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Follow the hardships and survival of plantation slave July and her odious mistress Caroline during the final days of slavery in 19th century Jamaica. Based on the novel by Andrea Levy.

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NPR reviews Andrea Levy’s new book, The Long Song. Andrea Levy’s Small Island, which won England’s 2004 Orange Prize for Fiction and Whitbread Book of the Year awards, traced the experiences of a Jamaican-born RAF volunteer and his teacher wife as they settled in 1948 London (the PBS series drawn from the novel aired in April). It was based in part upon the lives of Levy’s parents’ generation. Her new book, The Long Song, is a remarkable and profoundly imagined re-creation of plantation life in the waning days of slavery in 1830s Jamaica. Levy infuses her new novel with historica...

Tamara Lawrance stars as an indomitable house slave in Jamaica during the era of emancipation, with Hayley Atwell as her demanding, capricious mistress, in “The Long Song,” a miniseries in three parts beginning Sunday, Jan. 31, 2021, on WGCU PBS. Based on the award-winning novel by Andrea Levy, the miniseries airs through February 14, 2021, at 10 pm. The British press applauded the UK broadcast of “The Long Song,” with The Guardian calling it “a beautiful, moving, horrifying adaptation of Levy’s unsimple tale, that honors the source and its subject.” The Radio Times judged it �...

based on the bestselling novel by Andrea Levy on MASTERPIECE Sundays, January 31 – February 14, 2021 on PBS Tamara Lawrance (King Charles III) stars as an indomitable house slave in Jamaica during the era of emancipation, with Hayley Atwell (The Avengers) as her demanding, capricious mistress, in The Long Song. Based on the award-winning novel by Andrea Levy, the miniseries airs in three parts on MASTERPIECE, Sundays, January 31 – February 14, 2021 at 10 pm on PBS. Shown from left to right: July (TAMARA LAWRANCE), Nimrod (JORDAN BOLGER) (C) Heyday Television – Photographer: Carlos Rodr...