Feminists who are Lord Peter fans......

This thread is a much needed tonic.

I didn’t realise Busman’s Honeymoon was originally written for the stage. I can’t get my head round how the diary entries or epistolary bits (which I like best of the whole book) would have worked in that format.

Apparently he had never given any of his lovers cause for complaint, according to his possibly biased uncle in the afterword.

ah, this thread! I am in total agreement about the punt scene. And have always been looking for a man who would surreptitiously complete my half-finished sonnet, making it a better poem.

They can have the harmony if they leave us the counterpoint.

The French opera singer in Peter's past is a bit dodgy though. All very well singing saucy songs in the French language but what happened to her when he discarded her, eh?

Also on busman's honeymoon - I agree we have to take some of its broader parts as being suited to the stage. The denouement itself, for example, is entirely a visual special effect. All a bit Phantom of the Opera.

Also, I think Ian Carmichael is a terrific reader, but he was much too old for the part when he was acting in it. Edward Petherbridge all the way on screen. Harriet Walter is one of my all time favourite actors - such presence!

Except that, they have a whole argument about it, and he says something along the lines that he would consider it an impertinance to order her to do anything, and she says no, you’d give orders quick smart if there was something falling from above or the house was on fire.

Has nobody mentioned Harriet promising to obey?
I don't care if they did it to annoy Helen and make a point about how liberated they were, I still don't like it.

I could see how a person could mispronounce Balliol but not someone who's paid to be an audiobook reader...

I had no idea all these were on YouTube, I can see some very happy hours ahead of me

I really love The Nine Tailors read by Ian Carmichael, I could listen to him reading out the bell changes for hours.

Looking at screenshots I'm convinced the hall scenes are Corpus Christi Oxford.

Can't work out how to get images in here but if you look carefully at the first scene in GN when it pans across it has a tiled floor, a fireplace on the right hand side, and little carved things coming down either side of the portrait behind the high table. Those all match Corpus but not Sidney. And Sidney has a door behind the high table on the right which I can't see in the video.

Hang on.

Strong Poison is on YouTube too?

InvisibleUnicorn I agree about the knapsack, it also seems to hold an awful lot of items! I have been looking online for a knitting pattern but no luck so far. In episode 2 Harriet wears a rather splendid zigzag top.

Am also re-reading Murder Must Advertise for the umpteenth time & hugely enjoying it while thinking how it is remarkably modern in some ways in outlook. Just got to the bit where he goes out to dinner with the only woman who wasn't pining on his account.

@bettys I have just started Have His Carcase. I too think the beret is positively splendid! And the nap sack . I previously spotted some replica nap sacks on not on the high street and I am coveting a proper canvas and leather job.

@drspouse is was mispronounced on audible? 😳😳😳

Mind, when I lived in Oxford I was often forced to keep a very straight face when tourists mispronounced Magdalen. I tried to be very polite and not correct them obviously 🙈

Ah not you Invisible it was upthread in one of the audio book posts!

Thanks to this thread I am now re-reading DLS and also re-watching on Youtube. I am on Have His Carcase and really really want a knitted beret like Harriet is wearing!

@drspouse spellcheck...

I am "working" while also enjoying Strong Poison. God bless YouTube.

How can you mispronounce Balliol?

*Balliol.

@catkind Ah, that was actually DH's point about Sidney after I had explained it was a newer college and sited on balloon cricket ground (I love that detail!)

He said Sidney was the same and just built in the style of a much older college. It is to be fair, similar sounding with very formal and beautiful gardens.

I am enjoying the last episode of Gaudy on YouTube and the film/sound has unfortunately slipped out of sync. I am still massively enjoying it though 😍

It's lovely to read this again and lovely to read an actual physical book after several e-books.

I am of course desperately in love with Peter Wimsey (I think DH doesn't mind as he is similarly in love with Harriet Vane). The one phrase that jars for me is the line in BH where PW contemplates his "female possessions". Hmph.

This is a wonderful thread. Thank you for staring it BetrandRussell. No one I know in real life has read any of the Dorothy Sayers novels.

One small detail that fascinated me in Murder Must Advertise is the short reference to Lord Peter trying to court Harriet Vane while investigating this case.

InvisibleUnicorn, think I read somewhere that it was filmed at Corpus Christi, Oxford. Though I suppose it may not all have been in the same place. All wrong using an old college of course.

And why is so much dialogue repeated in episode 2??

I am watching Gaudy Night on YouTube (haven't seen it for ages), thank you for the prompt below... and DH has wandered into the sitting room and started a passionate discussion about where it was filmed. He hasn't even read the book.

So , does anyone else recognise the dining room of the college appearing as Shrewsbury? Or have I actually come up with too niche a question for this very niche topic? 😂

He declares it to be Sidney in Cambridge. I think it's Merton in Oxford. As why would they film anything in Cambridge?