Toast, anyone?

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Nothing else on that I can see, and I don't particularly like Nigel Slater.... but so far the show seems very watchable.

Abuse?

Thought HBC was brilliant.

The gardener.

He does mention his sexual leanings doesn't he? Didnt he watch some bloke wanking in the woods and feel up some girl in a hotel?

Its a very odd thing isnt it - him putting himself out there like that when he's not even old - its going to colour every cooking programme you now see with him in - hes not going ot make you feel like cooking - he's just going to make me feel sad. Very odd.

I've read the book and I'm a bit of a Slater stalker, love love love him and his style of cooking. Thought the prog was a great adaptation of the book and would def recommend reading it.

I didn't find it natural for a grown man to strip in front of a 12 yr old boy and wash his genitals when I read the book and classed it as abuse.

I also found the book spelt out his sexuality.

Stunning, wept for the first half hour what a sad, cold childhood. I didnt realise NS was gay but had wondered before.

Great ending but loosing out to a loving childhood must have left a scar.

Did she overfeed him on purpose then. HBC was superb too!

i dont think its odd at all, just life, many people experience or alot of his experiences and feel eternal sadness.

it wont make me feel sad when i watch him, but will give insight into what has shaped his exsistance now.

should read dont feel eternal sadness

Agree HBC was good. Last time I saw her she was Enid Blyton, and very good too. Was not previously a fan of hers.

I thought this was utter cack

Book's great, but this... Awful instrusive score, everything spelled out like we're morons, and the child was so badly directed. Did you see his "ecstatic" face when they put that bread basket in front of him at the Masonic dinner (what was in it, incidentally)?

HBC was good though

I haven't read Toast. Is the stuff with the gardener more explicit in the book? I thought from the programme that the gardener was innocent. NS is quite openly gay isn't he?

'everything spelled out like we're morons'

reminds me of Slater's programme style.

yes he is slightly laborious isn't he

That's the trouble with tv and films.
Hence vast supriority of books.
So much left to one's own imaginaTION.

I didn't like the book.

But I can't remember much about it - certainly don't remember anything coming across as abuse but I could well have just forgotten.

I loved it and I bawled....a lot.

sorry really didn't get it so switched off halfway through

Don't recall abuse in the book, but its years since I read it. I'm pretty certain he had a relationship with a girl in the book though.

It was serialised on Radio 4 book at bedtime read by Nigel himself. Lots of publicity at the time but it hasn't affected his programmes imo.

Thought it was brilliant! The whole family watched it and loved it.

Dh kept getting something in his eye though! There was a lot of eye dabbing and sniffing!

Thought it was excellent, the whole family watched it. Losing his Mum so young was heartbreaking and they showed it from a child's perspective, very sad. His Dad was a man of his generation I guess, not tactile & couldn't show his love for his son. His childhood seemed very lonely. I wonder what happened to Mrs. Potts and did he ever see her again ? Anyone know from the book ?

Just catching up on iPlayer. Bawling.

He was abused by an uncle who babysat, made him play find the penny and put it in his trousers Also the gardener Josh rubbed him down where he shouldn't (from what I recall?)

Thought this was a great adaptation. Often you can barely recognise true stories they're so bastardised.

From what I remembered from the book,he downplayed all the abuse and classed it as sexual experience

hmm.