{"id":43317,"date":"2025-12-14T17:59:46","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T17:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/?p=43317"},"modified":"2025-12-14T17:59:46","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T17:59:46","slug":"christmas-2025-day-14-the-ebony-tower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/christmas-2025-day-14-the-ebony-tower\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas 2025: Day 14: The Ebony Tower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/category\/christmas-countdown-2025\/\" rel=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/category\/christmas-countdown-2025\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-43254 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/christmas25c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"142\" \/><\/a>Christmas 1984,<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"> <em>The Ebony Tower<\/em> &#8211; written by John Fowles and originally published in 1974 &#8211; aired on ITV on the 9th December.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Toyah filmed the 90-minute television drama, which was produced by Granada TV, in the Dordogne region of France during the Summer of 1983. She starred alongside Sir Laurence Olivier, Greta Scacchi and Roger Rees. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>The Ebony Tower<\/em>, and working with Laurence Olivier, is a memory and a career entry Toyah has often remembered in interviews across the past four decades.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Read an interview with Toyah, published when <em>The Ebony Tower<\/em> aired, by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/libp121.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Outlook magazine<\/span><\/strong><\/a>, and another from around the same time, by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/cosmopolitan-toyah-at-full-throttle-1983\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Cosmopolitan magazine<\/strong><\/span><\/a>. Read Dreamscape\u2019s 2011\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ebonytowerdvd2011.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>DVD<\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ebonytowerdvd2011.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>review<\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/span>, and view a couple of our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ebtowad12aa.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">fan adverts<\/span><\/strong><\/a>. (Thanks to andy for the screen cap below)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/ebonytower13d.jpg\" alt=\"ebonytower13d\" width=\"620\" height=\"305\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas 1984, The Ebony Tower &#8211; written by John Fowles and originally published in 1974 &#8211; aired on ITV on the 9th December. Toyah filmed the 90-minute television drama, which was produced by Granada TV, in the Dordogne region of France during the Summer of 1983. She starred alongside Sir Laurence Olivier, Greta Scacchi and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3428,3430,7],"tags":[2182],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43317"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43317"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43319,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43317\/revisions\/43319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}