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For Chris Larabee and Buck Wilmington, trips into town had become anything but routine since the orphan train had brought two small boys into their lives, and this particular trip was more significant than usual. The following Monday would be the first Monday in September, which meant school for the boys.
JD was bursting with excitement - school was a new experience for him. Vin was less enthusiastic. From what little he could get Vin to say on the subject, Chris suspected that Vin had been to school at the orphanage, and had not found it a happy experience. He wished he could promise the little boy that things would be different here, but he hadn't even met Miss Myrtle Withers, the newly-arrived school teacher, or seen the inside of the town's small one-room school. He'd left it up to Buck to take care of that and enroll the boys, mostly because Buck had found it a convenient excuse to meet Miss Withers, whom he had found to be frustratingly immune to the Wilmington charm.
As it turned out, there was no one at the school when they stopped to have a look. Chris and Buck had expected that Miss Withers might be there, making things ready for the children, and they found ample evidence that she had been - desks were arranged in neat rows, the chalkboard was clean and the flo
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Krakatoa: The Last Days
2006 British TV docudrama film directed by Sam Miller
| Krakatoa: The Last Days | |
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Cover art of BBC DVD. | |
| Genre | Docudrama History Disaster |
| Written by | Colin Heber-Percy Michael Olmert Lyall B. Watson |
| Directed by | Sam Miller |
| Starring | Rupert Penry-Jones Olivia Williams Kevin McMonagle |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language | English |
| Producers | Alan Eyres J. Gregory Smith |
| Cinematography | Giulio Biccari |
| Running time | 90 minutes |
| Budget | £2,200,000 |
| Network | BBC One |
| Release | 7 May 2006 (2006-05-07) |
Krakatoa: The Last Days (also titled Krakatoa: Volcano of Destruction in the U.S. on the Discovery Channel) is a BBC Televisiondocudrama that premiered on 7 May 2006 on BBC One. The program is based upon four eyewitness accounts of the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa, an active stratovolcano between the islands of Sumatra and Java, present day Indonesia.
Production
[edit]The series was produced by the BBC in co-production with Discovery Channel, RTL Television, and France 2.
Ratings
[edit]The film was broadcast on BBC One on 7 May 2006 and drew 6.4 million viewers (27% audience share)[1]
Synopsis
[edit]The 1883 eruption of Krakatoa is the second greatest volcanic e