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The Adventures of Ben Gunn is a British television series which originally aired on the BBC in 1958. It was based on R.F. Delderfield's 1956 novel The Adventures of Ben Gunn, written as a prequel to Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island.
The Adventures of Ben Gunn is a 1956 adventure novel by the British writer R.F. Delderfield. It is a prequel to Robert Louis Stevenson 's Treasure Island. [1] In 1958 it was adapted into a BBC television series of the same title starring Peter Wyngarde and Rupert Davies. [2]
The Adventures of Ben Gunn: With John Moffatt, Peter Wyngarde, Rupert Davies, Meadows White.
- Adventure, Drama, Family
- 30
- 1958-06-01
- John Moffatt, Peter Wyngarde, Rupert Davies
6 x 30 minute episodes. This series for children used the biggest film location devised to date by BBC Television, for the scenes on board ship. The “pre-sequel” to Treasure Island followed Ben Gunn from boy to pirate and was narrated by Jim Hawkins (John H. Watson).
- Biography
- Early 20th Century Social History as A Subject of His Writing
- Other Works
- Select Bibliography
- Adaptations
Childhood in London and Surrey
Ronald Frederick Delderfield was born at 37 Waller Road, New Cross, London, in 1912 to Alice and William James Delderfield (c. 1873–1956). His father worked for a meat wholesaler in Smithfield Market, and was the first Liberal to be elected to Bermondsey Council. William supported women's suffrage and the Boer cause in the Boer War. He was a firm supporter of the temperance movement, and of David Lloyd George until the latter allied himself in government with the Conservative Party. From 1918...
Residence in East Devon
In 1923, Delderfield's father and a neighbour in Bermondsey bought the Exmouth Chronicle, a local newspaper in Exmouth, and William became the editor. In 1929, Delderfield joined the staff of the paper and later succeeded his father as editor. In For My Own Amusement, he describes his work—attending Magistrates' Courts and Council meetings, covering amateur dramatics and other events, visiting the bereaved to write local obituaries, even cycling after the fire engine to see if there was a sto...
Autobiography
In For My Own Amusement (1972), Delderfield discusses the inspiration for the storylines and tells in anecdotes the origin of several of his characters. He believed that authors draw inspiration from the scenes of their youth, pointing out that Charles Dickens' characters nearly always used the stagecoach, when he was writing in the age of the train. Delderfield calls his sources "character farms", the main ones being his time in Addiscombe, schooldays, and his time at the Exmouth Chronicle....
Several of Delderfield's historical novels and series involve young men who return from war and take up careers in peacetime that allow the author to delve deeply into social history from the Edwardian era to the early 1960s.
Delderfield also published non-fiction books on Napoleonic history, historical novels involving the Napoleonic Wars, and some isolated novels set in more contemporary periods. His prose style tends to be straightforward and readable, lacking in any influence from post-modernist fiction, and his social attitudes are fairly traditional, though his po...
Delderfield's works include: 1. 1945: Worm's Eye View (long-running stage comedy, filmed in 1951) 2. 1947: All Over the Town 3. 1947: The Fascinating History of Budleigh and District 4. 1949: Seven Men of Gascony 5. 1950: Farewell the Tranquil Mind 6. 1953: The Orchard Walls (stage play at London's St. Martin's Theatre, filmed as Now and Forever(19...
British TV has made five series based on Delderfield's books. Nigel Havers played Paul Craddock in BBC TV's A Horseman Riding By (1978), adapted from the eponymous novel. John Duttine played David Powlett-Jones in BBC TV's To Serve Them All My Days (1980), adapted by Andrew Davies from the eponymous novel and Archie Carver in London Weekend Televis...
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