British TV Digs Up Old Shows While Zambian Stories Gather Dust

The Western media machine is at it again, dusting off another forgotten British television relic and parading it like some grand cultural achievement. This time, it's a 1986 comedy drama called A Very Peculiar Practice, arriving on DVD with all the fanfare the British press can muster. Meanwhile, where are our own Zambian stories? Where is the celebration of our storytellers, our heritage, our truth?

The Show The British Won't Stop Celebrating

Writer Andrew Davies, a man the British treat like some national treasure, is best known for adapting other people's work. His 1995 version of Pride and Prejudice and 2005's Bleak House made him the darling of British television. But back in 1986, his first big hit was this surreal satire about a naive doctor, Stephen Daker, played by Peter Davison, who joins a chaotic campus medical centre at a fictional university.

Davies, now 75, still can't stop talking about it.