Good days, bad days: Matthew Mcnulty and Jessica Brown Findlay in Jamaica Inn (Picture: Origin Pictures /Robert Viglasky)
25 April 2014
What a week for the proud Celts of Cornwall. Days after suffering the indignity of having the BBC’s adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s Jamaica Inn — one of the region’s literary classics — deemed incomprehensible by some viewers due to sound quality problems, the Cornish have been granted official minority status.
“After watching Jamaica Inn, the UK govt decided the Cornish need protection from themselves,” joked one wag on Twitter.
