Production
H. E. Bates wrote five books involving the Larkin family, the titles of the first four of which were used as episode titles for the TV series:
- The Darling Buds of May (1958)
- A Breath of French Air (1959)
- When the Green Woods Laugh (1960)
- Oh! To Be in England (1963)
- A Little of What You Fancy (1970)
The first novel in the series was originally adapted to the screen in 1959 as The Mating Game, starring Debbie Reynolds and Tony Randall as Mariette and Charley.
The Yorkshire TV series was filmed at Pluckley, Kent and nearby locations. Scenes in the former Wennington School, Yorkshire, were also in the programme. The farm used in the series is open to the public once a year for the Darling Buds Classic Car Show. No filming was done inside the farmhouse, the interiors having been shot in a studio. "The darling buds of May" is from Shakespeare's sonnet 18: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May | And summer's lease hath all too short a date.
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Famous quotes containing the word production:
“I really know nothing more criminal, more mean, and more ridiculous than lying. It is the production either of malice, cowardice, or vanity; and generally misses of its aim in every one of these views; for lies are always detected, sooner or later.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)
“It is part of the educator’s responsibility to see equally to two things: First, that the problem grows out of the conditions of the experience being had in the present, and that it is within the range of the capacity of students; and, secondly, that it is such that it arouses in the learner an active quest for information and for production of new ideas. The new facts and new ideas thus obtained become the ground for further experiences in which new problems are presented.”
—John Dewey (1859–1952)