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Arts: Take your seats, the Forsytes are back It's back after 35 years, in a completely new interpretation. But, asks Lynne Walker, will this Forsyte Saga grip the nation like before?

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From: The Independent - London
Date: 20020406
Author:Lynne Walker

Everyone of a certain age remembers the landmark adaptation of John Galsworthy's The Forsyte Saga. It made television history in the 1960s, casting its long shadow over various radio dramatisations of the same story, and reaching 100 million people in 26 countries. Now, Granada Television is presenting a lavish 21st-century take on the first two books of Galsworthy's epic, The Man of Property and In Chancery. A later collection, On Forsyte Change, might have been a more interesting choice, or the last volumes in the Forsyte trilogy, The Final Chapter, but the producer Sita Williams is bullish ...

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