![]() In the script by Sarah Williams it was an essential flavour. ![]() Often when an adaptation of a novel relies on a voiceover to impart information, it is an admission that the material is somehow unmanageable. And then in the final episode, they greeted their freedom as the opportunity to down tools and celebrate Christmas just as the cane harvest was due to come in, triggering more violent retribution. ![]() In the opening episode there were the Christmas riots of 1831 in which rebellious slaves were subjected to a horrific pogrom. In fact the season to be jolly came up twice. ![]() Broadcast over three consecutive nights, this fleet-footed adaptation of Andrea Levy’s novel set during the era of abolition in 19th-century Jamaica swiftly gathered momentum and proceeded at pace towards (praise be) a charming denouement. ![]()
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