The Railway Children (2000 film) The Railway Children (2000 film) The Railway Children is a 2000 drama television film based on the novel by E. Nesbit. It was broadcast for the first time in the United Kingdom on 23 April 2000. Shortly afterward, it was shown in the United States on the series "Masterpiece Theatre". Roberta (Bobbie), Peter and Phyllis live a comfortable and carefree upper middle-class life in London with their parents. But when their father (Michael Kitchen), a senior civil servant, is arrested on a charge of treason and found guilty, they are forced to move with their mother to "Three Chimneys", a
The Boy Who Saw True (book) With the boy we laugh at the adults around him for all their various embarrassments and hypocrisies. From their fumbling explanations about the meaning of scriptural words like "adultery" and "circumcision," to the carbuncle on the curate's "B-T-M" and on to the vicar's piles it's all wonderfully observed", and "holisticshop" applauded, "its naive candours, its drolleries, its unconscious humour, its oscillations between the ridiculous and the exalted, and its power to convince, for the very reason that the young diarist never set out with the intention of carrying conviction." The Boy Who Saw True (book) The Boy Who Saw True