Saturday, 30 June 2018
1042 A Year In Provence
First viewed : Spring 1993
I only watched a small portion of this Sunday night drama ( in the loosest sense of the word ) series but I suspect that was the experience of many other viewers. It was based on a bestselling memoir by Peter Mayle a successful advertising exec who'd upped sticks to France. It was successfully adapted for radio but the TV version remains a notorious turkey.
John Thaw was Mayle and Lindsay Duncan, immediately attracting criticism for being too young and glamorous for the role, played his wife. Thaw played Mayle as a fat complacent old toad and the scenes of him enjoying the good life in the south of France went down like a bucket of cold sick in recession-hit Britain. It's hard to imagine what effect the writers thought a long scene of the pair overeating in a restaurant, while slapping themselves on the back for taking "the plunge" , was going to have. You just wanted both of them to take another plunge , preferably from a high cliff.
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