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IVANDOUGH!; Beeb's pounds 6m bid to bring Sir Walter's epic novel to the telly.(News)

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From: Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
Date: 19960515
Author:Millar, John

The BBC are splashing out pounds 6MILLION on a lavish production of Ivanhoe.

Braveheart star James Cosmo and his fellow actors tackle sword fights and horseback heroics in the Sir Walter Scott classic.

But they found it a lot harder to tackle Scott's epic prose.

Hardly any of the cast could face a ...

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