110 years after Beatrix Potter’s original Peter Rabbit book was published, actress Emma Thompson has written a sequel The Further Tale of Peter Rabbit.
In a departure from the original, the tale is set in Scotland rather than the Lake District locale of Beatrix Potter’s stories of Peter, Jemima Puddleduck, Tom Kitten and Samuel Whiskers.
The Thompsons have form in the reworking and rebooting of classic material. Emma’s father Eric wrote the scripts for and narrated the English versions of The Magic Roundabout. He used stop-motion animations created in France adding his own inventive tales of Dougal and Zebedee over the top of the footage.
Listen to this delightful interview with Emma on BBC’s Radio 4 Woman’s Hour as she explains how Peter himself wrote her a letter asking if she would consider writing a sequel.
I’m sure Beatrix Potter would approve.
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