Next up in the BBC’s early 20th-century adaptation season is Cider With Rosie, the gorgeous coming-of-age story set in the West Country.
Based on Laurie Lee’s 1959 semi-autobiographical tale, the 90-minute dramatisation doesn’t follow Lee’s thematic chapters but the sprawling ideas of love, loss and the upheavals that faced communities as The Great War came to an end.
Cider With Rosie goes up against The X Factor AND Downton Abbey’s second episode so here’s a few reasons why you should set the box in the corner to BBC One tonight…
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