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    Akenfield is a film made by Peter Hall in 1974, based loosely upon the book Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village by Ronald Blythe (1969). Blythe...
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  • 2023) was a British writer, essayist and editor, best known for his work Akenfield (1969), an account of agricultural life in Suffolk from the turn of the...
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    (1966), a short-lived, twice-weekly soap. He provided the voice-over for Akenfield, Peter Hall's 1974 film treatment of Ronald Blythe's book. Tuddenham became...
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    The Final Programme (1973) Lucky Lady (1975) (Uncredited) Art director Akenfield (1974) Alien (1979) Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979) Set decorator...
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  • actors, played off each other'". Hall's films for cinema and TV include Akenfield (1974), a fictionalisation based on Ronald Blythe's oral history and filmed...
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    including Belsize Park, Belsize Lane, Maresfield Gardens, Netherhall Gardens, Akenfield Road and Lyndhurst Road. It is classified as part of the B511 road. It...
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    used as one of the key locations in the 1974 film Akenfield, based loosely upon the book Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village by Ronald Blythe (1969)...
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    November and featured 60 films starting with the premiere of Peter Hall's Akenfield. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre was screened in a members-only screening...
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  • friends with the writer Ronald Blythe, who dedicated his best-selling book Akenfield to the artist, and who shared his love of the unmanaged forest where fallen...
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  • series. Neatly written, well acted, finely dressed and softly filmed like Akenfield." Mary Whitehouse and the National Viewers' and Listeners' Association...
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    redundancy in the 1970s. The church was used as a location in the 1974 film Akenfield. Hoo Hall is a 16th-century building with Grade II listed status. The...
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  • Thriller The Abdication Anthony Harvey Peter Finch, Liv Ullmann Historical Akenfield Peter Hall Stanley Baxter, Ronald Blythe, Ethel Branton Drama The Beast...
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    take my last leave both of verse and of prose. Peter Hall's 1974 film Akenfield (from the 1969 book by Ronald Blythe) contains a scene where the grandfather...
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  • 1989 The Duchess of Kent A do-it-yourself manual Lamp with solar batteries more 31 December 1989 Dirk Bogarde Akenfield by Ronald Blythe Distillery more...
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  • he teaches Creative Writing at Vancouver Island University. Return to Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village (2007) State by State (Delaware) (2008)...
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  • Telegraph (16 January 2023). "Ronald Blythe, much-loved author celebrated for Akenfield, his classic book about village life in Suffolk – obituary". The Telegraph...
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    29 September 2015. Mount, Harry. "Rural idol: Ronald Blythe, author of Akenfield, at 90", The Spectator, 13 October 2012. Retrieved 6 November 2012. Parker...
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    Ronald Blythe, writer, essayist and editor, best known for his work Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village, was born in the village. All Saints Church...
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  • Obituaries (15 January 2023). "Ronald Blythe, much-loved author celebrated for Akenfield, his classic book about village life in Suffolk – obituary". The Telegraph...
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  • attended Charsfield village school, later described in Ronald Blythe's book Akenfield, where she learned to sing folk songs. At the age of 10 she was sent to...
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  • million television viewers when it was featured prominently in the film Akenfield, directed by Peter Hall. The ensuing popularity of the work, and of the...
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  • We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea The Haunted Commode Egusi Soup Return to Akenfield The Lion & Unicorn Lincoln Road Getting Here Masnfield Park & Ride 2010s:...
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    is a Grade II listed building. The author Ronald Blythe wrote the book Akenfield while living in Debach in 1966-7 and mentions the village - "a tiny parish...
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  • that year included Visit to a Chief's Son, Between Wars, Royal Flash, Akenfield, Cats' Play, Lions for Breakfast, F for Fake, The Moon and the Sledgehammer...
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    soldier, Member of Parliament, (1593) and English colonist in America Akenfield, a 1974 film was partly shot on location in Letheringham. "Genuki: Letheringham...
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    Peter Hall 86 English Actress Work Is a Four-Letter Word The Homecoming Akenfield 21 Suzan Farmer 75 English Actress 633 Squadron Hammer films 25 Tony Booth...
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