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Did anyone watch the Enid Blyton prog on BBC4?

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bluejeans · 16/11/2009 22:51

It was really good and well done - but sad

Want to find someone else who watched it as everyone in RL will have watched Flash Forward/Life/I'm a Celebrity

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spicemonster · 16/11/2009 22:52

It was really good but by god it was depressing

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bluejeans · 16/11/2009 22:55

Depressing - yes. I let DD stay up late to watch it. Sh says it hasn't put her off EB!

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Katymac · 16/11/2009 22:56

I thought that too - are you watching the maureen lipman version on now?

It is very different

saltyseadog · 16/11/2009 22:57

Yep - watched it too. I though HBC was superb in the main role. Desperately, desperately sad though.

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bluejeans · 16/11/2009 23:01

Agree about HBC - she seems to get bad press so often

Katy - watched the first 5 minutes of the second prog and had to turn it off! Was spoiling the affect of the first prog! Has it got better?

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MalibooStacey · 16/11/2009 23:04

so too sad to watch then

Morosky · 16/11/2009 23:06

I missed it, is it on i player?

What channel is the Maureen Lipman one on?

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bluejeans · 16/11/2009 23:06

No not too sad to watch, Maliboo. You will enjoy it, but think of Enid Blyton in a different way

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edam · 16/11/2009 23:06

damn, I was looking forward to that, but when I couldn't find it on Beeb Two imagined I'd got the wrong night. Grr.

Oh well, suppose there's always iplayer.

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bluejeans · 16/11/2009 23:10

edam - it's repeated at 2am by the looks of it - in case you are able to record it

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Katymac · 16/11/2009 23:11

Umm the second programme was a bit bipolar I think....maybe?

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bluejeans · 16/11/2009 23:14

bipolar as in you would either love it or hate it do you mean?

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saadia · 16/11/2009 23:15

I saw the BBC one - thought it was really compelling - and very sad.

Morosky · 16/11/2009 23:24

Thanks have sky+ it.

I am confused are there 2 programmes? What is the Maureen Lipman one?

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bluejeans · 16/11/2009 23:28

It was on BBC4 straight after - Bookmark or something.

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Morosky · 16/11/2009 23:30

Thanks

Katymac · 17/11/2009 07:45

No - it was kind of serious then went funny then sad then factual - it was all over the place & it certainly didn't 'sit' well after the other programme

The first programme had me worried for her mental health - the second was so different, maybe if I had watched it separately from the first one it would have come across better?

EccentricaGallumbits · 17/11/2009 07:58

didn't see the first one but did see the second 'Bookmark' one. thought it very good. still can't abide EB books.

Lizzylou · 17/11/2009 08:04

I didn't see the second one, but watched and enjoyed the HBC one.
Found it very sad, she was such a different person to the one portrayed, her poor daughters were so starved of all the fun she found so important, at least with her.

Kathyis12feethighandbites · 17/11/2009 11:09

Saw them both. From the second programme it sounded like her elder daughter at least had a better relationship with her than the first programme would suggest (the daughter herself was on it) but the younger daughter had it just as bad as the H B-C version portrayed - she wasn't on it herself but they had Anna Massey reading out passages from the book she wrote about her childhood. And it does indeed seem that she treated her husband every bit as badly as was suggested.

ROFL @ her only taking 4 1/2 days to write a Famous Five book!

Kathyis12feethighandbites · 17/11/2009 11:16

according to Wiki the sisters ended up estranged from each other.... how sad....

CarmelitaMiggs · 17/11/2009 11:19

HBC was utterly fantastic (a bit of a revelation actually)

The whole thing was very ROFLy, in an awful way.

6000 words a day!

edam · 17/11/2009 11:49

thanks bluejeans.

EB was a v. good writer for children (however much many adults hate her books). But being a good writer doesn't make you a nice human being, much less a good mother.

Loved her books when I was little, but do remember thinking it was jolly unfair that one of the clues in the Five Find-outers books could only be worked out by someone who was familiar with the town of Maidenhead. Coming from Yorkshire, I'd never heard of it!

GooseyLoosey · 17/11/2009 12:25

I didn't find it sad but rather distressing. She was not a person I found it possible to feel sorry for or sad about. I felt sad for her daughters but this kind of took back seat to feeling angry at her for behaving the way she did.

It must be said that all of this was very much from the perspective of her younger daughter and her older daughter had a rather better recollection of her childhood.

LilyBolero · 17/11/2009 13:22

I was rather distracted by trying to work out what all the actors had been in;
Kenneth - guest star in Vicar of Dibley as Daniel Frobisher
Gillian - didn't work this one out, still bugging me
Imogen - outnumbered
and then BLOW ME if Lily-Rose from the Green Balloon Club didn't roll up for a tea party!

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