BBC is doing Cranford this autumn

[ThreadyKrueger]

...with Judie Dench, and Imelda Staunton. Will be lovely!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

They'd better not spoil Cranford! It might be one of those things I dare not watch.

Where are they filming, do you know?

That book always makes me smile. The old ladies with the oranges and the cakes under the sofa.

Filming in lots of lovely National Trust places, including somewhere called West Wykham(sp)
Know how you feel. I@ve avoided lots of TV adaptations Danie Deronda in particular. But Cranford is light enough for me not to mind too much!!!

I thought they did North & South quite well Mainly because of Richard Armitage mind you .

@ Spooky !!

Are you watching RA in Robin Hood then??!

Ohhh Cranford- I love that book having been forces to read it for a drama exam at 12 I actually ENJOYED it & my love affair with the classics was born..........

ooooh how lovely! And anything with Imelda in can't be bad! Hurrah!

I agree spook, I too thought richard armitageNorth and South was gorgeousintellectually rewarding

ooh what did I do wrong there, why wasn't richard struck out, first time of trying

It's the thought of those deep brooding eyes Honoria.....

makes your fingers (& other parts) go wobbly!!!!

So has anybody just watched it? Never read this one but found it hilarious. Is it meant to be?

That cat looked like my cat does! I wouldn't give her a purgative to get back my old lace though. I'd get a new bit .

But it was ANTIQUE!

So I'd get a new antique bit of lace .

Would you wear it after it had been through a cat's bowels??

never read the book but that was so funny... i want to read some other mrs gaskill now....what would others recommend?

YES wear it!

I've read North and South and Wives and Daughters. Both have been televised in the last 5ish years, but Wives and Daughters was the better version. Can't remember which was the better book. Think it was Wives and Daughters.

But neither are as funny as that. Think Cranford must have been Elizabeth Gaskell's Northanger Abbey...a piss take?

This adaptation apparently combines 3 of her books, but I'm not sure which three (apart from the obvious).

Apparantly my Mum has this story. I must raid her shelves.

Known collectively as The Cranford Chronicles.....just off to Amazon/Google them.

Meant to put a question mark on the end of that one....

Straight from wikipedia..

Cranford is the best-known of Elizabeth Gaskell's novels. It was first published in 1851 as a serial in the magazine Household Words, which was edited by Charles Dickens.