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+ | The Fasting Girl was a BBC 2 Wales TV drama broadcast in 1984<ref>[http://tvrdb.com/listings/?y=1984&m=02&d=18 TVRDB TV listing]</ref>. It was a dramatisation of newspaper reports from 1869 concerning a little Welsh girl who was claimed to have fasted, with no significant loss of health, for more than a year<ref>[http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b7160c712 BFI.org]</ref>. | ||
− | + | LNWR Ramsbottom 0-4-0ST No 1439 was loaned to the SVR for filming which took place in May 1983 at Arley, renamed Pencader for the production<ref>SVR News 68</ref>. | |
A brief extract is featured in an ABC TV trailer on [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEFEMSTCl7g YouTube], though with no obvious SVR connection. | A brief extract is featured in an ABC TV trailer on [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEFEMSTCl7g YouTube], though with no obvious SVR connection. |
Revision as of 16:48, 29 November 2015
The Fasting Girl was a BBC 2 Wales TV drama broadcast in 1984[1]. It was a dramatisation of newspaper reports from 1869 concerning a little Welsh girl who was claimed to have fasted, with no significant loss of health, for more than a year[2].
LNWRLondon & North Western Railway Ramsbottom 0-4-0ST No 1439 was loaned to the SVRSevern Valley Railway for filming which took place in May 1983 at Arley, renamed Pencader for the production[3].
A brief extract is featured in an ABC TV trailer on YouTube, though with no obvious SVRSevern Valley Railway connection.
References
- ↑ TVRDB TV listing
- ↑ BFI.org
- ↑ SVRSevern Valley Railway News 68