The Darling Buds of May (TV series) series ended, Ferris wished to film more episodes. Having performed it for radio in 1996, she theorised in 2008 that the reason the fifth book was never adapted for television was because the storyline featured Pop recovering from a heart attack, something the producers likely thought the audience would not want to see. In 2016, having filmed a cinema adaptation of another classic TV series, "Dad's Army", Zeta-Jones responded positively to suggestions that "The Darling Buds of May" might also be similarly remade, stating "I'd be playing Ma Larkin, but I'm up for it". Locally produced food and drink intentionally
When the Lion Feeds enough ivory to pay for a farm, as he and Katrina had talked about doing. Before publishing "The Lion Feeds", Smith was working as an accountant and had already written a novel, "The Gods First Make Mad", for which he had been unable to find a publisher. After his first marriage failed, he tried again with a different story: I wrote about my own father and my darling mother. I wove into the story chunks of early African history. I wrote about black people and white. I wrote about hunting and gold mining and carousing and women. I wrote about