あらすじ
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (works not included). Pages: 33. Chapters: A Beast With Two Backs, Blackeyes, Blackeyes (TV series), Blade on the Feather, Blue Remembered Hills, Brimstone and Treacle, Casanova (1971 TV serial), Christabel (1988 TV drama), Cold Lazarus, Cream in My Coffee, Double Dare (play), Dreamchild, Emergency - Ward 9, Follow the Yellow Brick Road, Gorky Park (film), Karaoke (TV series), Lipstick on Your Collar, Mesmer (film), Moonlight on the Highway, Pennies from Heaven (1981 film), Pennies from Heaven (TV series), Rain on the Roof, Secret Friends, Shaggy Dog (play), Son of Man (play), The Nigel Barton Plays, The Singing Detective, The Singing Detective (film), Track 29, Traitor (TV drama), Where Adam Stood. Excerpt: Where Adam Stood is a television play by Dennis Potter, first broadcast on BBC2 in 1976. It is a free adaptation of Edmund Gosse's autobiographical book Father and Son (1907). Philip Gosse, naturalist and Minister of the Plymouth Brethren, and his young son Edmund are in mourning for the recent death of Mrs Gosse; the household held together by religious piety and strict bible study. Despite the claustrophobic environment, Edmund experiences brief moments of joy when his father allows him to view the exotic flora and fauna he keeps in his aquarium as part of his studies. Edmund, however, is troubled by nightmares of a Christ-like figure on a beach beckoning towards him. Confiding in his father about these terrible dreams, he reveals that his recent prayers have been to ask God for a toy sailing boat he has seen for sale in the window of a village shop. Gosse forces Edmund to pray and manipulates him into saying that God will not grant him his wish on the grounds that it is distracting him from spiritual matters. One day the house receives a guest in the form of Mr Brackley: a naturalist visiting Mr Gosse on behalf of...