... major. Thursday for three days: A welcome return of “Far From The Madding Crowd”, an underestimaaed screen version of the Thomas Hardy novel featuring Julie Christie as Bathsheba liverdene and Terence Stamp as Sergeant Troy. Worth a visit. “U” certificate ...

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... At the Cinema THIRSK ~ STUDIO 1 Today and Saturday: Thomas Hardy's “Far from the madding crowd” ig brought to vivid pictorial life with Julie Christie starring as the charming, wilful Bathsheba Everdene. Alan Bates makes a worthy Gabriel Oak and Terence ...

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... Wednesday's meeting of the Ripon and District Men’'s Forum. Members heard readings of works by Thomas Hardy, Charles Dickens, John Betjeman and Dylan Thomas. The message of Christmas was expressed in poetry and prose with humorous, nostalgic and sentimental ...

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... God calls.” There are eight bells in the ancient Middleham tower, the biggest weighing nearly a ton. I am reminded of Thomas Hardy's poem ‘“lnscriptions for a Peal of Eight Bells” (after a Restoration) and hope that the wverse now quoted has ljttle ...

... Wyler handled it all sympathetically and it won Oscars. FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD (BBC-1, 7.25): And pretty far from Thomas Hardy, too. The novelist would have torn out his hair at director John Schlesinger’s 1967 treatment of his classic. Jools Christie ...

... tourists with special guide maps — or for Mr. Herriot to include a map in the front of | each novel after the manner of l Thomas Hardy of Wessex fame. Looking around Thirsk today, we can see that much of its centre is too modern for a thirties town and even ...