My Boy Jack

My Boy Jack is a 2007 television drama based on David Haig's 1997 play My Boy Jack. It was filmed in August 2007, with Haig as Rudyard Kipling and Daniel Radcliffe as John (Jack) Kipling. It does not include act three of the play, which extended to the 1920s and 1930s. Instead it ends with Kipling reciting the poem My Boy Jack. The American television premiere was on April 20, 2008 on PBS, with primetime rebroadcast on 27 March 2011. The film did well, attracting about 5.7 million viewers on its original broadcast in the UK on Remembrance Day, November 11, 2007.nAs The Great War (WWI) begins, 17 year old Jack Kipling (Radcliffe), the only son of the famous English writer and poet Rudyard Kipling, declares his intention to join the Royal Navy to fight against the Germans. The elder Kipling (Haig), who encourages him in his ambition, arranges several appointments for him to enlist in both the Army and Navy. However, Jack's poor eyesight prevents him from passing the medical examinations...