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    One of the most popular drama series in TV history -- Bringing you the best in classic adaptations, mysteries filled with eclectic characters, and provocative contemporary works.

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  2. 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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    • 2010-04-18
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    The story is centred on four main characters: Hortense, Queenie, Gilbert, and Bernard. It focuses on the diaspora of Jamaican immigrants during and after World War II. Trying to escape economic hardship on their own "small island," they have moved to England, the Mother Country, for which the men have fought during the war. However, they find they ...

    Sam Wollaston of The Guardian praised the BBC for adapting a more modern novel set in a period other than the nineteenth century, observing: " BBC does big budget Sunday night dramatisation minus bonnets and breeches—yay!" He noted that although he did not "have anything against the old stuff" the classics were in danger of being "dramatised to dea...

    Small Island at BBC Online
    Author Q&A: Andrea Levy from Masterpiece at PBS.
    Small Island at IMDb
    • 6 December –, 13 December 2009
  3. Small Island - watch online: streaming, buy or rent . Currently you are able to watch "Small Island" streaming on Britbox Apple TV Channel .

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    • Gilbert; Michael; Bernard
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    • 2009
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  5. Love is a luxury. Newly arrived Jamaicans in postwar London hope for a new life - but secrets will expose and unite them. Award-winning drama with Naomie Harris and Ruth Wilson. Episode 1 (87 mins)

  6. Apr 18, 2010 · Episode #1.1: Directed by John Alexander. With Naomie Harris, Hugh Quarshie, Ruth Wilson, David Oyelowo. Hortense joins Gilbert, her new husband, in England, where he is lodging with Queenie Bligh.

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