2nd November 1979
Tarka the Otter released in cinemas
Based on Henry Williamson’s novel of the same name, the screenplay for Tarka the Otter was co-written by Gerald Durrell, founder of Jersey Zoo. The otter that played the film’s title role was actually called Spade. Otters also featured prominently in the ITV series The Durrells, which told the story of Gerald Durrell’s childhood growing up in Corfu.
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Other events that occured in November
Drunk woman is banished from Jersey
- A drunk woman was sentenced to prison with hard labour, followed by banishment from Jersey for at least five years.
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Fire service cleans up corrosive spill at the power station
- A corrosive spill at the power station managed to eat through two pumps before it could all be gathered up and safely contained.
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Spy Philippe d’Auvergne is born in Jersey
- Philippe d’Auvergne was a mariner who was on the cusp of inheriting a fortune and a title when France put its foot down and said 'no'.
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Poet and bailiff Robert Pipon Marett is born
- Marett had a creative side, and wrote extensively in Jèrriais under the pseudonym Laelius, often in La Patrie, the newspaper he founded.
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