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Not really an article as such, but the blurb from the Daily Mail Weekend TV magazine about The Orchard Walls.


Daily Mail Weekend magazine, 26/12/98

Honeysuckle Weeks
The Orchard Walls
ITV 9.30pm (not Scottish)

Age: 19
Style: A Jenny Agutter for the Nineties.
Attitude: Hard-working teenager - she
has been on TV since she was 13.
She says: 'I think that in order to last as an
actor, you need either experience of life or
education, or both' - Honeysuckle won a
scholarship to Roedean and is now reading
English at Oxford.
They say: 'A child isn't going to get
anywhere in acting unless the parents are a
bit pushy' - her mum, Susan Weeks.
And another thing: Honeysuckle has a sister,
Perdita, also an actress, and a brother Rollo.
What next: On the up and up...

The Orchard Walls
ITV 9.30pm, (not Scottish)

A programme that has nothing to do with 1998 ending! This latest Ruth Rendell is a wartime mystery starring Honeysuckle Weeks as teenager Jenny, evacuated from London to live with her aunt's family in rural Hampshire. Unfortunately, walking into Aunt Ella's house is like walking into a wake for the art of conversation. Uncle Daniel is less fun than diptheria; the head of the house, Mrs Thorn, worries constantly about her son who is fighting in Tobruk; and Ella is acting oddly. Feigning a headache at a cinema visit with Jenny, she leaves, to return much later, suddenly all smiles...