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The Flame Trees of Thika is a British television serial of seven 50-minute episodes made by Euston Films for Thames Television in 1981. It was adapted by John Hawkesworth from the 1959 book of the same title by Elspeth Huxley, and is set in and around the town of Thika in Kenya's Central Province.
The Flame Trees of Thika: With Hayley Mills, David Robb, Holly Aird, Mick Chege. Elspeth (Holly Aird) and her unconventional parents decide to settle down in Kenya and begin a coffee plantation.
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Based on the beloved memoir by Elspeth Huxley, this BAFTA-nominated drama stars Hayley Mills, David Robb, and Holly Aird as a British family who relocate to British East Africa in order to set up a coffee plantation.
Based on the beloved memoir by Elspeth Huxley, THE FLAME TREES OF THIKA brings to life the color and adventure of another place and time. In 1913, Robin and Tilly Grant (Hayley Mills) arrive in Kenya with the dream of transforming a barren plot of land into a thriving coffee plantation.
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- Elspeth Huxley
May 8, 2017 · Streaming now: https://acorn.tv/ Based on the beloved memoir by Elspeth Huxley, this BAFTA-nominated drama stars Hayley Mills (Pollyanna, Wild at Heart), David Robb (I, Claudius), and Holly...
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Feb 1, 2000 · In an open cart Elspeth Huxley set off with her parents to travel to Thika in Kenya. As pioneering settlers, they built a house of grass, ate off a damask cloth spread over packing cases, and discovered—the hard way—the world of the African.
- Elspeth Huxley
The Flame Trees of Thika. An acclaimed seven-part drama about a British family that settles in Kenya in 1913, hoping to transform the wilderness into a thriving coffee plantation. Adapted...
