Gaudy Night (Michael Simpson) - Episode One
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- The third Book with Harriet Vane and Lord Peter Wimsey - this time set in Oxford: Detective novelist Harriet Vane has lived down the notoriety of having been accused of murdering her lover. She accepts an invitation to revisit her alma mater, a ladies' college in Oxford. Shortly after she renews her acquaintance with her former fellow-students and tutors, someone starts playing distasteful pranks around the college. The Warden and the other dons ask Harriet to investigate. Wimsey, her suitor, joins the investigation when the practical jokes become more dangerous. Finally, there is the long-standing romantic tension between Wimsey and Harriet to resolve.
A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery - three miniseries produced by the BBC in 1987 and based on the best-selling novels: Strong Poison, Have His Carcase and Gaudy Night.
Director: Michael Simpson
Lord Peter Wimsey is a fictional character in a series of detective novels and short stories by Dorothy Leigh Sayers. A bon vivant who solves mysteries for his own amusement, Wimsey is an archetype for the British gentleman detective.
Here I am watching a series from 1987 on TH-cam because my choices on today’s TV/streaming services are a steady and unpleasant diet of never ending game shows, ‘reality’ TV and warmed over, poorly acted action flicks whose claim to redemption is that ‘stuff blows up.’ Why can’t we have this sort of thing as the norm? We’re not so stupid that we can’t follow a coherent storyline.
Throw your television out, best thing I ever did!
Agree!!
This brought to us by socialized tv :)
not had my tv on for at least 2 years
Don’t forget the stream of clothes taken off from the front door to the kitchen table.
Fantastic series.how wonderfully written and acted.no Botox.no fillers and no plastic surgery.normals size lips.it’s so refreshing
Im 83 and I Love Dorothy Sayers!❤️
Well done.
I love her too
Just got the last of my men out the door for work...2 sons and husband. Im brewing chai rooibos tea and celebrating ME TIME!! Thanks for Harriet Vane🌻🌻🌻
Well done 👏👏👍
Granny Earth;
I am a retired Northern Irish Grandmother , full of nostalgic memories of The British Isles
Now a Canadian Citizen of 40yrs . I am writing to you for your words so resonate
To memories of my younger days as a wife and mother , I just love your delight
To be making time for yourself an indulging in great viewing 👏 yes Thanks for Harriet Vane
Mary Canada 🍁
@@marysmyth8288 Im sipping strong coffee and it is raining today! (In Arizona That’s a celebration of the desert) Mary, i watch alot of mysteries from all over the world... I’ve only traveled that way. Shetland, Vera, Blue Murder. House to meself again👍🏼I’m a grandmother of two as my daughter is 28 and my sons are moving out soon. A quiet house to myself used to be a dream raising babies, toddlers ect. But Now, the quiet is different.
This series shows people how they actually look, not just beauties from a catalogue. Bravo!
I love this series as much as I love the locations and sets. I can almost smell the atmosphere. My Grammar school was 150 yrs old when I attended back in the 60s and I have always appreciated that learning environment.
Oxford looks like a time capsule. Lovely.
My daughter says it has changed now. My grandchildren are being failed to get places at Ox and Cam as the colleges are seeking a different undergraduate mix, from all countries and all make - ups
The love story between Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane is one of the most fascinating ones in literary history, and the two actors are doing a great job. In my opinion it's in the same league as Pride and Prejudice.
What an interesting thought - it's absolutely true that the suitor has to overcome the prejudiced view of the woman he loves.
@@alidabaxter5849not prejudice, but feelings of inferiority. They met under inauspicious circumstances, she felt unser an obligation to him, he pressured her and it took long for them to work it out.
@@juttapopp1869 You are absolutely right of course, but I do feel that Harriet was exceptionally prickly for a long time because she had been so hurt previously by the lover of whose murder she'd been accused. In a way she took all her previous hurt out on Peter, which was awful for him because he cared about her so deeply. I think Dorothy Sayers may have been writing about her own suffering (she'd had an illegitimate child). But I still think the comparison with "Pride and Prejudice" is interesting, if not totally correct, not least because Peter comes from a noble family whilst Harriet does not.
Peter pletherbridge and Harriet _____ are perfect in their roles. Wish there was more of this twosome except for the 3 different stories.
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I love Harriet Walter.
Especially in Sense and Sensibility. "Viper in my bosom!" LOL
They don't make shows like this anymore. I so enjoy this series.
Can we just appreciate going down to the local chippy in black tie?
Amazing, isn't it!
😂 can barely get people out of their PJs now.
Of course they were dressed for opera which followed dinner.
"Slightly flawed: the sign of a true gentleman."
I'm going to have to remember that one.
Me too!!!!!!!😀✌
I have taken that to heart as a matter of principle !
A truly well stated statement
RIP Richard Morant.
so true. not trying to hard to be perfect as a vulgarian would do. doesn't need to.
Loved this series years ago, so happy to see it again. Harriet Walters is such a wonderful actress, surrounded by other great actresses. Love this, thank you for posting.
I love Harriet Walter in this role - she suits this character down to the ground.
Yes, I like her too, but why did they give her that awful haircut? Entirely wrong for her face.
@@lou-nc4rc Because that was the style then ,also they're keeping through with the character of that era 1928 to 1938
Did she play George Elliot??
@@lou-nc4rc Probably because that was the fashion for ladies back in the 1930s? I quite like it. Harriet Walter has a rather aquiline face and it suits her.
@@lou-nc4rc But right for the period.
Made in the day when dialogue and wit mattered.
I also recommend reading the book - a lot of the witty dialogue got cut in this adaptation (although I love this BBC series and Edward P/Harriet).
Thanks for uploading this tv series here.
@@transuranicelements1335 And a chunk of the plot got cut.
Nuance.
I say yeh to that.
Right??? I was glued to every part of this, and there's minimal action throughout. sigh........lovely.............
This is my all time favorite version of these characters.
BOOKWYRM there is an brilliant Audiobook on Audible.......brilliantly done, I have listened to it over and over.
Sorry just read your question properly....... it's Ian Carmichael and Anne Bell not Edward and Harriet but very worthwhile.
She really is Harriet, just as I always imagined her!
Bookwyrm I agree w you altho' I must say I like Ann Bell's audio interpretation w Ian Carmichael in Strong Poison. When I listen to her I see in my mind's eye Harriet Walter.
@@Warrendoesir can please tell the name the audible version...
Oh, that quickstep at 30.00, how I’d love to twirl around a dance floor like that again!
And Petherbridge is a wonderful dancer!
Love these two actors....they work very well together. Completely believable & endearing! Bunter is, also, Wonderful!
jeanne hageman hi
The actor playing Bunter here (Richard Morant) was also good in the Poldark original tv series (1975 ff).
So wish that they had made Busman's Holiday.
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I think he looks too young to have been in the War with Peter
You need to promote this as a Peter Whimsey and Harriet Vane adaptation of the books. You would get more listeners. Everybody loves Lord Peter ❤
Perfection reminds me of all the things I miss in today's world. Silly thing but it is so refreshing to see them drinking from a full cup of tea, I think the silly drop they usually use in Tv series and movies is ridiculous.
I love all these earlier adaptations of crime novels. The new ones tend to overdramatize for tension and lack charm.
You forgot ACTION on that list ...
Earlier? The earlier adaptation of Wimsey was with Ian Carmichael who pressed for these novels to be adapted for TV and played Peter.
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@@glen7318 I remember Ian Carmichael as Peter Wimsey and also as Bertie Wooster. I liked Ian, but he simply wasn't right in either role, especially as Bertie. Far too old. In the books Bertie is only supposed to be about 25 or 26, if not younger.
@@mfjdv2020 I dont think that Berties age is ever given... and Wodehouse wrote about him for years and years up to the end of his own life but set the stories in the 1920s or 30s
Dorothy Sayers was one of the first women to graduate from Oxford (1915).
Edward Petherbridge was the perfect Peter Wimsey. This adaptation is by far the best.
I just love these on a lazy afternoon with tea of course!
Love the rich characters.. to serve a wonderful Dorothy L. Sayers mystery plot . Very nice use of appropriate / believable period effects , in this production .. based on a fantastic Book. I have watched this film about five times now over the years since 2013 ... always enjoyable.Thanks for the upload / channel.
I came to Dorothy Sayers frankly through this book and found the dramatisation very well done indeed. I instantly liked Harriet Vane, given the social constraints of her time, and Peter Whimsey, an alarmingly attractive man of good birth going around like Sherlock Holmes doing improbable things believable indeed in this brilliant production.
I like Harriet but I do prefer the other actors in nine tailors, etc.
One of my very favorite books, and such an excellent adaptation. Thank you for sharing this!
The Brits do the best dramas, and comedies. Bravo
I am amazed at so many familiar faces, great actresses who have constantly proved their worth. Great show, thanks for uploading.
WOW!
I LOVE THESE DETECTIVES they work so well together !
I do not think the USA has actors capable of displaying such class. I hope the UK does. Love the series.
This doesn’t make any sense. You’re watching the series so obviously the UK does, but Americans are perfectly capable of playing hack mystery characters I believe. I like Sayers but let’s not mistake her work for serious literature.
I'm only ten and I love Dorothy L. Sayers
That's great to hear!
Glad you appreciate, I hope you read them too. It will take you far.
The series is great but the book is even better. It's packed with a lot more plot elements. And if you like it you might want to check out Laurie R. King's Mary Russell books.
@@Muttonchop_USA thanks for the book idea
I love Edward Petherbridge.
Very glad I found this on TH-cam! What a surprise to see Charmian May (Miss Hillyard) better known to me as Mrs Councilor Nugent, from "Keeping Up Appearances"
I love Harriet Vane, but it took a man of Peter Wimsey's skill and persistence to win her.
Thank you for updating these. Really enjoying them. Just a bugbear that they say Peter has been away in the beginning when actually it's Harriet who went off to Europe for around a year to try and loosen the attachment between her and Peter. Weird to change something that is so characteristic of the dynamics between them.
What a pity they could not obtain the licence to produce Busman's Honeymoon; that would have been a perfect ending to this particular series
It would, wouldn't it! Why weren't they granted the licence? Seems a bit silly to let them film all the Peter&Harriet episodes except for that last one.
I agree, I have it on audio, books, but would liked to have seen it .
The busman's honeymoon was done with Petherbridge, but the part of Harriet was played by his real life wife (who is a theater actress), and done as a play only.
Ms. L. Churchill
Busman's was a film, in the 1940s or 50s.
@@glen7318 ttps://th-cam.com/video/lcTJwnzMgpY/w-d-xo.html starring Robert Montgomery who was a big studio star, then became a producer ... the father of Eliz Montgomery (Bewitched) ...
God I love this series, and to find it on YT is great!
Cold Comfort Farm," I saw something nasty on the wood shed". 🤣🤣 Seasoned Actors packed!💕💕💕🌴
Sheila Burrell was also the nasty duplicitous Lady Rochford in The Six Wives of Henry VIII. She was terrific.
LOVE these actors. Bunter and Lord Peter epitomise the Sayers' book characters. Harriet Vane also.
i am so very glad you put these on youtube. ever since i discovered these 3 series (strong poison, have his carcase, and gaudy) i have watched them at least once a yr 😀. this is so much better than watching that trash starring ian carmichael! also, it's such a crying shame that 'busman's honeyoon' could never have been made starring this duo. it's my understanding that, since the rights to that book were sold to hollywood, the bbc couldn't make its version. robert montgomery, i believe, starred in 'haunted honeymoon', hollywood's renamed version of that book. i don't recall who the woman was. it was, unfortunately, made as a second rate comedy rather than the first rate mystery drama and romance that it could have been written by these writers and starred in by these wonderful actors.
Exactly.
I like the Ian Carmichael ones.
I actually like Carmichael as an actor and he was an interesting man but never got through 5 minutes of his versions. His audiobook reading of one of the books is my favourite though
I love gaudy night both film and book.
These women play the female academics of the era to perfection. To teach at the first Oxford college for women, demanded great scholarly distinction. Glamour would have been completely superfluous to these academic pioneers.
Would it? Really? Or do you only THINK it would ... because that is the accepted way to think in todays way of feminist thinking?
Exactly as described, I can assure you, Muck. Some of these pioneers' students were my teachers at Cambridge and they didn't look much different. Thank goodness there was a time when the BBC went for the authentic rather than the glamorized version.
Muck006
Well , there are limits to authentic. Yes, I think the 1930s womens'-college dons were probably much are shown, with some artistic licence - and I am old enough and Oxford enough to have known a number of them personally and professionally - but the womens' colleges were not located in the older medieval college buildings in central Oxford as shown here. Somerville (Sayers' own alma mater), St Anne's, LMH, St Hugh's, were all in less - ahem - photogenic locations from the TV point of view. So in this alternative universe the upstart female intellectuals invaded and ousted the members of New College or Merton and took over the asylum. Good on them, in that alternative universe.
As far as I'm concerned they don't look any different to any other average human being of the same age. The only difference being their obvious intelligence.
Thank you so much for posting this series.
This is the best story! Both book or film.
Harriet Walter and Edward Petherbridge were perfectly cast and this television series was the best version of Dorothy Sayers' work I've ever seen. It was only a great pity that Gaudy Night was crammed into so few episodes when it needed more.
Harriet Walters plays the mother of 3 of the adult children in Succession and is scathingly brilliant!
Thank you for the upload. It is a pleasure to watch this series yuet again!
Read 11 of Sayers' mysteries years ago, whatever I could find, wonderfully well written. I introduced my daughter to Dorothy Sayers by way of the DVD's I had never seen. There were 4 Harriet Vane books and after seeing the first 3 on DVD, we were sorry to find out that the 4th, Busman's Honeymoon, was never made. And never will be - much too politely worded for today's readers.
A very much younger 'Mrs. Counselor Nugent' of Keeping up Appearances as Miss. Hilliard, I think. Great series. I even enjoyed the earlier series, though not as much as I do this one. Great cast and performances. Thanks for the uploads, mate.
Counselor Mrs Nugent is the correct word order ;)
edward petherbridge and Harriet Walter are perfect together. Is there more series of Lord Peter Whimsey played by these actors?
It's rather late to reply. But I hope you discovered the YT search box. (Like Google, it is your friend.) Or clicked to see the other vids posted by +clandestienfilm . Because, yes, there are more. And they are here. I've watched the first and second books. This was the third. There are more. Enjoy.
Bruce Baker.... no only three Sayers ( Peter Wimsey ) stories were made with this cast. "Strong Poison" , "Have His Carcase" and this one " Gaudy Night". There are TV versions of some other Lord Peter Wimsey Stories but with a different cast, made sin 1970s and with Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter....they are nowhere near as good IMHO. BUT the Audiobook versions with Carmichael are EXCELLENT, much better than the TV versions.
The producers wanted to finish the Peter/Harriet story with Busman's Holiday, but couldn't acquire the copyright. Pity, isn't it.
@@soniavadnjal7553 the copyright had been sold to a hollywood company (don't recall which one), was renamed into 'haunted honeymoon', and was made into a truly god-awful comedy that had very little relation to the book at all. when i think of the way it was actually produced as compared to the way it could have been done instead with these actors, it's a crying shame to think of the way it was done.
Makes a wonderful lord peter . Ty so much for posting it.
Thank you for sharing these wonderful videos.
Thank you Soo much for the three part gaudy night! It was really enjoyable!
"That would be a caper of quite a different sort" :)
Edward p. Is born to play lord Peter. No body can do better than him.
Both are too sissy .
@@jimclark6256 So, what war have you survived?
Ian Carmichael was no slouch, either.
Carmichael AND Petherbridge are both excellent.
To us from a former colony, he typifies the typical stiff upper lip of the British upper class. Perhaps with a touch of arrogance.
"That would be a caper of quite a different sort"--delicious!
As soon as they lift lockdown I'm hitting my favourite bookstore
❤📚❤ I L💜VE finding "new" authors.
Very nice episode mainly about Henrietta Vane. Lord Peter’s observations on the challenges of a cloistered community, male or female, is interesting and true. Most of these ladies at the College are hiding behind their verbosity and intelligence; they quote old classical writers but have trouble talking about the reality around them? They really need Lord Peter Wimsey to come back and run the investigation. I hate to say it but he is definitely loads more gifted in figuring out crimes! Just to not sound sexist, I will state that Miss Marple could also figure out the evil perpetrators! Thanks for posting.
Harriet not Henrietta And they both have to accept that they are intellectual equals,
Just what I need, a decayed old college to move into with hundreds of books and all the time in the world to read them and write about what I discover. Old comfy couches, slightly tattered draperies, velvet and silk. Slightly dingy paintwork, the smell of old books, mingled with fresh flowers, calm warm gentle manners, sunny skies and lots of tea and chocolate biscuits. High tea, nice meatless dinners and a soft cozy bed to sleep in.
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Exactly...same here😊
I wonder whether this Sayers novel influenced Colin Dexter. A tremendous treat, this posting: many thanks!
Excellent! Many thanks for sharing.
I was pleased to watch this series again. The excellent acting and presentation make series like this one absolute classics, with a timeless quality.
9:05 -- "Dean Martin" (Carol MacReady) was "Milly Croft", the Australian who forged a will in Poirot's "Peril at End House" (1990).
11:55 -- "Miss Lydgate" (Mereline Randall) was "Mrs. Crump", the cook in Miss Marple's "A Pocket Full of Rye" (1985).
Kevin Byrne and the actress playing Miss Devine was the vicars wife Maud in the Miss Marple episode The Moving Finger
Wow!! Good eye!!!
Carol MacReady was also the character Daisy Quantock in the Mapp and Lucia series
@@renzo6490 -- Yes, it's like a repertory company: you see the same actors and actresses in different roles.
Been trying to work out where i recognised her from
I can't believe I found this. I use tio watch these years ago but forgot the name. Thanks for sharing
Thanks for this series.❤😊😊
I started the series here. If you are like me, please go find Strong Poison. That's the 1st arc in the series. It'll give all the background that's missing from here. There are lots of warm feelings to come with this series, but context is needed to appreciate them properly.
I am loving this series. Too bad it ends with this arc 😢
Excellent, many thanks for posting.
Great series!
I’m a huge Fan of Harriet Walter, and this role was perfect for her!
There’s something about HW, Jennifer Grey (Dirty Dancing) and Mary Stewart Masterson (Fried Green Tomatoes) that feels similar to Me - and I always love seeing each of their performances.
Thank-You for this!!!
Harriet had two problems when it came to accepting Wimsey's proposals of marriage. 1 The career/marriage balance. This was at a time when it was difficult or impossible for women to have both. 2 the big one. Gratititude. She had been tried for the murder of her lover and had only escaped hanging with Wimsey's intervention. In this novel he deliberately leaves her to risk her life in order to take that debt away.
But why do you think Harriet found it so difficult to feel gratitude to Peter? It isn't something that would bother me. I'd be far too thankful to have been acquitted for a murder I didn't do.
@@mfjdv2020 From her thoughts in the novels spanning the five years between her trial and her eventual acceptance of him she seems to have felt that if she married him the debt would be so huge that she would never be able to repay it and it would always be hanging over her.
yes and that Peter wouldn't "give her a fair deal". She's right, it wouldn't have been a good start to a marriage with her having to feel grateful to him all the time. It only changes when Peter allows her to risk her life detecting
It’s not that she didn’t feel gratitude. Of course she did. But neither of them wanted her gratitude to be the foundation of their relationship. It would be too akin to his having ‘bought’ her affection, wouldn’t it? After her trial she actually does offer to live with him without marrying him, feeling that she owes him something, and Wimsey is naturally repulsed by the idea. Subsequently, whenever she mentions the debt she owes him he is irritated and hurt by the allusion. Gratitude is something she has to get past if she is to discover her true feelings for him and trust in her feelings for her. That’s why she rejects her own gratitude, or tries to. Of course this creates a lot of complicated friction and tension-but they could never have come together otherwise.
@@mfjdv2020 you cant marry out of gratitude and she wanted to be sure she loved him for other reasons. Peter really should have kept his mouth shut though, not so smooth for once.
I lived in Oxford....happy memories!
Wow, everyone is in this episode.
Love the architecture!!!!!❤
I much prefer reading the book. But the Brits have a way of besting any American series. The original House of Cards with Ian Richardson is so superior to the US version.
I agree!
I kept hoping for the Warden to say, "I saw something nasty in the woodshed...", but then realized this production predated Cold Comfort Farm!
It doesn't predate the book 'Cold Comfort Farm' though, and this book was already televised in the 1960s, if I've got the decade right. I do remember watching it (in black and white!)
Great catch!
@@mfjdv2020 can't imagine Cold Comfort on film, too wonderful as a bòok.
@@ritawing1064 There was a film version. In the 70s, I think.
these british shows were the best both Whimseys Carmichael and Petherbriidge
Ah, the fish and chips I've been lookin' for, for ages. Kippers?
Remember this so well
I preferred this Lord Peter series!
Tell me or tango. You know I can't tango! Then you have no choice, do you?
I love it! Spice, zip, and spark.
Harriet Walter is also in an episode of Inspector Morse and as The Headmistress of a girls school in a Hercule Poirot... i like her.
I think the Poirot book you're talking about is "The Cat Among Pigeons" I've read it it's really good.
Groggie1 Yes! That’s a good one. The rubies in the racket!!
Not to mention Killing Eve
@@grannyearth5496 Good grief! Does Harriet Walter play Miss Bulstrode in Agatha Christie's Cat among the Pigeons? I shall have to watch it again! It's one of my favourite Poirot mysteries and I also enjoyed the film version with David Suchet and, apparently, Harriet Walter. Now you mention it, I thought she looked familiar.
She also played Eleanor's (Emma Thompson) sister in law in Sense and Sensibility.
”Tell me or tango!” Like that.
I think the problem between Peter and Harriet is that they both expect too much of each other. Peter shouldn't be so persistent in expecting Harriet to have certain feelings for him, and Harriet shouldn't expect Peter to dance attendance without having these same feelings for her. If only they could both just relax and enjoy each other's company without this heavily-charged atmosphere of expectation on both sides. However all's well that ends well; I suppose they just had to get there under their own steam.
She had to realize (from the final revelation of the plot) what it is to be a woman and not bury herself in the world of "academe" and end up as a dried up shell of a person. In the days this book was set, a woman could not be in research if she was married; she had to renounce marriage and then would be accepted in the intellectual world of Oxford. The "case" and "the woman" in the case brought her to her senses and she realized that she was not able to
renounce love after all. Dorothy L. Sayers knew this world very well. She belonged to it and had an illegitimate son whom she passed off as a nephew (or brother? am not sure) in order to claim her place in the halls of learning.
@@gisawslonim9716 Dried up shell of a person if she didn't marry? WOW. That's the kind of thing the most backward sort of male would say in the past, and some still say even now.
@@gisawslonim9716 Not sure about where you're getting your information, but a key plot point in the book is that the two fellows who are married never get any poisoned pen letters. Presumably if they are senior fellows at Oxford, they would be doing research.
@@gisawslonim9716 She had nothing to do with "halls of learning".. She was a writer and had long since left Oxford when she had her son
@@glen7318 But she did study at Oxford, so she was drawing on her own experience when she wrote this book.
very enjoyable, thank you 4 sharing
(Speaking in my Clive Clavin voice) It's not widely known, but Edward Petherbridge was the original Detective Murdoch in "Murdoch Mysteries", before Yannick Bisson took on the role.
He returned in a guest role in a later episode.
Like the more realistic feel than some other Lord Winsey versions, even down to the "Lord" reading briefs from his parliamentary box.
I adore Edward Petherbridge.
This is wonderful! Thank you so much for the upload. I’ve read Sayers’ full length mysteries, but I’ve not come across this story. Was it a short story, or was it written as a dramatic production originally? I’d appreciate knowing please. Either way the attention to period detail is excellent. Usually there’s at least some inaccuracies but not here. I’m seriously impressed with everything from the script, to the costuming and then the acting is excellent too.
Thanks again, I’ve subscribed n look forward to hours of binge watching these terrific productions
A rather lengthy book. Quite a bit had to be cut to make it fit the series slot. I wish they had done the last book, after their marriage.
Seems like you've missed probably her best "full length mystery", or at least, what many consider her best book. This is the third in her series with Lord Peter and Harriet Vane (Strong Poison, Have His Carcase, Gaudy Night, and Busman's Honeymoon), and one of her last. For a complete list of her books, you can look here: www.sayers.org.uk/bibliography
Love the English murder mysteries !!!
You,child have very good taste and so early in your life. Well done.
I absolutely adore it! Thank you!
Didn’t they whack a large part out of the middle? How about the beautiful chess set that got beat up in Harriets room. Lord Peter had to measure heels to decide who could have done it.
They had to cut out a lot to fit the constraints of a TV series. The whole part involving the nephew was so much fun.
THe chess set being destroyed happens later in the book.
My word! How good is this? The cast, the acting, the setting. Harriet Walter is superb.
But... I don't know how anyone could stand Lord Peter Wimsey!
I think Ian Carmichael on both TV and radio was more to my taste. He felt less remote to me. Maria Aitken (an underestimated actress I feel) also, briefly, made an excellent Harriet Vane. They did rather tend chop and change on the radio generally.
Best Wimsey book.
One of my favorites, but I also enjoyed Busman’s Honeymoon, when they got married and went to Harriet’s home village.
FredFuchs77 Have His Carcass and Murder Must Advertise are equally as good. Ripping Good Yarns👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
I was a little more taken with the case where he saves his brother from the gallows.
The weird thing is that around 11 minutes in you hear women discussing the issues and debating. Oddly, I wonder now that if anyone says anything against the groupthink, they would be sacked.
@Amber Fox I'm sorry to hear that, Amber. Why were you not eligible for a student grant the first time around? That's what student grants are for, to enable people to study at university who otherwise couldn't afford it. Like me. I got a student grant because my family couldn't afford to pay for me at university. That was in the early 1970s. But couldn't you take your degree now through the Open University? You might be eligible for a grant now, too.
Nobody seems to mention ( though some of them must know) that Dorothy L.Sayers wrote her novels between 1923-1937 , so of course the TV series very faithfully use the language/ text if the novels. So if you don't feel like watching pretty faithful reproductions of the life and language of that particular period in modern history these won't be for you....go watch "Chicago PD". "CSI" NCIS" or some other modern American crime show.....I enjoy some of those myself… But this is older and Fynan!
Warrendoe Must I watch those particular US series? Don't like 'em one bit. Nosirree! I prefer the good quality comedies to their crime shows.
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I so agree. I'm an American and the shows you mentioned ... which in the beginning seasons were compelling ...
are way beyond their sell by date & actually terrible.
In fact most are regurgitating old stories. It's time for a new genre.
No more American crime dramas and no more Kardashians.
We all need a new distraction.
Those who criticise the actors for their performance need to bear in mind that they are depicting society of the 1920s which was much different from the 2020s, a hundred years later, I have the misfortune to have been raised in the prewar 1930s and am well aware of life in those days
"I saw something nasty in the woodshed...."
I haven't seen this film yet (I keep trying, but the squirrels here keep demanding their walnuts), so I'm not sure if your comment is about this or from Cold Comfort Farm, which I love! Anyhow, Happy Holidays 🙂
Read the book years ago, I love Dorothy Sayers
Oh! There's the grandmother from Cold Comfort Farm!
Lol…”Something nasty in the woodshed”….she was fantastic!!!!
Brilliant!
I love the clothes