Bonham Carter to play Blyton in BBC4 biopic
Helena Bonham Carter is to play Enid Blyton in a new BBC4 biopic on the children’s author.
The one-off drama, called Enid Blyton, will also star Matthew Macfadyen as Blyton’s first husband and publisher, Hugh Pollock, and Denis Lawson, as her second husband. It is being made by Carnival Film and Television, the company behind ITV’s Whitechapel.
The BBC said the drama will “explore how the orderly, reassuringly clear worlds she created within her stories contrasted with the complexity of her own personal life”.
BBC drama commissioning controller Ben Stephenson added that Blyton’s stories are “a major part of our national psyche” and said that it felt “fitting” to dramatise her own story.
It is being written by Lindsay Shapero and directed by James Hawes, whose credits include Miss Marie Lloyd - Queen Of The Music Hall.
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- Entry for Enid Blyton in Wikipedia
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