THE WOMAN IN THE WALL. BBC 1 sun 9pm - TV PACE. NO SPOILERS

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this is a 6 part drama

1 is shown sun and then 2 on the monday

3456 the following 4 Sundays

it’s will no doubt be on iPlayer but try and not binge lovely people in my phone 😂😂😂

this will be tv paced

Ruth Wilson and Daryl McCormack are teaming up for a gripping new BBC drama, which is inspired by the horrifying revelations around Ireland's Magdalene Laundries.

The Woman In The Wall follows the horrors experienced by Lorna Brady (Ruth Wilson) is a woman from the small, fictional Irish town of Kilkinure, who wakes one morning to find a corpse in her house.

Lorna is chilled to the core as she has no idea who the dead woman is or if she could even be responsible for the apparent murder herself. This is a deadly possibility because Lorna suffers from extreme bouts of sleepwalking, which started around the time she was ripped from her life at the age of 15 and incarcerated in the Kilkinure Convent.

The Woman in the Wall follows Lorna Brady (Wilson), a woman who was incarcerated in a convent from a young age, where she traumatically gave birth – only to have the baby taken away from her to whereabouts unknown.

The awful treatment she endured continues to impact her life, causing extreme bouts of sleepwalking that end with her waking up in strange places with no memory of how she got there.

While her specific story is a work of fiction, the Magdalene Laundries were very real and are thought to have blighted the lives of tens of thousands of women.

Although their history dates back further, more is known about the practices of these institutions in the 20th century, where inmates entered via the criminal justice system, reformatory schools and the Health and Social Services sector.

Once inside, they would have to carry out unpaid labour, while many former inmates have reported being abused.

Magdalene Laundries became the subject of a media scandal in the 1990s, when a mass grave holding 155 bodies was discovered on the former grounds of one such institution in Drumcondra, Dublin.

I had First Holy Communion at fourteen. So i towered above the rest of them height wise. I was sent to do catechism at the local convent beforehand. Parents considered sending me to New Hall boarding school but decided it was too expensive.

Phew

Yep Had to make stuff up for confession too. Just kids FFS

Frances Tomelty playing the Mother Superior

fucking liar

It's much better tonight. Glad there's less humour.

I'm shocked by some of the things on this thread. I have read quite a bit about the laundries and also watched Philomena. Terrible, terrible places.

I totally riveted by tonight's episode. Really gripping.

Is the detective going to turn out to be one of the babies that was born in that convent/laundry

oh he said he was born in a mother and baby home just as i posted

I'm just about to watch this now. It sounds promising.

Yeah @Theblacksheepandme that was me. Little wedding dress at about 7/8 years. I didn't have clue to be honest what it was all about. My dad was RC my mum was CofE. So it was what it was. None of us religious now - including my parents!

Tonight's episode was really good - better even. I knew the detective was one of the babies.

My mothers best friend was out into a laundry because she was "flighty". Apparently she looked like Ava Gardner and attracted loads of attention.

Mum didn't see her for years and years and when she finally met her again she was completely institutionalised.

I had a school friend who was born in a mother and baby home, and was adopted. She then ended up in one in the mid 80s herself when we were at school. Her parents told her not to come home with the baby.

She ignored that. Had the baby and came straight home with her. Her parents did a complete 180 and adored that little girl,
Took my friend a long time to forgive them though. She never talks about that place.

Its horrendous what happened to these girls, the Catholic Church really has a lot to answer for.

I thought we saw the detectives mother when we were first introduced to his character? How would that have worked if he was born in a mother and baby unit?

I think Lorna's baby died, I suspect her friends baby also died 😓

We did see his mum.

But then that could be the mum who adopted him couldn't it

How did she manage to just walk out with the baby. These girls were kept like prisoners and not allowed to leave?

My cousin was born out of wedlock. My Aunt left for England and left my cousin with her Grandparents and they looked after her. My Father would be her Uncle.

My Mum was talking to me a long time ago about her and said my Grandmother asked my Morher to look after her when she died, my Grandfather had already died. My Mother said she never liked her and once my Grandmother died sent her to a Magdalene laundry. She would have only been about 14 at the time. I was absolutely horrified and my Mother couldn't understand why I got so upset.

There is quite an age gap between me and this cousin. She must have got out eventually and got married and had kids. She seems to have done well for herself despite my Mums cruel actions.

Girls weren't kept like prisoners in the 1980s I find that frustrating with the programme the timelines are completely wrong, what they've depicting did not happen in the 1980s. What they're depicting was more like 1950s Ireland.

I'm glad I stumbled on this thread. Please can you add me to your watch list @Blondeshavemorefun?
I love a good TV drama, and missed this as I have had an extremely busy weekend. I watched the first two episodes on iPlayer.
I agree that I don't really like the pretentious "art house" production style, but the story is gripping enough to keep watching.

How did she manage to just walk out with the baby. These girls were kept like prisoners and not allowed to leave?

She wasn't a prisoner, but the heavy implication was that you could leave, but your baby stays, otherwise everyone will know your shame.

Her parents were older and Uber religious, they thought the entire community would ostracise them.

My Mum was talking to me a long time ago about her and said my Grandmother asked my Morher to look after her when she died, my Grandfather had already died. My Mother said she never liked her and once my Grandmother died sent her to a Magdalene laundry. She would have only been about 14 at the time. I was absolutely horrified and my Mother couldn't understand why I got so upset.

That is shocking! These places could never have existed without the collusion of the wider community. How convenient it must have been to fling your relatives into a Laundry because "they'd be better off"

Isn't Frances Tomelty as Sr. Eileen such a great actress.

She's outstanding. I love her in everything g she does.

I'm "enjoying" this. Enjoying seems the wrong word though!

I think it is good for a prime time drama based on this subject. No, it maybe doesn't convey the full horror and it is lightened by humour in places but it does bring the subject matter into the light. There's more out there if viewers want the full gritty horror of it.

I thought the scene where the women all brought out an object during that interview was well done.

I fleetingly thought that the older couple of women were actually a couple. Especially when one said that the other had never even had a boyfriend. That plus the comments about the sandwiches which seemed quite couple like.

I don't think Lorna would have called the police. She's had a run in with them before over her sleepwalking and she's not thinking like an ordinary person. She probably just thought hiding the body was sensible. It's going to smell though!

I just can’t get into it.