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    TV & RADIO

    Jun 02, 2020 3 minutes

    THE LUMINARIES

    June

    BBC One

    ooking as splendid as could be hoped in its evocation of the past and its depiction of a spectacularly beautiful country, writer Eleanor Catton’s six-part adaptation of her own Man Booker Prize-winning novel looks set to be one of the TV highlights of the summer. The action takes place in the middle of the 1860s, a time when the West Coast Gold Rush in New Zealand drew prospectors from around the world.

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