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 ...

Starring Dame Judi Dench and Dustin Hoffman, the BBC adaptation of Roald Dahl’s Esio Trot is set to be one of the festive TV highlights. And now the meeting that inspired the story of pensioners ...

But she focuses all of her affection on her pet turtle. Weinstein Co. co-chairman Harvey Weinstein said: “Roald Dahl is one of the most revered children’s authors in history, so needless to ...

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 ...

James Corden has been criticised for his narration of Roald Dahl’s Esio Trot, with hundreds of viewers branding him “awful” on social media. The much-hyped TV adaptation aired on BBC1 last ...

Roald Dahl’s Esio Trot (BBC1) was an adaptation of his tortoise ... lesser-celebrated books and the plot centres not on the children whose anarchic cruelty Dahl understood so well, but on ...

Dahl’s story takes place almost entirely in an apartment building, where its two lonelyhearts, silver-haired Mr. Hoppy and redheaded Mrs. Silver (Dench), live one above the other. For years ...

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 ...

A rare romance from the typically dark imagination of children’s book author Roald Dahl, “Esio Trot” spells more than just “tortoise” backwards, but an evening of warm-fuzzy feelings all ...