ChrisB Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 Will be screened on BBC1 at 17.05 on Sunday 19th August. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grendel Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 give me the 1974 version any day, I mean where do spies and seaplanes come into the books, or daring escapes on train roofs. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisB Posted August 14, 2018 Author Share Posted August 14, 2018 1 minute ago, grendel said: give me the 1974 version any day, I mean where do spies and seaplanes come into the books, or daring escapes on train roofs. And there is me having just washed my Nancy Blackett Trust polo shirt especially for the viewing. Bah!!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisB Posted August 14, 2018 Author Share Posted August 14, 2018 I tend to agree if that is the case. No need to make reference however slight to the fact that he was monitored by MI5 from the end of WW1 to 1937 and was considered by some to be a double agent. Perhaps there was a feeling of great unease after the author of one of the greatest sailing stories " Riddle of the Sands" Erskine Childers ended his life in front of a firing even after an exemplary previous military career. A bit heavy but "Six weeks in Russia - 1919" is a Ransome worth reading. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grendel Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 Perhaps marrying Tolstoys secretary did not help his career 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Polly Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 'Snow White Blood Red' is another great read if Ransome's own story interests you. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vanessan Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 I am currently just finishing Swallows and Amazons, an audiobook recording. I first read it around 60 years ago but couldn’t remember very much of it and I am enjoying it tremendously. I’m not sure if I shall watch the programme on BBC on Sunday as I think it will probably spoil it for me. I have been trying to imagine today’s kids being able to behave like those Swallows and Amazons but sadly I can’t see it with all the nannying that goes on now not to mention the fact that most kids couldn’t be without their mobiles for more than 5 minutes! A truly different world. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grendel Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 the 1974 version is very true to the book, as is the 1980's rendition of coot club and big six in the form of the tv series (swallows and amazons forever) set on the broads, both are available on dvd. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JennyMorgan Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 So political correctness prevented Titty from being called Titty in the 2106 version? Long may Titties remain Titties! 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 35 minutes ago, JennyMorgan said: So political correctness prevented Titty from being called Titty in the 2106 version? Long may Titties remain Titties! Alas yes. In recent versions of the famous five Aunt Fanny has become Aunt Frannie and Dick has become Rick. How long I wonder before we see Chris Packham on Springwatch talking about nesting pairs of Blue Cyanistes? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 3 hours ago, grendel said: the 1974 version is very true to the book, as is the 1980's rendition of coot club and big six in the form of the tv series (swallows and amazons forever) set on the broads, both are available on dvd. There is a lot missing from the Big Six, and especially Coot Club, though I suppose that is the pressure of slimming the novels to around 75 minutes of TV. In essence though the storylines remain much the same. I am not sure I want spies and such adding. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arthur Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 6 hours ago, grendel said: Perhaps marrying Tolstoys secretary did not help his career Slip of the fingers I guess Grendel Evgemia Ransome was Trotskys Secretary. Tolstoy was the guy who wrote War and Peace. Anyway I agree with you the 1974 version of the film was far better. Why do they need to mess about adding things that are not in the books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 12 minutes ago, Arthur said: Why do they need to mess about adding things that are not in the books. The later remakes of the Marple series by ITV is a case in point. Some of the episodes are totally different to the original novels, some re-written completely to feature Miss Marple when she did not appear in the original. Sadly, you can easily tell when the story line has been altered. TV scriptwriters are not in the same class as Ms Christie when it comes to a good crime novel. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisB Posted August 15, 2018 Author Share Posted August 15, 2018 I recently watched "A walk in the woods" . Very disappointing and nothing like Bill Bryson's excellent book. Have to say it was unusual because Robert Redford is a stickler to keeping to the story as written. His version of "The Great Gatsby" is a true likeness to F. Scott Fitzgerald's work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisB Posted August 15, 2018 Author Share Posted August 15, 2018 Sophie Neville's " The Secrets of Filming Swallows and Amazons" is an interesting read. Published in 2011 it is available on Kindle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisB Posted August 15, 2018 Author Share Posted August 15, 2018 This is the trailer put together for Sophie Neville's book. I think it is insight into film making 44 years ago https://www.imdb.com/videoplayer/vi3400510489 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisB Posted August 15, 2018 Author Share Posted August 15, 2018 This is her preparing for her role in Swallows and Amazons. It really does help if your parental home in The Cotswolds has it's own lake. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stumpy Posted August 15, 2018 Share Posted August 15, 2018 11 hours ago, JennyMorgan said: So political correctness prevented Titty from being called Titty in the 2106 version? Long may Titties remain Titties! And then there's Guy Gibson's Labrador of colour. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vanessan Posted August 15, 2018 Share Posted August 15, 2018 11 hours ago, JennyMorgan said: So political correctness prevented Titty from being called Titty in the 2106 version? Long may Titties remain Titties! Didn’t they change it to Tatty in an earlier version too? The audiobook I have been listening to calls her Titty and it just becomes another word. I had a great-aunt called Auntie Hilda, apparently I couldn’t say Auntie when I was little and it became Tete- pronounced Teetee. The whole family called her that until the day she died aged 93. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JennyMorgan Posted August 15, 2018 Share Posted August 15, 2018 1 hour ago, stumpy said: And then there's Guy Gibson's Labrador of colour. I can foresee a time when folk will not even be able to say that he was black without feeling a degree of embarrassment . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smellyloo Posted August 15, 2018 Share Posted August 15, 2018 I'm not really sure what words are no longer considered unacceptable or even why ..... I've even been modded here for using the word "fag" ...... referring to a ciggy ..... go figure. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
annv Posted August 15, 2018 Share Posted August 15, 2018 How nice Cris. When i was a apprentice many years ago, there was one of the engineers called ******( the same name as guy gibsons dog) never found out why no body found it unusual to shout out his name across the workshop the same as you would sam/fred he had a very slight tan but?.he was a very nice chap was always helpful and a good tradesman. John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grendel Posted August 15, 2018 Share Posted August 15, 2018 there is some degree of how shall I put it 'mucky word' filtering built into the forum software, unfortunately it (like many other pieces of software) only recognises american mucky words and tends to replace them or star them out accordingly, thus it is you can probably no longer say bobs your uncle and fanny's your aunt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grendel Posted August 15, 2018 Share Posted August 15, 2018 probably got away with that because I used an english spelling. or proper punctuation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vanessan Posted August 15, 2018 Share Posted August 15, 2018 23 minutes ago, grendel said: proper punctuation. Perhaps the system’s not sure of the punctuation and that’s why you got away with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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