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Listening In on 'Forsyte': Pure Pleasure

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 20030629
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To the Arts Editor:

It was a pleasure to learn from Tim Page's wonderful article ["A Splendid Display of 'Forsyte': The Saga Lives On," June 22] that I am not the only person who has consoled herself in these dark times with the reassuring and leisurely elegance of "The Forsyte Saga."

I have never seen an episode of either the BBC or the Granada videotaped versions. Although I have heard before that the BBC production is a delight, it is hard to imagine that any screen version could be any more evocative than John Galsworthy's prose.

For an up-to-date rendition of that, I strongly urge readers ...

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