'Enid' diffusé le 16 novembre 2009 sur BBC Four

Enid is the first of three major one-off films to première on BBC Four as part of the Women We Loved season about the artistic careers of British female icons Margot Fonteyn, Gracie Fields and Enid Blyton.

Enid Blyton's charming characters and classic tales have enchanted generations of children for nearly 80 years. More than 500 million copies of her books have been sold in 40 countries.

This one-off drama reveals the woman behind such enduring stories as the beloved Famous Five, Secret Seven, Malory Towers and the Noddy series. The film will cast light on this ambitious and driven woman from the adversity of her imperfect childhood to her rise to become a renowned author and household name. Enid explores how the orderly, reassuringly clear worlds she created in her stories contrasted with the complexity of her personal life.

Helena Bonham Carter (Harry Potter, Sweeney Todd) plays Enid and Matthew Macfadyen (Frost/Nixon, Little Dorrit) plays Hugh Pollock, her publisher, first husband and father of her daughters Gillian and Imogen. Denis Lawson (Bleak House) plays Kenneth Darrell Waters, a London surgeon who becomes Enid's second husband following her divorce, and Claire Rushbrook (Mutual Friends) plays her friend, Dorothy.

For further insight into Enid Blyton's life, a new online BBC Archive collection will be available closer to transmission at bbc.co.uk/archive.

Enid
Monday 16 November
9:00pm - 10:25pm
BBC4

Drama about the life of children's storyteller Enid Blyton, following her career from ambitious, driven and unpublished young woman to household name and moral guardian, whilst glimpsing her own childhood - a dark time, far from the carefree, happy idyll portrayed in her books. Through marriages and children, the roles of Enid the wife and mother are portrayed, ones she struggled to fulfil whilst balancing them with her extraordinary output.

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Subtitled, Widescreen

Cast
Helena Bonham Carter,Matthew Macfadyen,Denis Lawson,Claire Rushbrook,Joseph Millson,Ramona Marquez

Directed by: James Hawes

Be sure to catch BBC 4’s latest 90-minute drama Enid on Monday 16th November at 9pm.

Produced by Carnival Films, Enid charts the life of bestselling author Enid Blyton, creator of The Famous Five, The Secret Seven and Noddy. The biopic will focus on the author’s troubled private life, especially the breakdown of her first marriage to Hugh Pollock, played by MATTHEW MACFADYEN.

BBC4 have enjoyed great success with one-off dramas in the past and with a fantastic central cast, Helena Bonham Carter (Enid) and MATTHEW MACFADYEN, we are sure this will not disappoint!