Larksrise to candleford?

[Leah]

Hhhmmmmm.......

[Carole]

Hhhmmmmm.......

Hhhmmmmmmmmm indeed. I think it is only very loosely based on the original biographical novel.... VERY LOOSELY.

What was Dawn French supposed to be wearing? She looked like someone dressed up as a gypsy fortune teller ?????

Having said that I had a great evening doing ooh aah accents - from Miss Steele's Devonian in Sense and Sensibility, through the ooh my lovies RADA Oxfordshire in Larkrise to Candleford ending up with some nice Norfolkese in Kingdom - the pub landlord in Kingdom has a wonderful Norfolk twang.

Carole

[Leah]

Hhhmmmmmmmmm indeed. I think it is only very loosely based on the original biographical novel.... VERY LOOSELY.

What was Dawn French supposed to be wearing? She looked like someone dressed up as a gypsy fortune teller ?????

Having said that I had a great evening doing ooh aah accents - from Miss Steele's Devonian in Sense and Sensibility, through the ooh my lovies RADA Oxfordshire in Larkrise to Candleford ending up with some nice Norfolkese in Kingdom - the pub landlord in Kingdom has a wonderful Norfolk twang.

Carole
hehe, I turned over to Kingdom too! By the end of the night I was quite overcome by clouds of pastoral Idyll and bluff red cheeks!

Though LRTC was a bit like watching Heartbeat with everyone dressed as Widow Twanky... will wait and see if it improves. I have faith in Dawn French :)

[Carole]

I have faith in Dawn French :)

But not that corset! :eeeek:

Carole

[Leah]

But not that corset! :eeeek:

Carole
I imagine that corset is an example of engineering that nasa would be proud of....at least I hope so, else someone's going to lose a limb if it busts!

[Carole]

I imagine that corset is an example of engineering that nasa would be proud of....at least I hope so, else someone's going to lose a limb if it busts!


:lol: :lol: :lol:

The whole thing really was just daft ....

Carole

[Leah]

:lol: :lol: :lol:

The whole thing really was just daft ....

Carole
Yes it was...only time will tell whether I get fed up with it or whether winter gloom will make all those lambent sunshine shots seem unmissable. I could live with a little more drama and a little less saccharine :angelic

[Carole]

I just don't believe anyone ever lived like that - at least not on planet earth anyway.

Carole

[Leah]

I suppose you could get artyfarty and say that often this period was idealised in literature [and these 'decent wholesome next-to nature-closer-to-god type hearty rustic folks' that teach us so many simple lessons about how to live better lives .....] so perhaps this is what is being attempted with the dramatisation....or it could just as easily be a commercial attempt to grab the attention of the GBP who like their sundays nights to be gentle and goodhearted :)

[Lucia]

I have to admit that having been forced to read the book for 'A' level left me with a deep and abiding loathing of it - and I always avoid anything with Dawn French in it, up to and including Terry's Chocolate Orange ads, so it wasn't for me!
On the other hand, I always make a point of watching anything with Stephen Fry in it, up to and including tea ads, so I recorded 'Kingdom' as a treat for tonight! :D

[capricciosababs]

we watched it - what a hoot! dawns corset looked like the bodice off that superheroine who used to wear red white and blue outfits whatever she was called - cant remember right now? is it supposed to be serious or a comic drama anybody know? apart from this at least its light entertainment and dont have to concentrate a lot on the potty dramatic plots...

[DizzyJenni]

wonderwoman babs?

[capricciosababs]

who? ME?
sorry...yes that was the one in the tv series wasnt it> the one the men all watched in awe (and not for the acting!)

[nose leather]

Yes loved it. Fancy all that fuss over 3/6 but that was a almost a week's wages for them.

[capricciosababs]

did they realy have lady postmanagers in those days though or was that tv poetic licence?

[Carole]

Episode Two .....


........... well?


Better than the first, but that's not saying much!

Carole

[capricciosababs]

agree there - not much of a plot!

[Leah]

So sweet...so gentle....found myself wishing Patty had been in the workhouse without references because of a lamentable compulsion to season her delicious pies with arsenic!!! Was desperate for some melodrama!

[Carole]

I gave it a miss - the first two episodes put me off and went all cultural with She Stoops to Conquer on Sky Arts instead!

Carole

[Leah]

I just keep hoping for a nice juicy murder and some excitement!

[capricciosababs]

was so slloooowwwwwww.... but we watched it til we both fell fast asleep with the tv set turned on!