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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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- 2010-04-18
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Dec 13, 2009 · Episode 2 of 2. Andrea Levy's award-winning story of Jamaicans and Londoners involved in the Second World War. Hortense learns that England is not the golden land she hoped it would be. Show...
Small Island. Home. Episodes. Clips. 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...
Andrea Levy's award-winning story of Jamaicans and Londoners during World War II. 87 mins.
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 London and Jamaica.
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. Characters.
