Ten months ago Dame Rebecca West's novel, The Birds Fall Down, set in turn-of-the-century Paris, was proposed and accepted as a five-part serial which starts on BBC2 this Sunday.
Kaleidoscope have been following the complicated process through all its stages from the conception by producer Jonathan Powell, to the cool frenzy of the electrician's studio, and talks to the director, John Glenister, set and costume designers, the cameramen and the actors, George Colouris, Elizabeth Shepherd, and Felicity Dean, who in her first major role as the young heroine Laura, is the central figure of the production.
Presenter Sheridan Morley.