Howard's end

[Braceface]

Anyone watching?

It's a bit strange. As someone said, Leonard looks like a schoolboy so that kissing scene was a bit weird. That little dinner party was a bit multi cultural for those days! Get real, BBC.

Bored and confused. Hate these period dramas where you have to guess why certain things are so significant. Why wasn't she allowed to go on the train with the older woman cos her husband and daughter unexpectedly turned up?

Watching and studied book at A level

Only connect

Not sure the Jacky casting is realistic

Matthew Macfadyen is far too young!

I adore Julia Ormond and at 50+ she's the right age but MM is barely 40. Weird casting.

Leonard Bast is supposed to be really young... A teenager I think. Definitely under 21.

I enjoyed it. Loved the fact not all actors were white, about time.

Leonard looks absurdly young compared to his wife. His accent sounds like a standard lower middle class tv one to me though.

I shall definitely watch next week; if I'm not thrilled with it then, I'll give up.

Yes Mr Wilcox was an older grey gentlemen.

1992 film was Vanessa Redgrave and Anthony Hopkins, more realistic

TBF, I had guessed that the chances were that Mrs Wilcox was ill and going to die and Hayley and Mr Wilcox would hook up.
DH called Umbrella Boy being poor, I wondered if he was just taken aback by their lack of decorum before we saw him walk home.

Jackie was much older, he’d felt obligated to marry her, can’t remember details

Is there more to Tibby's hayfever though? Granted, I sometimes feel shitty with it, but he seems very dramatic. Or is he just a pampered dramallama?

Leonard's wife was at least 10 years older than him

Re the multiculturalism, the 1911 census is available online if anyone knows any foreign surnames they could do a search on the numbers of people with them, if they are bothered.

Goodness that was sloooooowww

Who's Jackie? Umbrella Boy's wife?

Louise, how would you use the surname to tell if someone is black (which I assume is what pp mean by multiculturalism)?

Lol I spent the whole time thinking when will they get to Florence and the frescos. I blame Helena Bonham Carter.

Yes jackie is Leonard's wife

yup, Holy.

Would there be mixed raced marriages in 1910 in the UK in all honesty?

woodhill, Leonard's marriage is perceived to be a bit of a mesalliance even from his low middle class/white-collar working class perspective: she is iirc a former barmaid

Would there be mixed raced marriages in 1910 in the UK in all honesty?

Don't see why not, perhaps not among the middle or upper classes but in the lower classes maybe. London has always been a city of immigrants, it's not a recent thing.

I warmed to it a bit by the end. Agree about the sound being off - talking too quiet and music too loud.

agree with Queen: class is the key issue here

Yes she definitely portrayed as a bit common if I remember. Read book in 1985