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Home » News » Nadine Dorries is fuming at BBC’s new Great Expectations

Nadine Dorries is fuming at BBC’s new Great Expectations

Peter Hitchens is also angry, as ever...

Joe Mellor by Joe Mellor
March 28, 2023
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On Sunday the BBC aired a new adaptation of Great Expectations.

It has been just 12 years since their last remake, but hey-ho.

Anyway, that doesn’t seem to be bothering certain people, it’s the content.

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Great Expectations follows the story of the classic Charles Dickens novel under the same title.

However, the new series has a dark twist to the traditional tale and is directed by Steven Knight, the creator of Peaky Blinders.

It stars Olivia Colman as Miss Havisham and Fionn Whitehead and Shalom Brune-Franklin as the adult Pip and Estella.

‘In-your-face multiculturalism’

A complaint about ‘in-your-face multiculturalism’ in the new Great Expectations has made some people very angry.

A new adaptation of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations includes an anti-colonial message not found in the iconic Victorian novel. https://t.co/5OsPdVhvTm

— LBC (@LBC) March 18, 2023

Nadine Dorries wasn’t happy about it, she wrote: “Such a predictable and awful shame. What a waste of licence fee payers money. The BBC has ruined Great Expectations.”

Such a predictable and awful shame. What a waste of licence fee payers money.

The BBC has ruined Great Expectations https://t.co/B5dVIsVPDF

— Rt Hon Nadine Dorries MP (@NadineDorries) March 27, 2023

Peter Hitchens wrote: “To those of us raised in the age of books, these ‘adaptations’ are violations. Great Expectations, beyond doubt one of the greatest books ever written, is as much part of the English mind as St Paul’s Cathedral or the Yorkshire Dales.”

To those of us raised in the age of books, these ‘adaptations’ are violations. Great Expectations, beyond doubt one of the greatest books ever written, is as much part of the English mind as St Paul’s Cathedral or the Yorkshire Dales. Dickens helps https://t.co/3GbsqWH5mk…

— Peter Hitchens (@ClarkeMicah) March 23, 2023

Paul Embery wrote: “So the new BBC adaptation of the Dickens masterpiece, Great Expectations, is an extravaganza of drug-taking, foul language and in-your-face multiculturalism. It’s like allowing kids to finger-paint over a da Vinci. Why can’t they just leave stuff alone?”

So the new BBC adaptation of the Dickens masterpiece, Great Expectations, is an extravaganza of drug-taking, foul language and in-your-face multiculturalism. It’s like allowing kids to finger-paint over a da Vinci. Why can’t they just leave stuff alone? https://t.co/FsSoUOCQkD

— Paul Embery (@PaulEmbery) March 24, 2023

The Spectator wrote: The BBC’s new Great Expectations is so bad it should be illegal
Steven Knight’s crass, sexed-up version of the novel strips it of all its humour and tenderness. Does he think he’s better than Dickens?”

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I have to admit it was really weird how the BBC burned every extant copy of the original. I wouldn't have thought they would have to do that but it would be the only way Paul's analogy here would make sense so they must have https://t.co/ZtlzbHick9

— WikiHow to say goodbye (@WikiHowToLogout) March 25, 2023

2.

19th century London famously had no drugs, swearing or black people in it. https://t.co/l5sDoORaSS

— jonny (@sensiblehuman96) March 24, 2023

3.

Wait till Paul hears they used to do Shakespeare with the women's roles played by men, he'll be absolutely furious! https://t.co/bFEvDvax1u

— Kevin Shaw 🇬🇧 #GTTO #JoinAUnion (@kevshaw99) March 26, 2023

4.

I was watching a production of Hamlet the other week, and the cast weren't even wearing hose and ruffs. IT'S WOKENESS GONE MAD. I AM POSITIVELY TUMESCENT WITH FURY. https://t.co/ije61VOYhu

— Tom Doran 🇺🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧 (@portraitinflesh) March 25, 2023

5.

Dickens struggled with an opium addiction, had 12 children that we know of, several great loves outside of his marriage, was *passionate* throughout his life about reforming the conditions that the working class and the very poorest of society lived and died in, 1/2 pic.twitter.com/GmJVLUHVBH

— Sorcha Ní Nia (@Luiseach) March 25, 2023

6.

including people who were not white because shocker, London was a multicultural city then as it is now, and he also did a lot of travelling, and I guarantee you will have sworn. ‘past authors were perfect paragons’ are incredibly odd, they were human. hope that helps Paul x

— Sorcha Ní Nia (@Luiseach) March 25, 2023

7.

Do today's Puritans complaining about the BBC adaptation of Great Expectations seriously imagine that swearing, primal sexuality and drugs were not part of Dickens's world? That Magwitch would never have said 'fuck'? Dickens couldn't write reality because he'd have been censored.

— Andy Burge 🇪🇺🇬🇧🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦✊🏿 (@AndyGJBurge) March 27, 2023

8.

Wait till Paul hears they used to do Shakespeare with the women's roles played by men, he'll be absolutely furious! https://t.co/bFEvDvax1u

— Kevin Shaw 🇬🇧 #GTTO #JoinAUnion (@kevshaw99) March 26, 2023

9.

No, it's like allowing kids to paint their own version of a Da Vinci that's more relatable to their lives in 2023.

The original Great Expectations by Charles Dickens still exists.

If a blue-eyed, blonde-haired actor can play Jesus, a black actress can play Estella. Get over it. https://t.co/Cg5Ggbd46q

— Frank Owen's Legendary Paintbrush🥀🇵🇸🇾🇪 (@OwenPaintbrush) March 25, 2023

10.

Nothing wrong with an adaptation. Doesn’t damage the original #GreatExpectations – I once saw Richard III @RoundhouseLDN in Russian. Superb. They’ve even done the same play at National Theatre with Richard’s mob as gangsters in pinstripe suits. https://t.co/eK97X6FvU4

— Chris Skudder (@chris_skudder) March 27, 2023

Related: Nick Robinson and Richard Madeley called out for comments today

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