Eunoia.

Our thanks to this morning’s broadcast of the BBC Today programme drawing our attention to a book published seven years ago by Christian Bok “Eunoia” (beautiful thinking). What a contrast to the antics of two overpaid BBC nobodies who had hit the headlines since their vulgar, verbal attack on Andrew Sachs. Eunoia is book published in five chapters with prose for each of the five vowels. In its own way it is a refreshing and fascinating read, we love this kind of pioneering literature, we love the idea behind it and its successful conclusion.

LARK RISE TO CANDLEFORD.

The current BBC production of Lark Rise to Candleford is a welcome addition to the BBC’s collection of drama. The first episode of ten was screened last night. This production is brilliant. It’s been a good few years since I’ve read Flora Thompson’s Lark Rise to Candleford, a novel first published in 1939; it chronicles life in a fictional Oxfordshire village and it’s neighbouring market town in Victorian England at the end of the 19th century. The cast selection is superb. Another recent good BBC production was an adaptation  of Jane Austin’s Sense & Sensibility published 1811. Good cast selection and filming. I hope that these productions will encourage TV viewers to go a find a copy of these novels and read them, they will find themselves enriched.