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pastafreak | 12:42 Tue 07th Sep 2021 | Film, Media & TV
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It's back! Tonight at 9 on BBC 2. One of my favourite programs...only discovered by accident that it's back.

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We enjoy it, too.
Yes, looking forward to it.
Ta pasta, it's always an enjoyable watch :-)
One of my favourites too -and I to only found out by accident this morning watching TV at Breakfast. I love this programme, so interesting to see how the house/home develops over the years.
are they repeats or the real thing?
I thought his Bristol house was too slave-oriented. - that is more to bristol than 200 y slavery

History is of course re-written every generation ( some French thinker)
Yeah bear in mind that if History is being rewritten every generation then there must be different ( but equally valid ) interpretations

I have seen professional archeologists at work - -" I have found X and so it must be Y ' - and wondered.....
and shock of the week is here:
https://brentnongbri.com/2021/03/30/the-retraction-of-dirk-obbinks-sappho-chapter-and-the-question-of-authenticity/

for slow or reluctant readers - the article is about sitting in a room and discussing a papyrus written 2000 y ago - grammar and writing and of course - what does it mean?

and finding out it was written by the presenter - - the previous week.

At least with the Bolton Goddess
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-49043368
the British Museum expert identified the wrong hieroglyphic. Hilariously done as a drama, Antiques Fraud Show

this is the first time he hasn't used a house in a port town (earlier ones were Liverpool, Newcastle and Bristol) so I suppose less chance of encountering slavery.
"discovered by accident"?
Doesn't anyone get a listings magazine anymore?
Also, another highly recommended series starts on Friday @9.30pm on BBC2..."The North Water" with Colin Farrell and Jack O'Connell....nautical thriller set in 1859 in the Arctic.
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Well, I don't and haven't for almost 2 years. I was browsing the freeview listings when I came across it...by accident.
you do risk missing good things, pasta. Have a wee flip through the Radio Times next time you're in the supermarket.
I’m looking forward to The North Water, too, also Endeavour, Help, and All Creatures Great and Small next week.
what did people think?
foo - historians dont add, and their knowledge of Law can be said to be bad.

The first occupants were childless - which allowed Brice to concentrate on his law activities. No mention of lack of appeal court ( 1926 I think) so the only way was to intervene with the Home Secretary. Completely missed an elected politician was acting in a judicial capacity -
The pet lawyer said: if you give strychnine regularly then you intend to kill someone ( and I thought game over )

No 2 had buried her husband after a year ( he was 31 - cholera) and married a rich draper - who failed because he didnt change with the Times. 2 servants only which surprised me. That one ( who later went bankrupt) has got thro moolah like no body's business (£250 travel jesus in victorian times ) in the final year of trading. - a clear fraud on creditors, missed by Olusoga, no slavery. We had the married womens doo dah act - this comes up in the Forsyte Saga ( 1967 ) - and we had her will - since now she cd devise property. A bit crude for a quick reader - the testatrix has given away stuff before she revokes the previous wills.

Then we had the Nicholson family - would the 20 y old make it after his father's sudden death. Yup rich became very rich. Did Olly understand engineering ? the idea of victorian over-engineering was alien to him ( er certainly not enslaved by the idea) .

so overall - you pick your historian and listen
The Bristol one was fascinating.
If you found it covered slavery too much PP, then it says a lot about you.
I enjoyed the first part of the history from 5 Grosvenor Mount.

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