Durrell gets wise, and sends him off.Īdded to the clan is warmhearted taxi driver Spiro (Omid Djalili), who first takes the family under his wing and remains their protector, and Dr. Gerald's tutors include the supercilious Peter (Tom Goodman-Hill), who seduces a willing Margot until Mrs. And, indeed, before long the house is filled with scorpions, magpies, rose beetles and slugs, not to mention a dog or two. It's far from an English-style "Little House on the Prairie," as the Durrell brood was eccentric, to put it mildly, and the narrative concerns how in the years just before World War II their widowed mother (Imelda Staunton, Oscar nominee for "Vera Drake") packs up the family from their suffocating middle-class existence in their "neat little house in Bournemouth" and moves them to a villa - actually, a succession of villas - on the Greek island of Corfu, where family members can give free rein to their natural informality.īudding writer Larry (Matthew Goode, recently in "Match Point"), gun-crazy Leslie (Russell Tovey) and teenage would-be seductress Margot (Tamzin Merchant) are the older siblings to 12-year-old Gerald (Eugene Simon), who is in seventh heaven with all the wildlife on the island. EST on PBS stations (check local listings). This is noted zoologist Gerald Durrell's best-selling 1956 memoir of his childhood, "My Family and Other Animals," co-produced by the BBC and WGBH Boston.
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