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woohoo, yes, I will be here at 8.30 and Ben is fab for coming on early

for some inexplicable reason, I have a craving for a scotch egg sandwich

don't go icod - common knowledge that writers eat all sorts of bizarre things during the long midnight toil.

I'm still so surprised that I'd never heard of Eddie Chapman before reading this book. All those adventures are so extraordinary, you'd think he woudl have become a well known war figure.

and fwiw, I think that David Tennant, or Daniel Craig would be good to play Eddie

Did Ben manage to track down Eddies' daughter

No to Rupert Everett. Too louche and upper class.

YES to Daniel Craig (thats yes in general...not just for this purpose )

I had mentioned David Tennant before and I'm glad to see another vote for him.

Anyone back me up on James McAvoy for the casting couch?

yeah, but it wasn't till long after the war had ended that Bletchley Park waseven heard of, and probably a lot of people have still not heard of Tommy Flowers or Alan Turing

David Tennant gets a vote here!

Tilly so much of it was extraordinary but I suppose that a lot of that information has probably only been made public in the last few years under Labour's public right to information reforms?

So, Tilly, do you ask us Book Group type questions now?

I think James McAvoy's too young and clean cut looking.

That's a yes for DT here aswell

<clears throat>

<sips wine nervously>

<trys to look cool, yet interesting, and the sort of person you'd want to chat to at a book club>

I can think of a few ways of aging James MacAvoy...

Sorree....am I lowering the tone AGAIN??!

Actually I think hes only about a year or two younger than Chapman was at the beginning of Zig Zag.

Just realised that his story has alreayd been made into a film (Ben mentions in the end of the book) - Eddie is played by Christopher Plummer of sound of music fame pic http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001626/bio here

What I want to read is Freda's story, and how Chapman was with her. i wonder hwo much he told her, or whether she really was in teh dark.

Just realised that his story has alreayd been made into a film (Ben mentions in the end of the book) - Eddie is played by Christopher Plummer of sound of music fame pic http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001626/bio here

What I want to read is Freda's story, and how Chapman was with her. i wonder hwo much he told her, or whether she really was in teh dark.

Go on, someone pick a question

really, notyummy, what would those be then? do tell

Yes Freda's story, that WOULD be interesting. Do you think she knew what was going on, or do you think she was just a bit dim and thoght these gentlemen were all part of some dodgy criminal underworld?!

kept coming up as error, and in light of the fact that he was censored how accurate was the film

I think Freda knew something was going on, but loved him and had a child, so didn't want to ask too many questions.

I think Freda knew a lot more than she let on, just was very wise and kept her mouth shut

Christopher Plummer! That's ALL wrong.
here's the film


I think they can remake it - it was in 1966. Think they need someone much dishier than Capt von Trapp!!

I think Freda knew that the best thing she could do was keep schtumm

my mum reliably informs me that he was quite the thing back in the day!