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Question

do you know anything about this book.

Blue Remembered Hills
by Dennis Potter

Answer 1

Its a play, rather than a book.

First broadcast on 30 January 1979 by BBC1 in the series "Play for Today".

The script of Blue Remembered Hills (together with those of Joe's Ark and Cream in My Coffee) was published by Faber and Faber as "Waiting for the Boat" in 1984. The scripts were re-issued in 1996, under the title, "Blue Remembered Hills and Other Plays" ISBN 0 571 17906 1. These volumes also contain an introduction, written by Potter, entitled "Some sort of preface ..." Potter also provides a brief introduction to each of the three plays.

The story revolves around a summer's afternoon in a remote country setting - according to the script in the West Country, [the play was actually shot in Dorset] but probably meant to represent the Forest of Dean - in 1943. A group of seven seven year olds are playing in the forest. The play opens with Willie, eating an apple and pretending to pilot a war plane, when he encounters, falling from a tree as a parachutist, Peter. After a fight over Willie's apple - in which Peter attempts to show how powerful a bully he can be - the two eventually spot a squirrel and chase and corner it up a tree. They are joined by John and Raymond , and the group of lads attempt to force the squirrel down the tree and managed to trap and kill it.

Meanwhile, in a barn nearby Donald Duck is playing with Angela and Audrey. As they engage in their fantasy game of Mummies and Daddies (and later, on Audrey's insistence, Doctors and Nurses) we see how vulnerable a child Donald is as he suffers some vicious teasing from the two girls.

Answer 2

Sorry, no. But if you know about this book (name, author, etc.) what and why are you asking?

Answer 3

nope