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Chris Phillips
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Cgp100
Post Number: 1471
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, October 02, 2005 - 5:52 am: | 
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Has anyone else in the UK been watching these? I think they've been quite good, though with too much dramatisation and too little analysis. I was expecting this series to have four programmes, but after the first two it seems to have vanished into the ether.
Did anyone else notice that he slily worked in a rousing chorus of "Kaphoozelum" in the village pub in Peasenhall? I assume it was a Ripper reference, but maybe I'm reading too much into it.
Chris Phillips
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MTR
Police Constable
Username: Rigby
Post Number: 2
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, October 02, 2005 - 8:03 am: |
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Watched one, half-watched the next. Didn't much care for his 'interjections' into the live action. If it wasn't for the OTT way the production team were trying to 'Hitchcockise' him and my specific prejudice against the posh and the privileged I might have even set the Sky+ thing to record the rest of these but, er, I didn't.
I believe the five programmes in the series are listed here.
Mike. |
Chris Phillips
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Cgp100
Post Number: 1472
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, October 02, 2005 - 8:19 am: |
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Mike
I believe the five programmes in the series are listed here.
Thanks. The first of those five, on Charles Bravo, was shown last year (as a "pilot", I assume). I presumed the remaining four were to be shown as a series this year. But who knows?
Chris Phillips
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MTR
Police Constable
Username: Rigby
Post Number: 3
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, October 02, 2005 - 8:57 am: |
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Have you checked the Radio Times site and/or Digiguide for repeat/further listings ?
Mike.
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John Ruffels
Inspector
Username: Johnr
Post Number: 468
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, October 02, 2005 - 6:16 pm: |
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Chris,
I have not seen this series out here in the wilds of exotic Australia.
Your mention of the sly insertion of rousing choruses of "Kaphoozalum" (shades of JK Stephen?) in the Peasenhall pub, makes me wonder if Paul Begg or Keith Skinner provided any input into the research background?
If memory serves, I vaguely recall these two gents working on that case some years back.
Sorry. Just checked the front of my 1991 paperback "A TO Z"; it was Martin Fido and Keith Skinner. A book."The Peasenhall Murder". |
MTR
Police Constable
Username: Rigby
Post Number: 4
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Monday, October 03, 2005 - 2:58 am: |
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That case was previously covered on a TV prog called "Unsolved Murder, presented by Anthony Scrivener" (2002). Link here and Guardian review here.
Mike. |
Chris Phillips
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Cgp100
Post Number: 1477
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Monday, October 03, 2005 - 3:34 am: |
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John
Your mention of the sly insertion of rousing choruses of "Kaphoozalum" (shades of JK Stephen?) in the Peasenhall pub, makes me wonder if Paul Begg [Marton Fido] or Keith Skinner provided any input into the research background?
I couldn't see any mention of Fido or Skinner in the closing credits, though Jonathan Goodman was acknowledged for the following episode, on the Storrs murder.
Chris Phillips
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