Trawling the internet, researching libraries and databases, and occasionally from material sent to me, I discover things I did not know much about, or indeed at all! There can be more than one Discovery of the Day.
David Urbach commented on the Rosemary Sutcliff Facebook site in July about a story which relates to Rosemary’s Roman historical novel The Silver Branch.
An amateur treasure hunter finds huge hoard of Roman coins bearing the image and name of Carausius (d. 293), the naval captain who made himself emperor of Britain and features prominently in Sutcliff’s book, the second in her “Roman trilogy”!
Peter Callela recalls Rosemary Sutcliff’s “wonderful, classic The Eagle of the Ninth” and notes that now the new film The Eagle will be released in the USA on February 11, 2011. (It will be mid-March in the UK: please let me know anyone who knows timing in other countries). He writes that “ever since word got out that this adaption was being produced, I’ve been excited about seeing how Sutcliff’s literary material gets translated to the screen, and now that the official trailer has been released, it looks like there is reason to be optimistic.Read More »
Children’s author and historical novelist Rosemary Sutcliff chose ‘The Lark Ascending’ by Vaughan Williams as her seventh record on Desert Island Discs in 1983. (Played by The Boyd Kneale Orchestra with Frederick Grinker).
Rosemary Sutcliff’s sixth record choice on the mythical island of BBC Radio’s Desert Island Discs in 1983 was an excerpt from Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas: Polly Garter’s song. The wonderful opening lines of the whole piece – which have confounded the wordpress spell-checker:
To begin at the beginning: It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the hunched, courters’-and-rabbits’ wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboatbobbing sea.
Source: British Television/Tise Vahimagi- Oxford University Press, 1994. © British Film Institute.
ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF (1920-92) 