The Literate Kitty

It doesn’t matter if we’re living in the big city, an itty-bitty hamlet, or something in-between, we all expect the same access to the world around us... and for the most part, we get it, with internet, cellular technology, and all those forms of transportation at our disposal. Go back as little as eighty or so years, though, and that wasn’t the case... not in a place like South Riding , the small Yorkshire town at the heart of a recent BBC production of the same name. ❖ ❖ ❖ ❖ ❖ ❖ ❖ When the train stops in South Riding and thirty-something Sarah Burton steps out onto the platform, her look of consternation speaks volumes; trains, it seems, do not adhere to the same rigorous time schedules in this northern backwater as they do in London--something which isn’t likely to improve her odds of making a good impression at the job interview for which she’s now running late. She arrives with only a moment to catch her breath. That moment, however, is a telling one; a quick look at the other int...