Mainly books, but also other pleasing things
Posted in Books, Non-fiction, TV on Aug 14th, 2009
I’ve been watching Griff’s TV series Rivers, so I was thrilled to read on the Mostly Books blog that he was giving a talk in Abingdon. Of course, by the time I read about it all the tickets were sold out, but I had a phone call yesterday morning – some tickets had been returned [...]
Posted in TV on Dec 21st, 2008
So last night was the end of this year’s Strictly Come Dancing and what an end! I had wanted Tom Chambers to win all along, although I also liked Austin Healey and Lisa Snowdon too. Tom’s free style dance last night was just brilliant – words fail me, I was entranced. This must be the [...]
Posted in TV on Dec 18th, 2007
Sunday saw the last episode of “Cranford”. The final episode was very dramatic and there was a happy ending but overall I still felt disgruntled by the combination of three of Elizabeth Gaskell’s books. I suppose that if I hadn’t read “Cranford” I’d never have known that the difference. I wouldn’t have missed the parts [...]
The third episode of “Cranford” is being shown on BBC1 this evening. Over the course of last week I have puzzled over my reaction to the production. If I hadn’t only recently read Elizabeth Gaskell’s Cranford I might not have been so bemused. I was quite prepared to find that the actors and the locations [...]
Last night I watched the first episode of the BBC’s dramatisation of Cranford. I liked it. Last week I read Elizabeth Gaskell’s Cranford. I loved it. They are two different things. If you haven’t read the book Cranford, don’t think that the BBC’s version is the same – it isn’t. Someone once said to me [...]
Posted in Books, National Trust, TV on Sep 16th, 2007
Coming up on the BBC this autumn is Cranford by Mrs Gaskell, starring Dame Judi Dench and a whole host of stars, including Dame Eileen Atkins, Julia McKenzie, Barbara Flynn, Julia Sawalha and Imelda Staunton. Set in the fictional town of Cranford, a small Cheshire town based on Knutsford (where Mrs Gaskell grew up), the [...]
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