Rather a harsh critique on poor Harriet Walters' efforts in the 1987 TV adaptation. Personally I thought she was rather good and played off Edward Petherbridge's foppish twit better than most would have been able to.djewesbury wrote:... I'd have murdered the lot of them, starting with Harriet.
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Ian Carmichael was better. On the wireless.Those TV adaptations look horribly dated now.AHB wrote:Rather a harsh critique on poor Harriet Walters' efforts in the 1987 TV adaptation. Personally I thought she was rather good and played off Edward Petherbridge's foppish twit better than most would have been able to.djewesbury wrote:... I'd have murdered the lot of them, starting with Harriet.
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I agree with the view that wireless is more timeless than TV. Which leads me to wonder whether Paul Temple ever indulged in decent Port. I do recall he and Steve fumbling around in a lightless cellar in one story and discovering by touch some Champagne, which they opened and which he recognised by taste and smell.djewesbury wrote:Ian Carmichael was better. On the wireless.Those TV adaptations look horribly dated now.AHB wrote:Rather a harsh critique on poor Harriet Walters' efforts in the 1987 TV adaptation. Personally I thought she was rather good and played off Edward Petherbridge's foppish twit better than most would have been able to.djewesbury wrote:... I'd have murdered the lot of them, starting with Harriet.
I'll need to listen to the stories again to see whether Port is mentioned.
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I am with Daniel on this one, assuming he means Harriet Vane, rather than Walters. I think one of the main problems with "Busman's Honeymoon" was that it was written as a stage play and then converted into a novel. If Daniel means Harriet Walters then I am with Alex. Either way Ian Carmichael is the man for me.AHB wrote:Rather a harsh critique on poor Harriet Walters' efforts in the 1987 TV adaptation. Personally I thought she was rather good and played off Edward Petherbridge's foppish twit better than most would have been able to.djewesbury wrote:... I'd have murdered the lot of them, starting with Harriet.
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Having just watched the film "Remains of the day", I noted the butler removed a bottle of Dow 1913 from the cellar. Fortunately I was able to check in "Port Vintages" to confirm that no such vintage appears to exist. Does anyone know whether the bottle is mentioned in the original book?
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In Our Game by Le Carré:
I remember thinking, as the thousand-voiced choir of angels struck up inside my head, that if you're celebrating your emergence from the black light, a bottle of '55 Cheval Blanc and a large dose of Graham's '27 port make an appropriately celestial accompaniment.
Great author, wonderful command of English. And the yarns aren't half bad either.
I remember thinking, as the thousand-voiced choir of angels struck up inside my head, that if you're celebrating your emergence from the black light, a bottle of '55 Cheval Blanc and a large dose of Graham's '27 port make an appropriately celestial accompaniment.
Great author, wonderful command of English. And the yarns aren't half bad either.
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Dorothy Sayers again (she clearly liked her Port). In the Lord Peter Wimsey story The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club he is interrupted by Murbles while drinking Cockburn 1886 and they share several glasses together.
Daniel did make a passing reference to this fact but didn’t include it in this thread.
Daniel did make a passing reference to this fact but didn’t include it in this thread.
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