Following Beeson generally follows Lee’s Cider with Rosie and gives us Slad’s church choir’s annual picnic, a daylong outing to Weston-super-Mare on the Bristol Channel. Lee narrates this film, and since his memoir is largely fiction, whatever Beeson needed for his story, Lee obliged.
As in Lee’s narrative, his mother, Ann Lee, always dawdles, and everyone waits for her. But at Weston, Beeson’s idea of a picnic suggests a day at a fair. Groups separated: the men to pubs to “have a wet: the women to tea parlors; and the children to an amusement pier or walk on the mushy mud left by the receding tide. 
The cast: Juliet Stevenson as Annie Lee; Dashiell Reece as Laurie Lee
See Charles Beeson. Cider with Rosie (1998). Screenplay by John Mortimer based on Rosie Laurie Lee’s memoir. The memoir was filmed without the picnic in 1971and again in 2015.
*The charabanc [SHarəˌbaNG, -ˌbaNGk] was a motor coach for hire popular through the 1920s. Dylan Thomas’ The Outing (1953) is a daylong pub crawl in a charabanc.