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New series...grantchester

The series is based on the chapters in "Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death" by James Runcie. I'm not sure how many episodes there are, but there is a sequel, which I haven't yet read
The first episode was (a) very true to the book and (b) filmed in the real locations (apart from Cambridge Station). As I lived in a village very near Granchester and was driven through it regularly as a child, I found the opening sequence quite emotional!
 
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Hi All,

I watched it. THe camera work was very good and the area looks beautiful. However the story line was much too far fetched and I will probably not bother again.

Old Boy
 
I liked it but thought they had to pack in too much in an hour so it was rushed.


I like 2 hour series like Morse or Lewis.
 
Saw the first, mixed feelings, I too love Robson Green. its just down the road from me, and I know the hamlet of Grantchester well, its main claim to fame is the WW1 poet Wilfred Owen lived there before enlisting, the swimming sequence was filmed in "Byrons Pool", where the poet of that name swam in the, early 19th C, the "Orchard Café is famous for 1000's of Cambridge University students, going way back to the 18thC, and the infamous "Ex-Conservative Minister " Jeffrey Archer, owns the famous Vicarage there. My wife and I often walked when my children were small by the river and though, Granchester Meadows, and by the the pool, had tea in the orchard.!!! Paul
 
The series closely follows the chapters in the Sidney Chambers book; if the plot is thin it is because that's how it is in the book. It gives a wonderful feel of life and attitudes in the period - I was a child living there then! Life was very gentle ....
 
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and that is type of programme i like les..the feel good type thats easy to watch...i think that the very first episode of any new series is just a platform so i will be keeping up with it...

lyn
 
My wife & I enjoyed the programme too.
Being typical ex-army though, I moaned about the flashback to the vicar shooting Germans, he was wearing a "blue" beret which I'm pretty sure the Scots Guards did not !
 
Oh Baz you are as bad as me. Whilst able to suspend belief over most it falls down on things where I have knowledge of what is factually or historically incorrect. Looking forward to catching up with Grantchester as I have relatives who live nearby and have visited the area on a number of occasions.
 
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This morning I have had to remove two posts from this thread. One was totally in the wrong thread and not at all relevant to the subject. The second was out of place in thread about a TV series.

May I respectfully ask that folk stick to the subject of the thread and the section in which it is posted.

Thanks folk.




BernardR
 
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