Cider with Rosie

Made by Carlton Television for ITV UK this adaptation of Laurie Lees autobiographical novel follows a young mans maturation in the country town of Gloucestershire near the end of World War I As young Laurie Dashiell Reece comes of age under the protective eye of his mother Juliet Stevenson he learns to live with an eccentric collection of friends neighbours and relatives As he enters his teenage years Laurie now played by Joe Roberts discovers women specifically Rosie Burdock Lia Barrow Veteran screenwriter John Mortimer adapted Lees book with Lee narrating