One of the songs on my Dolly Parton CD, and yes I do have
one of those, is Love’s like Butterfly. And what is screening on BBC 2 at the
moment?
Give up?....Of course you do.
Well the answer is the BBC series called Butterflies that
uses the Dolly Parton song as its theme. Wendy Craig is the female star, Ria. .
The situation was the day-to-day life of the Parkinson
family in a bittersweet style. There were both traditional comedy sources
(Ria's cooking, family squabbles) and more unusual sources such as Ria's
unconsummated relationship with the outwardly-successful
Leonard. Ria was still in love with her husband, Ben, and had raised two
potentially fine sons, yet found herself dissatisfied and in need of something
more. Throughout the series Ria searched for that "something more"
and found some solace in her unconventional friendship with Leonard. In a 2002
interview, Carla Lane explained, "I wanted to write a comedy about a woman
contemplating adultery."
Ria’s youngest son, Adam, is played by Nicholas Lyndhurst. and
their older son, Russell, by Andrew Hall.
Now Nicholas Lyndhurst, you must know who he is, tall blond
haired, starred in Only Fools and Horses and Goodnight sweetheart. Bit of a comedian.
I thought that Andrew Hall, the other son must have dropped
out of sight, but how wrong can you be. His latest acting role is in Coronations
Street, and he is a directory too.
Then there is Ria,s on screen hound Geoffrey Palmer. Now he’s
been in a few including one of my all-time favourites As Time Goes By, with
Judi Dench.
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