Saturday afternoon-- banish dh, send kids to play outside, buy giant sized bar of chocolate and settle down to watch.....

[Orlando]

The Shooting Party. 4.15pm on BBC 2.

Can see you lot will need some persuading. (sigh) I don't mind... I'll keep bumping, and then you'll all say 'Thank you Orlando for forcing us to watch the most lovely, moving, lyrical, picturesque film ever in the whole world...'

eh?

I got it on dvd the other day,in the bargain bucket, was well chuffed.

who's in it and what's it about?

blimey, lucy, where??

Have it on old, crackly VHS but really must update.

Hold on, let me find a link...

here

James Mason, John Gielgud, Gordon Jackson, Cheryl Campbell...

Very autumnal somehow. Perfect saturday afternoon viewing.

And did Isabel Colegate also not write the Orlando Trilogy?
I am working, can you believe it, so will set the video.
Loved the book - one of the first proper Penguins I ever bought for myself - and I think it may even have been a film-tie-in edition...

Oh, she did Marina, she did!

'Orlando at the Brazen Threshold'... Can't see a title like that making it onto Richard and Judy's bookclub list!

I have the book, with the film stills on the cover. Had already spotted the film in the listings. Will be watching ( with the chocoate...)

spiffing, does someone get shot in the end

Yes.

Marina-- throw sickie

I would be abandoning a completely new member of staff orlando and I can't be that heartless...alas.