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Summary

Dr. Jean Markham returns to the town she left as a teenager to take over her late father's medical practice. When a school-yard scuffle lands Charlie in her surgery, she invites him to visit the hives in her garden and tell his secrets to the bees, as she once did. The new friendship between the boy and the bee keeper brings his mother Lydia into Jean's world.

Cast

Anna Paquin

Jean Markham

Holliday Grainger

Lydia Weekes

Emun Elliott

Robert Weekes

Steven Robertson

Jim

Lauren Lyle

Annie Stock

Gregor Selkirk

Charlie Weekes

Kate Dickie

Pam Stock

Billy Boyd

Older Charlie (voice)

Euan Mason

John

Zara Howell

Chanting Girl 2

Violet Fluendy

Chanting Girl 3

Kaidon McGrath

Bully Boy

Liam Meghan

Billy

Joanne Gallagher

Mrs Bewick

Joni Samson

Connie

Isaac Jenkins

Tim

Farah Samson

Iris

Leo Hoyte-Egan

George

Sarah McCardie

Mrs Robson

Alexa Snell

Meg

Michael O'Connor

Pete

Rebecca Hanssen

Irene

Tori Burgess

Young Rose

Kyle Fitzpatrick

Rose Attacker 1

Ruaridh Mollica

Rose Attacker 2

Craig O'Hara

Rose Attacker 3

Ben Bradley

Grocer

Declan Gemmell

Jimmy

Penny Sharp

Abortionist

Lauren Boyle

Crew

Director

Annabel Jankel

Novel

Fiona Shaw

Screenplay

Jessica Ashworth

Screenplay

Henrietta Ashworth

Reviews

b

beyondthecineramadome

June 20, 2022

3

Full review: <a>https://www.tinakakadelis.com/beyond-the-cinerama-dome/2021/12/28/kept-you-like-a-secret-tell-it-to-the-bees-review<a>

Adapted from Fiona Shaw’s book of the same name, _Tell it to the Bees_ is a historical romance centering on a relationship between two women. Jean Markham (Anna Paquin) is a new doctor in a town in Scotland in the 1950s. She begins a friendship with a woman named Lydia Weekes (Holliday Grainger) after Lydia’s son Charlie (Gregor Selkirk) develops a fascination with Jean’s bees. Lydia is married to an abusive man (Emun Elliott) and their marriage is falling apart. In Jean, Lydia and Charlie find a supportive and caring person to lean on.