it DIDN'T win a book award on publication but then did become an icon of the Fifties.
The production values were pretty low - the characters came in from the shadows to deliver their lines - with perhaps a stick of furniture with a silver sword on it
Altho it is a children's book about a journey, we all thought it was about what it would be like to be occupied after another war. In our village, there were a lot of Eastern Eupropean DPs and one jumped out of a bedroom window onto the lawn when we hared down the stairs and out of the front door and confronted us. Just like in a scene from The Silver Sword. The smuggling of eggs etc in the hollowed out telegraph pole and the stabbing of the child in the bale of hay in the back of the cart were all discussed by us earnestly as tho we would soon be doing it
unforgettable over the last fifty years.