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CBM Book & Production Partner Broadcast Drama Project<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Revised Synopsis:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

‘The Whispering Tree’<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Based on a true story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Central character of The Whispering Tree is Emily Burnett, a young lady whose burning ambition and self-assured nature are way ahead of the Victorian era which guided her upbringing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emily journeyed alone from her London roots to the sleepy market town of Otley, Yorkshire, surrounded by remote and generationally insular farming communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her journey was an ambitious personal quest to secure control of a newly built school as its first principal. Emily’s arrival was greeted with hostility and suspicion by many, including a newly formed School Board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emily’s motivation was to provide unwavering devotion to the children in her charge, and to the local communities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her determination to succeed within  communities dominated by bigoted male interference, became legendary as she won over the hearts, minds and respect of those who had shunned her arrival in the valley. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The young lass from London whose strength of character, love and kindness helped her to become the school\u2019s inspirational principal. This, despite her own personal loss as the First World War raged in France. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Whispering Tree story is told in regressive mode as Emily recounts her life at the school and local communities, interwoven with real-life diary facts and creative fiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scripting provides a powerful insight into daily life of turn-of-the-century education, and the harsh and suffocated hillside village life endured. It also highlights the raw attitudes menfolk held against women of opinion and authority in male dominated Victorian society. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

‘The Whispering Tree’ \u00a9<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story origin follows below the photographic gallery<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Acknowledgements:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mel Vasey \u2013 former Editor-in-Chief
Wharfdale Observer<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Legal:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Whispering Tree \u00a9
Malcolm R Fane \u00a9
Concrete Butterflies Media \u00a9
Photography: Nigel Ibbotson \u00a9<\/p>\n\n\n\n