Durrell family biography interview

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In an interview in 2016, Lee McGeorge Durrell expressed concern that schoolchildren had never heard of her late husband’s pioneering conservation work, let alone read his classic My Family and Other Animals.

The interview came just as the book, and its Corfu-based sequels Birds, Beasts and Relatives and The Garden of the Gods, underwent a loose television adaptation, The Durrells. The hope was that this would stimulate interest in Gerald Durrell’s ongoing legacy at the Jersey Zoo, established in 1959 to act both as a reserve and to undertake breeding programmes for endangered species.

Durrell had been captivated by Nature from an early age and My Family and Other Animals, first published in 1956, is an expression of the joys of his childhood and his receptiveness to the adventures and wonderment to be found in the great outdoors.

The tale is based around a five-year stay on the island of Corfu in the late 1930s, which began when Durrell was 10. The Durrell herd, led by their widowed mother Louisa, have left the leaden skies of Bournemouth in search of sunshine, ‘like a flock of migrating swallows’.

Gerald (Gerry) is the youngest of four siblings, the others include the bookish Larry (Lawrence Durrell, the accomplished novelist, poet and tr

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Based on Gerald Durrell’s most famous book “My Family and Other Animals” where he narrates his idyllic, if oddball, childhood in the Greek island of Corfu, a drama series commissioned by ITV Channel to acclaimed screenwriter Simon Nye, entitled “The Durrells”, began airing on 3 April 2016. The series is mainly filmed on Corfu.

The series begins in 1935, when Louisa Durrell suddenly announces that she and her four children will move from Bournemouth to Corfu. Her husband has died some years earlier and the family is experiencing financial problems. A Homeric battle ensues as the family adapts to life on the island which, despite a lack of electricity, is cheap and an earthly paradise.

GreeceIn UK spoke with the series Executive Producer Sally Woodward Gentle:

“The Durrells” was met with great success as a British TV series. What do you think is the secret of its success?

Family – real family that everyone can relate to. Simon Nye comes from a large family and so draws on this experience when writing the scripts. This mixed with humor, nostalgia and the wonderful community and setting that is Corfu is hard to beat.

Why have you decided to film the series in the natural setting of Corfu instead of a studi