Not sure this really counts as 'The Arts', general or otherwise, but as my family seems obsessed with matters gynaecological, I end up watching it for bonding purposes. As a child of the 50s, I have to point out that the expressions 'rolling out a programme of vaccination' (Christmas Special) and 'delivering pre-natal services' (first in new series) are totally anachronistic. 'Rolling out' was reserved for pastry; and 'delivering' for parcels, groceries and, appropriately, babies.
Call the Midwife
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Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post. It's yet another example of dumbing down, assuming that people would be too stupid to understand period culture and language.
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Honoured Guest
Originally posted by ardcarp View Post... as my family seems obsessed with matters gynaecological, I end up watching it for bonding purposes.Originally posted by Mary Chambers View PostI find it a minor sort of entertainment to spot all the 'mistakes' in programmes, films etc set in a time I remember well
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Call The Midwife's first two series were based on the stories of the midwife in question .I hope the third series is as good but Heidi Thomas has shown herself to be a much better adapter than an original scriptwriter in the past - compare Cranford with her cliched and terrible remake of Upstairs Downstairs .
My mother was a student dental nurse in the same area in the 1950s and she believes that much of it is pretty accurate though not the modern day language used.
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Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View PostThey often do that in modern adaptations. No sense of HIPP.
Examples include the film Titanic, the BBC Robin Hood Series and now The Musketeers. It's yet another example of dumbing down, assuming that people would be too stupid to understand period culture and language.
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Originally posted by amateur51 View PostI saw the Christmas episode of Downton Abbey and that was full of this sort of anachronism - fortunately everyone else in the room had fallen asleep so my humbuggery was not held against me
The 'Midwife' programme hasn't troubled the airwaves at Caliban Towers: looks the sort of dull, soft-focus Sunday evening pap that has me running a mile."...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Originally posted by Caliban View PostThe advantage of being "the voice of one crying aloud in the wilderness" - no one can hear you scream... or give you gyp afterwards
The 'Midwife' programme hasn't troubled the airwaves at Caliban Towers: looks the sort of dull, soft-focus Sunday evening pap that has me running a mile.
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Originally posted by Caliban View PostThe 'Midwife' programme hasn't troubled the airwaves at Caliban Towers: looks the sort of dull, soft-focus Sunday evening pap that has me running a mile. [/COLOR]
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Originally posted by Caliban View PostThe advantage of being "the voice of one crying aloud in the wilderness" - no one can hear you scream... or give you gyp afterwards
The 'Midwife' programme hasn't troubled the airwaves at Caliban Towers: looks the sort of dull, soft-focus Sunday evening pap that has me running a mile.
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Originally posted by Barbirollians View PostNo that would not be fair at all. The first two series were excellent and I hate that sort of pap normally too. Daily Mail readers may have lapped it up but it has a strongly pro welfare state message !"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Anna
Originally posted by jean View PostI hope the verbal anachronisms in the TV version of Death comes to Pemberley were the work of the adapter, not P D James herself.
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