JAMES NORTON TO LEAD
WAVEWALKER: BREAKING FREE TV SERIES
After we see him as Harold Earl of Wessex in King and Conqueror epic TV series at BBC later this year, James Norton will take another series lead: he will topline four part series adaptation of WAVEWALKER: BREAKING FREE memoir by Suzanne Heywood. He will also produce the series which
tells how Heywood's parents took her on a trip around the world on a sailing boat when she was aged 7, in a journey which ended up lasting for a decade. He will play the roguish father who paints this beautiful picture about the trip that is meant to take a year or two, but takes about 10. The two children were basically enslaved by their father as crew members on this boat. He denied them a youth and an education.
tells how Heywood's parents took her on a trip around the world on a sailing boat when she was aged 7, in a journey which ended up lasting for a decade. He will play the roguish father who paints this beautiful picture about the trip that is meant to take a year or two, but takes about 10. The two children were basically enslaved by their father as crew members on this boat. He denied them a youth and an education.
How could a father do this to his own children? I wonder how they are going to survive without education...
ReplyDeleteHe did not see it as something bad, he actually loved them and was devoted to them, but obviously selfish in this respect. There are a lot of parents today who homeschool their kids so that they would be free to roam the world, we have a celebrity like that , who took her son out of school so that she could travel the world.
DeleteThat's awful!
ReplyDeleteHappened back in the 70s.
DeleteThat's terrible but it doesn't even surprise me that someone did something like this.
ReplyDeleteThere are many parents like that, methinks
DeleteBut they did get a worldly education. Life experiences are sometimes more valuable than what you can learn sitting in a classroom for 8 hours each day. As long as they could read, write, and do some math, they got to see the world and interact with different cultures, and I find that quite educational in itself.
ReplyDeleteWell, she did write her memoirs, so she obviously did get some kind of education and literacy. But kids do need stability and daily routine of a permanent home.
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