Stoned Children

[steepholm]

If you like Children of the Stones (1977), you'll probably enjoy Stones by Malcolm Bradbury and Christopher Bigsby (writing as "Malcolm Christopher"), which was broadcast the previous year, and is a kind of compendium of mid-'70s tropes around prehistoric stones, tourism as preserver-destroyer, and of course possessed children. I found it because I remembered reading a story in which there was a proposal to move Stonehenge to Hyde Park, and Dr Google led me thither in my search; but whether a) the story was a version of this TV play, or b) vice versa or c) I misremembered the medium in which I'd encountered it or d) two different writers had the same not-entirely-remarkable idea for a story, I don't know.

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There was so much of this kind of thing in the 1970s, I suppose it's no wonder I turned out as I did.

Comments

[cmcmck]

Being brought up close to a damn great Norman castle explains it in my case, I think! :o)

[steepholm]

A great big Norman abbey in my case, but same difference.

[strange_complex]

I watched this recently too, after it was shared in a Facebook group I'm in. I thought it was marvellous - great cast, obviously-appealing subject matter, and a very intelligent script.

[nixwilliams]

Ooh, great - Sunday arvo watching!

[steepholm]

I hope you enjoy it!

[calimac]

I remember watching things like this, but the suck fairy has been at them. Ten minutes of this was like ten minutes of watching glaciers advance.