Non food related TV

[aero280]

I found the sound quality on the early Strike episodes “fuzzy”, and it drove me to get hearing aids, which made things intelligible. This latest series is fuzzy again, so I must go and get them adjusted, I think.

[Stokey Sue]

I’ve not tried reading any, I don’t read much now, and Strike is now so definitely Tom Burke to me now I think I’ll stick with tv - the reviewer said the book had so many pages she pitied the scriptwriter adapting it.

[PatsyMFagan]

I’m still enjoying Matlock on Sky Witness. Kathy Bates is great.

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Me too.. found it on your recommendation PP and really enjoying it

[slimpersoninside]

I’m still enjoying Matlock on Sky Witness. Kathy Bates is great.

Agreed! We watch it as afternoon viewing.

[herbidacious]

Having watched all of Three Pines, I think the terms subdued and melancholic would be more appropriate. A pity they didn't renew it especially given how they ended it.

[Stokey Sue]

I was slightly disappointed with the ending of Strike, in that I thought they could have dropped a little more evidence pointing at the identity of Anomie, though I had worked out Robin should have challenged their alibi a bit more, and I liked the whole plot involving “Paperwhite” ( the name is clever). Really enjoyed it though

Depends on whether you think you should have enough info to play detective yourself or whether you should just be in step with the sleuth. I guessed the killer in Moonflower Murders in episode 1 just by a process of elimination but of course I had no idea of the motive or why some of the modern characters didn’t quite match the 1950s ones.

[KeenCook]

Depends on whether you think you should have enough info to play detective yourself or whether you should just be in step with the sleuth. I guessed the killer in Moonflower Murders in episode 1 just by a process of elimination but of course I had no idea of the motive or why some of the modern characters didn’t quite match the 1950s ones.

Sue, that reminds me years and years ago I borrowed a series of whodunnits from a friend in which you had to work it out for yourself. I've always wondered who the author was as I've completely forgotten

[Pepper Pig]

No idea if this is true or not but I have seen many refs on Twitter. Apparently APPLE TV is free to view this weekend. Your chance to see Ted Lasso maybe?

[Busybee]

No idea if this is true or not but I have seen many refs on Twitter. Apparently APPLE TV is free to view this weekend. Your chance to see Ted Lasso maybe?

Or Slow Horses.

Highly recommend both.

BB

[scullion]

just looked - it's true.
it's going to rain so we may binge slow horses...

[Stokey Sue]

I watched Lucy Worsley Investigates last night, I nearly didn’t because yet another Jack the Ripper, but pleased that I did, it wasn’t an attempt to name him, but a look into the background and, particularly, how it became the first great blockbuster True Crime tabloid sensation. Great use of locations and visitors including Hallie Rubenhold who wrote The Five, a book of biographies of the victims.

[PatsyMFagan]

Same here

[Norfolkman]

It was very interesting and I do like the programmes she does but for some reason her voice grates with both me and my better half. Can't explain it.

I was a bit surprised that there was no comment on the letter signed by "Jack the Ripper" on the quality of the writing. Colour and wording used yes but that was very, very good tidy stuff. Not written by a poorly educated person.

[Stokey Sue]

I’m with you on the calligraphy of the letter, but I think she didn’t want to spend too long on it since she said it was currently agreed that it was written by a newspaper person - probably one she named - to keep the pot boiling so the only important thing was the introduction of the term Jack the Ripper once dismopissed as evidence of the killer

As someone who used to handle thousands of blood samples every year I was amused by the rubbish about writing in blood, you would need to collect the blood into a vial containing heparin or another anticoagulant, or it would clot to jelly as “Jack” said - butchers use vinegar other acid I think.

[herbidacious]

I enjoyed it and like Lucy Worsley a lot. There is a limit to how much depth she can go into. Having lived with academic historians, they always poo poo any history stuff on tv. My ex-historian colleague does so a lot with Ms Worsley. (But maybe some jealousy )

I have a lovely big hardback copy of Booth's Poverty maps... (but they are also available on line). Really interesting, especially if you have London ancestors. Like today, the middling rich, poor and very lived on parallel streets often.

[Stokey Sue]

Booth’s maps are available online but it was nice to see the original, as with the letter.
https://booth.lse.ac.uk/map

My building is on the map, colour coded as “Mixed, some comfortable, some poor” - at the time it was a successful greengrocer business, I’d think quite comfortable but not wealthy

[herbidacious]

The LSE online version of Booth's maps is somewhat searchable which is a great improvement on the ones I used to use online.

My ancestors lived in Pond Place in Chelsea which was also 'Mixed, some comfortable, some poor'. The next street over is one up from that and the next two parallel streets are one up again - 'middle class well to do'. Across the road is 'upper classes and well to do'. So all very mixed.

My ancestors were stonemasons (originally from Ross on Wye). They have a really rather sizable tomb in Brompton. I always (half) joke that perhaps they got a discount. (I don't know what sort of stonemasons they were but probably monumental).

Just watched Call the Midwife. It was book ended by reference to the Cohort study which T was, and still is, a part of.