BBC ANNOUNCES TV SERIES ADAPTATION OF TIME TRAVELLING THE MINISTRY OF TIME BOOK

 THE MINISTRY OF TIME 

BBC ANNOUNCES NEW TV ADAPTATION

Among the twelve rather uninspired new shows announced yesterday at BBC the only one that caught my little spy eye was THE MINISTRY OF TIME a six part series based on Kaliane Bradley's novel about a newly established government department, which is gathering ‘expats’ from across history in an experiment to test the viability of time-travel. Commander Graham

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Gore (an officer on Sir John Franklin's doomed 1845 Arctic expedition) is one such figure rescued from certain death, alongside an army captain from the fields of the Somme, a plague victim from the 1600s, a widow from revolutionary France, and a soldier from the seventeenth century. They are placed with 21st century liaisons, known as 'bridges', in unlikely flatshares. Gore has to learn about contemporary life from scratch: from air travel to industrial warfare, from cinema to indoor plumbing; and he must negotiate cohabiting with the ambitious modern woman who works as his bridge. After an awkward beginning, the pair start to find pleasure and comfort in each other’s company, developing a relationship that is simultaneously tender, intense and profoundly unprofessional; and the expats, adrift in a new era, form friendships that ground and support them in the lonely 21st century, where they have outlived everyone they ever knew and loved. When a deeper conspiracy at the Ministry begins to reveal itself, the bridge must reckon with what she does next. Will she save or sacrifice the exiled misfits she has come to care for so deeply?