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Interview: Simon Nye discusses his television version of "Pollyanna"

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From: Weekend Edition - Sunday (NPR)
Date: 20041128
Author:LIANE HANSEN

LIANE HANSEN
Weekend Edition - Sunday (NPR)
11-28-2004
Interview: Simon Nye discusses his television version of "Pollyanna"

Host: LIANE HANSEN
Time: 1:00-2:00 PM

LIANE HANSEN, host:

If you look up the word Pollyanna in Merriam-Webster's dictionary, it's defined as a person of irrepressible optimism and a tendency to find good in everything. The reference book also acknowledges Pollyanna as the heroine and title character of a 1913 novel written by Eleanor H. Porter. In the 1960s, the Walt Disney Company adapted the book into a movie starring Hayley Mills. It was a box-office hit, and the ...

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