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From: The Independent on Sunday
Date: 20040418
Author:Stuart Price

Anthony Trollope stuck to a tight schedule, writing for three hours every morning before heading off to his job at the Post Office. If he happened to finish one novel within the morning's allotted time, he'd start another. The scriptwriter Andrew Davies, you suspect, sticks to pretty much the same schedule, so prolific has been his output of period adaptations for both the BBC and ITV.

Trollope and Davies make a suitable pairing, and appropriately, after his Bafta award-winning The Way We Live Now back in 2001, Davies has reworked another of Trollope's 47 novels. This four-part Othello riff ...

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