Let the Classics Be!

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

Mary Poppins 2? A new film deals with the clash between Walt Disney and Mary Poppins author PLTravers over the screen version of her creation.

But the writer and friend of Travers, Brian Sibley, has another story to tell — of the unmade sequel he and the author worked on together.

Writer Brian Sibley on Saving Mr Banks and the unmade sequel to Mary Poppins

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Mary Poppins would have sniffed indignantly and her creator, PL Travers, would have been appalled.