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I recently listened to the audiobook of the excellent biography by Paula Byrne, The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym. I want Miranda Hart to play Barbara in her next biopic.

If you were Brit, you would say ‘the Driver and I!’

Wonderful play; it made me think of my own Grandfather, Stanley Middleton, he was a writer and a contemperary of Barabra Pym. They were very similiar in their writing style. Most moving. Thanks for posting.

delightful performance!

What a stellar supporting cast

Almost a documentary with so many well known , often , literary people of that era . When I ran a bookshop I met Barbara’s sister Hilary. Such a wonderful short list for the Booker that year .

I am in seventh heaven watching this. The trouble with publishers and critiques is they assume that individuals wouldnt read a book rather than maybe testing what people think abd in tgat way I hate tye way thry control ehat people read, think even have the chance to enjoy , its almost like playing God in that respect, and why books films have in sime ways through just popular culture dumnd down individuals tastes and expectations. Its the same with films, program networks producers and that is why the BBC no longer produces a variety of Conedies and plays or programs the qaukity that they used to. You cannot keep assuming what people should or should not like, there are incredible writers out there to make incredible books,programs comedies and films and some of the very best are observational and or situational, maybe because individuals can identify with situations or observational or internal monaligues because we all experience those hings but either cannot or do not put then into words . Allan Bennet is one of my favourite writers. I love descriptive writers, who can transport you into that book film etc , that's an incredible bit of writing when an Author can do that and hours just seem to go missing . I cannot understand someone saying they hate discriotion, its like saying you hate to sit and look at the clouds moving over the sky in all kinds of weather, which is a really a very strang thing to imagine for me, reading wiuld seem so hollow firmal like that for me😊

Therapeutic in its serenity.

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Fabulous Pat and its got Marcia Warren AND Susan Wooldridge.

Discovered this on BBC4 recently and had to rewatch. What a mesmerising tribute to an author I knew nothing about. Patricia Routledge wonderful, restrained performance. I wish they still made them like this - the show and the lady!

An absolute gem. ❤

Very good program

Completely wonderful, all of it. And Jilly Cooper at the jumble sale! Thanks so much for posting this video, S Holmes💚

Like a huge comfort blanket ❤

I feel a depression coming on watching this...its all quite grim.

mr heartly from the 80s advert old actor buying flowers ,

A quietly beautiful film - we need more of these. Slow and understated everyday things and people - refreshing.

Thank you. This was wonderful

I’ve just recalled my Grandmother talking about Barbara Pym. She used to sew for Barbara’s mother, so requested Barbara’s books from the library. To be honest, the books weren’t quite to her taste, but that was more about the genre than the writer.

I thought Henry had dies by the time if her Booker evening. Who is playing his part in this here?

A touching tribute, which reminded me of a quote from a collection of Larkin's letters, which summed up Pym's work perfectly - "A steady background of rueful yet courageous acceptance of things".

Loved this❤ PLEAZE post more❤

A lovely bit of escapism, from a gentler time. Thanks for sharing.

So glad she got the recognition she deserved before she passed away. Amazing to think that her work was passed over so many times before “Quartet”.

Who wrote poem at end of film? Who sent her the poem?

Patricia, a British icon from a time gone forever in old England.. lovely story of village life. Thank you.

I believe the Swan was guilty, but the Owl was Innocent.

A must see❤❤A truly moving masterpiece both film & Dear Patricia Routledge as always perfectly executed ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

😢 HHHMM 🤔 I've never HEARD of Barbara Pyms😮. Thus one is not to SURE what to Penn 😳. It's my first encounter with Patricia Rutledge, playing a Gentle. I would not say THIS is a Movie. Maybe a short story 😮. A dramatic Drama/documentary 😧- Comic 😂. One was amused, BY the Bishop, who, without doubt, had delusions of grandeur 😂😂😂. He was completely UNTENABLE with his behaviour 🍋💯, WHERE it seemed he felt he could INSULT, that poor woman, and expected marriage 😱🤣🤣🤣. Patricia Rutledge, did however professionally portrait her part superbly 💓🌺

Such a wonderful portrayal of Barbara Pym. I see I have watched it on the anniversary of her death. I am inspired to read more of her novels and to renew my membership of the BP society.

Excellent

I do love DAME Patricia. She wunn of my only living heroins.

22:55 What are those cubicles?

Ian McNeice!🎉 As I live and breathe. 😮

The background music is annoying and unnecessary

Never had I, in my 82 years as an American girl and now, old woman, had I heard of Barbara Pym. Better late than never! Like so many of the comments by the readers below, I too enjoy the ordinary doings and conversations of day to day living; between the big and little crises of life, the ordinary days. If Ms. Pym wrote the words (minutes 45 and shortly following; the man who gets lightly drunk every night and thinks of death at 4 am, and erroneously believes there is nothingness after ones' body dies), sadly, she is mistaken. I say, gently and with compassion, that she is wrong because she knows neither the Scriptures nor the power of God. Every person has an eternal soul. Oh, if I continue, I will sound like I am preaching; I simply say, do not believe in this nothingness after death. Instead open the Gospel of John in the Protestant Bible and read the writings of one of the greatest authors ever put into print. Then, consider anew ones after death destiny. After all, Ms. Pym is a fallible human author, as we all are, perhaps that's why she is so adored.

so sad

Just as it is today, predominantly women in church. WHERE ARE GODLY MEN?

Splendid and moving short movie weaved with scenes from Pym´s novels.

Bookmark.S09E08. After a 14 year dry spell, novelist, Barbara Pym (Patricia Routledge) is nominated for a Booker Award in 1977 for her novel "Quartet in Autumn". This short biography follows her the day of the prize presentation, as she observes people and reminisces about life and love. The prize is awarded to someone else that year, and in 1980 Pym dies of cancer.

That was incredibly boring

What a beautiful voice ❤

Patricia is so wonderful. I believe she is now 94 or 95 years old. I dread the day we shall learn she has passed. I have enjoyed all of her work so much. She was so poignant in this film.

Read her years ago am a fan of Brit Lit . I married my university professor :-) and my immediate family has three clergymen in so found her character choices interesting. Seems sad that her faith gave her so little consolation.

I'm more familiar with Patricia Rutledge in her later years, so it was enjoyable watching her in an earlier piece. Solid performance.

Was that Jilly Cooper at the jumble sale? This is a study in the most superb acting. It’s so good you don’t even feel like they are acting at all, that your just sitting alongside people living their lives. I love everything that Patricia does.

Keeping up appearances 👏🏼👏🏼

Please, does anyone know the piano music composer/artist? It's not in the film credits.

Eita cigarrilha mais vilain...no wonder 80%of the world population die of cancer😢