![]() ![]() While Gerald explores the glorious landscape, the wildlife it has to offer and befriends the local population, Mother has other ideas: fearing her son is growing too wild, she is determined that he receives an education. Through the eager ministrations of a larger-than-life taxi-driver Spiro ( Omid Djalili), who himself has a soft spot for Mother, the family move to a succession of different coloured villas. ![]() This rag-tag family - innocent naturalist and intrepid biologist 12-year-old Gerald ( Eugene Simon), acne-infested Margot ( Tamzin Merchant), gun-loving Leslie ( Russell Tovey) and overbearing intellectual Larry, played by Matthew Goode (Chasing Liberty) - headed by their warm sympathetic mother ( Imelda Staunton) experience the joys of living a life of freedom and adventure.įor Mother especially, the experience is emotionally moving as she watches her youngest child Gerald grow up more and more each day. ![]() Award-winning actress Imelda Staunton stars in My Family And Other Animals, BBC ONE's warm and magical new adaptation by Simon Nye (Men Behaving Badly, Pride) of the famous autobiography by Gerald Durrell.Įscaping the dreary wet weather of Thirties England, the eccentric and bohemian Durrell family uproot and ship themselves to the sunnier climes of the Greek island of Corfu. ![]()
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