What to watch on TV
Bar a few noteworthy exceptions, there’s little to keep you glued to the TV this winter
There’s a lovely photograph of English conservationist and author Gerald Durrell and his American wife, Lee, hovering around on the Internet. Taken in 1987, it shows Durrell, lion-faced, in a white suit with black tie, trying to dislodge something from between his teeth with his tongue. Lee, somewhat younger, looks on adoringly, while a sharp-faced barn owl sits on Durrell’s shoulder, between them. As a boy, Durrell lived in a house on Corfu with his mum, two brothers and a sister, his father having died in India when the children were young. His mother, Louisa, brought them to the Mediterranean island in search of a sunnier, cheaper life, and Durrell wrote about the trials and tribulations of that life in My Family and Other Animals. Described last year in The Guardian as "the Harry Potter of its day", the book has been turned by the BBC into a television series called The Durrells (BBC First, DStv channel 119). Charming, whimsical and full of peculiar English eccentricities, it is...
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