A Town Like Alice (miniseries) A Town Like Alice (miniseries) A Town Like Alice is a five-hour 1981 Australian television adaptation of Nevil Shute's novel of the same name. Produced by the Seven Network, and directed by David Stevens, it was the second major adaptation of the book. In the United States it was shown on PBS under the Masterpiece Theatre banner, a rare non-British production to be so aired. It stars Helen Morse in the lead role of Jean Paget, with Bryan Brown as Joe Harman and Scottish actor Gordon Jackson as the aging lawyer and trustee Noel Strachan. The series won an International
Something Like a House of village elder, Old Tao. Unable to communicate much because of the language barrier, he spends some 35 years there, undergoing, amongst other things, the Cultural Revolution and bullying by the Red Guards, in the meantime bringing up a little girl who later becomes the victim of experimental biological warfare. Something Like a House Something Like a House is the debut novel by British writer Sid Smith, first published in 2001. The novel, set in China, was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Whitbread First Novel Award. When Smith wrote the novel he had never travelled to