6/3/2023 0 Comments A year in provence show![]() ![]() which achieved the near impossible – creating a John Thaw vehicle nobody liked". Unlike the book, the programme was not well received by critics and it was later placed at number ten on a Radio Times list of the worst television programmes ever made with John Naughton, describing it as a "smugathon. ![]() In 1993, the BBC produced a television series based on the book, starring Lindsay Duncan and John Thaw, with appearances from Alfred Molina and James Fleet. In 1991 a radio adaptation was broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Meals in Provençal restaurants and work on the Mayles' house, garden and vineyard are features of the book, whose chapters follow the months of the year. Peter Mayle and his wife move to Provence, and are soon met with unexpectedly fierce weather, underground truffle dealers and unruly workers, who work around their normalement schedule. Reviewers praised the book's honest style, wit and its refreshing humour. It was adapted into a television series starring John Thaw and Lindsay Duncan. A Year in Provence is a 1989 best-selling memoir by Peter Mayle about his first year in Provence, and the local events and customs. ![]()
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