By Karen Blixen.
Dramatised by Judith Adams
Episode 1 : The Cuckoo
Soon after Karen Blixen relocates to East Africa, she finds herself alone in a foreign land with the enormous responsibility of trying to operate a successful coffee plantation. In order to accomplish this, she must get to know the land and the East Africans who work for and with her. In the process, she learns more about herself.
In 1913, Karen travels to Kenya to marry her second cousin and start a farm in Africa.
Karen Blixen ..... Emma Fielding
Denys Finch-Hatton ..... Tom Goodman-Hill
Kamante .... Beru Tessema
Farah ..... Maynard Eziashi
Wilhelm ..... Sean Baker
Directed by Gaynor Macfarlane.
Episode 2 : The Tapestry.
Soon after Karen Blixen relocates to East Africa, she finds herself alone in a foreign land with the enormous responsibility of trying to operate a successful coffee plantation. In order to accomplish this, she must get to know the land and the East Africans who work for and with her. In the process, she learns more about herself.
Karen is settling into life on the farm but Bror, her husband, has very different ideas. And there is also Lulu to contend with.
Karen Blixen ..... Emma Fielding
Kamante .... Beru Tessema
Farah ..... Maynard Eziashi
Bror ..... Sam Dale
Directed by Gaynor Macfarlane.
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Episode 3: Visitors to the Farm
Soon after Karen Blixen relocates to East Africa, she finds herself alone in a foreign land with the enormous responsibility of trying to operate a successful coffee plantation. In order to accomplish this, she must get to know the land and the East Africans who work for and with her. In the process, she learns more about herself.
Karen tells her beloved friends, Denys Finch-Hatton and Berkeley Cole about another, even more intriguing visitor to her farm - a young man named Emmanuelson who came, slept one night and walked away, never to return.
Karen Blixen ..... Emma Fielding
Denys Finch-Hatton ..... Tom Goodman-Hill
Berkeley ..... Sam Dale
Emmanuelson ..... Iain Batchelor
Farah ..... Maynard Eziashi
Directed by Gaynor Macfarlane.
Episode 4 : Icarus
Soon after Karen Blixen relocates to East Africa, she finds herself alone in a foreign land with the enormous responsibility of trying to operate a successful coffee plantation. In order to accomplish this, she must get to know the land and the East Africans who work for and with her. In the process, she learns more about herself.
Karen and Denys indulge in two of their favourite pursuits - shooting lions and flying in Denys's plane over Africa. Such is their love of the country, they decide that they would like to be buried on a ridge overlooking the Ngong hills.
Karen Blixen ..... Emma Fielding
Denys Finch-Hatton ..... Tom Goodman-Hill
Ismael ..... Jude Akuwudike
Kamante .... Beru Tessema
Farah ..... Maynard Eziashi
Directed by Gaynor Macfarlane.
Episode 5: The Giraffes Go to Hamburg
Soon after Karen Blixen relocates to East Africa, she finds herself alone in a foreign land with the enormous responsibility of trying to operate a successful coffee plantation. In order to accomplish this, she must get to know the land and the East Africans who work for and with her. In the process, she learns more about herself.
As Karen faces her greatest fear - the necessity of departure from Africa - the grasshoppers come and seal her fate. And there is still worse to come.
Karen Blixen ..... Emma Fielding
Denys Finch-Hatton ..... Tom Goodman-Hill
Kamante .... Beru Tessema
Farah ..... Maynard Eziashi
Bror ..... Sam Dale
Directed by Gaynor Macfarlane.
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