Roald Dahl’s Esio Trot is the story of burgeoning love between two pensioners – the shy and quiet Mr Hoppy (Dustin Hoffman) and the outgoing-but-dim Mrs Silver (Judi Dench). Mr Hoppy is far ...

It wouldn't be the holiday season without a helping of a Roald Dahl story, and we're in for a treat today as Richard Curtis' adaptation of Esio Trot airs on BBC One. The drama, based on Dahl's ...

Dustin Hoffman and Judi Dench in ‘Roald Dahl’s Esio Trot’ Credit: Photo: BBC The last time tortoises had a starring TV role was on the opening credits of One Foot In The Grave. Tonight ...

Mayhew-Archer’s 2015 TV movie Esio Trot was based on the novel by Roald Dahl and starred Dustin Hoffman and Judi Dench. He co-wrote the drama with Richard Curtis after they previously ...

Esio Trot? A strange title for a book you might think, but the answer to the riddle lies in the inventive spirit of its famous creator. Roald Dahl ... s wildly ingenious plot win the love of ...

Mr Hoppy (Dustin Hoffman) lives a quiet retiree's life, tending to his balcony garden, pottering to the shops and back and secretly being passionately, hopelessly in love with his downstairs ...

Tonight, though, they were central to another tale of retiree romance. Roald Dahl's Esio Trot (BBC One) was a warm, witty and whimsical adaptation of the author's 1990 novel which would have melted ...