Midwinter magic: Robert Macfarlane on the enduring power of The Dark Is Rising

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Susan Cooper’s 1973 novel, newly adapted for a BBC audio series, has enthralled generations of children and writers with its folkloric tale of an English boy caught in a battle between light and dark

and Helen Macdonald, for whom Cooper’s work has also been influential. For Max Porter, the series “did more for my imagination, for my vocabulary, for any curiosity or concern I had for Englishness, for history, for listening, than anything I learned at school”; it gave him and his brother “a mythology that we could see and feel around us in rural England, and on our windswept holiday weeks in Snowdonia”.

It’s long been a puzzle to me that there aren’t more adaptations of Cooper’s novels . There was an American film “version” in 2007, so appalling that I and all true Cooper fans refuse to speak its name. A radio adaptation for BBC Children’sEarly in the process of adaptation, in discussion with Complicité’s brilliant producer Tim Bell, Simon and I resolved on four creative principles. First, that we would honour Cooper’s novel and its 50-year-long power of enchantment.

 

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