A Town Like Alice States it was shown as part of the PBS series "Masterpiece Theatre". In 1997 a six-part radio version of "A Town Like Alice" was broadcast on BBC Radio 2 starring Jason Connery, Becky Hindley, Bernard Hepton and Virginia McKenna who had starred as the novel's heroine, Jean Paget, in the 1956 movie version. It was dramatised by Moya O'Shea, produced by Tracey Neale and David Blount and directed by David Blount. It won a Sony Award in 1998. A Town Like Alice A Town Like Alice (United States title: "The Legacy") is a romance novel by Nevil Shute, published in
Alice James I knew neither hope nor peace.” Anna Robeson Brown Burr wrote a biography, "Alice James, Her Brothers – Her Journal" (1934). Jean Strouse published what has become the standard life ("Alice James: a Biography") in 1980. Strouse steered something of a middle course between Alice-as-icon and Alice-as-victim. Ruth Yeazell published James' correspondence in "The Death and Letters of Alice James" (1981). Susan Sontag wrote a play about James, "Alice in Bed" (1993), which seems to waver between sympathy and impatience with its subject. More recently, Lynne Alexander wrote a sympathetic novel about Alice James, "The Sister" (2012). Alice James Alice