... Good Hardy dramatisation by Ann Purser The Woodlanders, BBC-1, February 22. THOMAS HARDY'S The Wood-landers is hardly the everyday story of country folk. It's country folk, certainly, but a kind of doom and darkness hovers over all, and even in the l ...

... one tried to do too much by John Lawrence Jude The Obscure, BBC-2, February 6. HARRY GREEN'S adaptation of the novel by Thomas Hardy has begun on a disappointing note. The main reason for the failure of the first episode to make much impact was that it ...

... The performance of her life by Geoffrey Wren THE characters of Thomas Hardy seem rooted inseparably in their native soil of Wessex like great gnarled oaks buffeted by the primeval elements of storm and passion. Julia Jones who wrote Back of Beyond in ...