On the Black Hill

On the Black Hill is a novel by Bruce Chatwin, published in 1982 and set on the border of England and Wales, the novel portrays the tale of identical twin brothers who grow up on a farm in rural Wales and never leave home. They till the rough soil and sleep in the same bed, touched only occasionally by the advances of the twentieth century.

In depicting the lives of Benjamin and Lewis and their interactions with their small local community Chatwin comments movingly on the larger questions of human experience.

On the Black Hill is a novel which portrays themes such as unrequited love, sexual repression and confusion, social, religious and cultural repression, hate and the historic social values of rural Britain

Performed by Callum Scott Howells (It’s a Sin, The Way, Cabaret, Romeo and Julie) and directed by Luke J.Collins), On the Black Hill combines a performance reading with flashback imagery.

The director was Luke J Collins, Series Producer Julie Colman, Exec Producer Grant Black and Commissioner for the BBC Stephen James-Yeoman.