![]() ![]() ![]() Main image: Muriel Spark (1918 - 2006) (1960 Photo by Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images). Now in a special edition marking the 100th anniversary of the authors birth, Muriel Sparks classic novel, widely hailed as one of the 20th centurys best. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie was a seven-part adaptation by STV of the Muriel Spark novel of the same name, broadcast on Sunday late-nights on network ITV. Philip Dodd is joined by novelists Ian Rankin, Louise Welsh and former Bishop of Edinburgh Richard Holloway to examine this acclaimed and disturbing portrait of adolescent trauma and lost innocence. However, her passionate relationship with her pupils gradually deteriorates from the eccentric and enriching, to the damaging and politically vicious. Miss Jean Brodie was an unusual teacher at the Marcia Blaine School for girls, in Edinburgh. When she decides to transform a group of young pupils into the crème de la crème of Marcia Blaine school, 'the Brodie Set' feel honoured and privileged - but in return she expects their undivided loyalty: "give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life". ![]() She's a dangerously confused woman, headstrong and left single by the holocaust of young men in the First World War, and forced to work out her frustrations as a teacher in a conventional Edinburgh school for girls. ![]() Its heroine Jean Brodie, is a schoolmistress with a difference - proud, cultured and romantic, her ideas are progressive and radical. Philip Dodd presents a Landmark edition examining Muriel Spark's 1961 novel The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie It's a fierce assault on the smug, joyless and sexless quality of Edinburgh middle-class life in the 1930s. ![]()
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