Roald Dahl's Esio Trot Roald Dahl's Esio Trot Roald Dahl's Esio Trot is a British comedy television film that was first broadcast as part of BBC One's 2015 Christmas programming. It is an adaptation of Roald Dahl's children's novel "Esio Trot" in which a retired bachelor falls in love with his neighbour, a widow, who keeps a tortoise as a companion after the death of her husband. It was broadcast on 1 January 2015. It was seen by 7.86 million viewers, making it the ninth-most watched programme on BBC1 and across all UK TV channels for the week ending 4 January 2015. It was
UK Film Festival The festival director is Murray Woodfield. UK Film Festival The UK Film Festival, founded in 2011, is an annual film festival in London held every November. The festival aims to discover new filmmakers but always mixes established filmmakers into their screening programmes. Previous festival screenings have included films that have gone on to win Oscars including ""Ida," "The Broken Circle Breakdown," "Stutterer"" and ""The Phone Call"". Bafta winners include ""Operator"". They also hosted the film festival world premiere of Roald Dahl's "Esio Trot" with Dustin Hoffmann, Judi Dench and James Corden. They present awards for shorts, features, documentaries, animations, student