Ali: — she does draw, and she does use the same pencil, as far as you can tell, but it’s not really emphasised as being an important object. The book was also adapted into a 1988 film, Paperhouse, which takes a few more liberties than the TV series, but I rather liked it. It’s here:

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Adam: And then an odd thing happens in the film, which is that Mark’s voice in the imaginary voice-over then morphs into the voice of Anna’s mother. You don’t see a lot of depictions of disabled kids where they are allowed to be crotchety, mean, unreasonable, brave, gutsy, actually-still-children, who have their own agency – and this story gives you two of them (the only other example I can think of is The Fault in Our Stars) Sleep is the portal here. When Marianne falls asleep in real life, she “awakes” in the dream; and – indeed – vice versa. And her descent into the dream state is depicted with the utmost poetry: “She didn’t just go to sleep – she dropped thousands of feet into sleep, with the rapidity and soundless perfect of a gannet’s dive.” Unlike Marianne, Mark is a permanent presence in the house: is this a reflection of his more serious illness and his steep descent into long-term unconsciousness? Does his loss of everyday wakefulness result in a sleepless dream existence? Again, the ambiguity is left hanging in the pale, oppressive half-light of the nightmare.Ren: Well, I think it’s immediately creepy from the first time she goes int the dream to the house and it’s this flat-looking house on this absolutely deserted plain because she hasn’t drawn anything else, and the wind whipping through the grass, and it definitely has a pretty eerie atmosphere from the beginning. The true nature of Mark’s presence in Marianne’s dream is left deliciously ambiguous. In their waking lives, they never meet, or even communicate – everything that Marianne knows about Mark and his deteriorating condition comes second-hand, from the anecdotes of Miss Chesterfield. So is the real-life Mark, subsumed by serious illness and increasingly unable to stay conscious, actually sharing a dream with Marianne, or is he merely her constructed interpretation of Miss Chesterfield’s stories? We never find out for certain.

MARIANNE DREAMS by Catherine Storr. Review by Penny Dolan. MARIANNE DREAMS by Catherine Storr. Review by Penny Dolan.

Clayhanger 1 9 7 6 (UK) 26 x 60 minute episodes This straightforward adaptation of Arnold Bennett's trilogy of novels about family… Ali: But then he’s actually… I don’t know. It definitely felt like from that point onwards, the film didn’t seem to be positioning the real father as being threatening? Which I was slightly surprised by. LoveReading4Kids exists because books change lives, and buying books through LoveReading4Kids means you get to change the lives of future generations, with 25% of the cover price donated to schools in need. Join our community to get personalised book suggestions, extracts straight to your inbox, 10% off RRPs, and to change children’s lives. Adam: Well, one thing Ali, you pointed out watching the film was that the laws of cause and effect don’t really apply in the way that the book has it. The book’s very much a sequential narrative.And yes, I love the ambiguity of the dream world. I always get a weird sense of “hygge” from those cosy apocalypse scenarios, when characters are thrown together in a relatively space refuge from the dystopian madness that’s raging elsewhere.

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In response to 'geffers' - the series was originally aired in the UK on the ITV network, produced by ATV (later to become Central TV) in 1972 - so nothing to do with the infamous BBC purge. Billington, Michael (20 December 2007). "Theatre review: Marianne Dreams / Almeida, London". The Guardian– via www.theguardian.com.

Armistice Day: A Collection of Remembrance - Spark Interest and Educate Children about Historical Moments Adam: Oh heaven knows. I have a real fondness for curious 1980s films that don’t easily fit into any obvious genre designation. Like, ‘80s films that you can’t tell if they’re marketed for children or adults. I may literally have looked up: ‘80s films, probably inappropriate for children’. What happens when a recurring dream becomes so lucid and involving that it feels more like reality than the everyday? Does the dream – unsettling as it is – become a more valid state of existence than the dreamer’s waking life? Adam: It reminded me of rewatching Big with my sister, the Tom Hanks film in which he’s young and in the body of a boy, and there’s a whole relationship scene where me and my sister were going ‘Oh ho ho, wouldn’t it be awful if something actually romantic happened’, and it does, and we were both quite horrified. Chris and Crumble 1 9 8 9 (UK) 10 x 10 minute episodes One of the last series to be broadcast under the See-Saw…