Andrew Davies Preps For The End Of One Series And The Beginning Of Another

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🗓️ 6 May 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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*Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Four of *Les Miserables.

Screenwriter Andrew Davies has been a true master of modern television adaptations, bringing such iconic works as Middlemarch and *Little Dorit *to the MASTERPIECE screen for decades. Now, as he looks ahead to the end of his critically-acclaimed recent adaptation of Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables, Davies also previews his charming new adaptation of Jane Austen’s unfinished final novel, Sanditon, set to appear on MASTERPIECE in 2020.

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0:40.0	This week, on Le Miserables,
0:42.0	10 more years have passed,
0:43.6	and Valjean and a now-teenaged Cosette
0:45.9	are living in a Parisian convent,
0:47.9	while Javert, now in charge of the Capitol City's police force,
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0:58.0	She was one of my workers and I dismissed her. What for? For nothing for concealing the truth.
1:06.7	Here to discuss the narrative time jump and simmering political and personal tensions in
1:11.0	Lémisirral is writer Andrew Davis. Davis has been one of the United
1:15.3	Kingdom's most prolific screenwriters, bringing his sumptuous adaptations of titles as varied
1:20.9	as middle march and little Dorit to masterpiece for decades.
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