To Walk Invisible

[goodgoalie]

Brava, Sally Wainwright! Beautifully written and directed, by far the best thing on TV for ages.

[pastafreak]

I watched it on Iplayer last night,and must admit I didn't really enjoy it. It jarred in places...anachronistic language, conversations that seemed totally wrong for the time and place, poor sound quality. I found I was only half listening. On the plus side,it was visually beautiful and suitably dark and brooding...that didn't bother me.

[tonyav]

I watched it earlier today, I enjoyed it.

[Peter Pedant]

The set was so good
and so like Haworth - not difficult
that I wondered if they had used the house ....

The Revd Bronte refused later to talk about 'his famous daughers'
and Arthur Bell Nichols went back to Ireland left the church, farmed and his widow sold up the Bronte stuff

[jourdain2]

We lived practically next door to Haworth (schoolfriends lived there). It is glorious up there.

Counter-productive in that younger daughter, in her interview to read English at Cambridge, forthrightly answered a question about the Brontes by saying she was 'sick to the back teeth of them'. Snag was that the questioner was the leading Bronte scholar of the time. :( No offer - which she should otherwise have had. It saved cash that she went to York!

She's still outspoken........ usually to me.

[Peter Pedant]

O 1968 I got in an interview - silicone rubber in liquid nitrogen which he ( DHayden quite famous actually ) shattered with pliers
and asked me - now why does that happen ?

why do substances get brittle when you cool them ? answers please .....

The toots get a feel of whether they want to teach you
and also nowadays - we dont take the brightest but the pupils we think will benefit most from the courses we offer ....

I was surprised the OU don / author allowed the London scene
" we are both Miss Bronte "
It should be "I am Miss Bronte and this is miss Anne Bronte"

I mean it was a time of contrasts and denials
In 1855 when the details of her skool were published by Mrs Gaskell - the teachers still living queued up to protest that it wasnt like that at all

Old Man Bronte refused to allow his famous daughter' to marry Nicholls thinking she could do much better - so they saw each other secreetly

Historians dont really understand chancery law in 1855
a covenant to disinherit a widow would not have been enforced at equity since it went against the god blessed institution of marriage

Lydia Robinson had refused to marry Branwell ( I mean who wouldnt ?)
and he made the story up - she then sent him small gifts of money
oo-er ! no wonder he got mixed up !

[jourdain2]

Happy 2017 PP :) x