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- 1. Episode 1 Dec 6, 2009
- The lives of two couples intertwine in post-World War II Britain.
- 2. Episode 2 Dec 13, 2009
- The lives of two couples intertwine in post-World War II Britain.
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Small Island is a two-part 2009 BBC One television drama adapted from the 2004 novel of the same title by Andrea Levy. The programme stars Naomie Harris and Ruth Wilson as joint respective female protagonists Hortense Roberts and Queenie Bligh, two women who struggle to fulfil their personal ambitions and dreams amidst the chaos of World War II ...
- 6 December –, 13 December 2009
Small Island: With Naomie Harris, Hugh Quarshie, Ruth Wilson, David Oyelowo. A gentle Jamaican woman reunited with her husband in post-World War II London encounters both racism and homesickness as she adjusts to her new life.
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A novel about the lives of three women who face different challenges and choices in post-war England. Queenie, a Jamaican-born butcher's wife, Hortense, a Jamaican-born teacher, and Celia, a British-born teacher, each have their own stories of love, loss, and survival. The novel explores themes of racism, war, and culture through their experiences and perspectives.
Small Island is a novel written by British author Andrea Levy. The Novel, published in 2004, tells the story of post-war Caribbean migration through four narrators – Hortense and Gilbert, who migrate from Jamaica to London in 1948, and the English couple, Queenie and Bernard, in whose house in London Hortense and Gilbert find lodgings.
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- 2004
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Synopsis. Follow three intricately connected stories of Jamaicans and Londoners involved in World War Two. Hortense yearns for a new life away from rural Jamaica, Gilbert dreams of becoming a lawyer, and Queenie longs to escape her Lincolnshire roots.
Watch Small Island, an award-winning drama based on Andrea Levy's novel about Jamaicans and Londoners during World War II. Follow the love, secrets and challenges of Hortense, Gilbert and their friends in six episodes.
