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The African Queen by C.S. Forester
Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: Laura
Recommended for: BBC Radio Listeners
Read from January 01, 1968 to February 26, 2015
BBC description: Samantha Bond and Toby Jones star in a new dramatisation of C.S. Forester's classic World War 1 novel.
Set in 1915, Rose Sayer's work as a missionary comes to an abrupt end when the village she and her brother, Reverend Samuel Sayer, live in is invaded by the German army. Samuel dies of fever and Rose blames the ungodly Germans for having ground him down and frightened off the entire village.
Patriotically, but naively, Rose conceives of blowing up a German warship thus helping the war effort. She convinces cowardly Cockney Charlie Allnut to lend his rickety steam-powered boat, The African Queen, for the cause. He has offered to give Rose a lift in his boat to get away from the village and the Germans, so reluctantly goes along with her plan. If they manage to survive German attacks, rapids, malaria and mechanical mishaps will they be able to survive each other?
The novel, The African Queen by C.S. Forester, was of course the basis for the highly popular Hollywood movie of the same name. Paul Mendelson's dramatisation goes back to the novel re-instating Forester's original ending and giving Charlie his Cockney identity back!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0532byg
I read this so many, many years ago, and now it come to the radio. Why not jump aboard! Also remember a film, that again must have been eons past because it was on our black and white TV. Hear the youngsters gasp at the concept of black and white TVs LOL
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