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The Story of an African Farm

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23/12/2008

BBC Two - The Story of an African Farm

Drama about three children who are brought up on a South African farm in the 1870s.

Based on a classic, controversial novel about three children brought up on an isolated South African farm in the 1870s by a strict religious aunt. Featuring Richard E Grant.

Drama about three children who are brought up on an isolated South African farm in the 1870s. Em, Lyndall, and Waldo slog their way through the biblical strictures laid down by Em's stepmother, the imperiously huffy Tant Sannie. Respite is found in the bosom of Waldo's father, a farm manager and holy fool. The repression intensifies with the mythic appearance of Bonaparte Blenkins, a con man with a gift for sweet talk and hellfire.

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