Feminists who are Lord Peter fans......

[BertrandRussell]

I just noticed this reference to domestic violence in Busman’s Honeymoon.
“"O-o-oh! I do hope he won't be violent."

"Violent?" said Harriet, half amused and half angry. "Oh, I shouldn't think so."

But alarm is infectious...and much-tried men have been known to vent their exasperation upon their[Pg 330] servants. The two women clung together, waiting for the explosion.

"Well," said the distant voice, "all I can say is, Bunter, don't let it happen again.... All right.... Good God, man, you needn't tell me that ...of course you didn't.... We'd better go and view the bodies."

The sounds died away, and the women breathed more freely. The dreadful menace of male violence lifted its shadow from the house”

Aren’t those last two sentences chilling?

I think I love you too @RustyBear

@BertrandRussell have audible changed previously ordered versions? 😮 I loved my Ian ones, plus had some dramatic ones too.

I can't remember my password to log onto audible now. I shall be very upset if older versions have been updated 😔

Has anyone here joined the Dorothy L Sayers society? I really want to, but you lot seem to have all the info I could ever need 😂

@HelenDenver that was exactly what I was going to say. That sort of dramatic part in a play was much of the era.

That scene in the punt in GN The development of their relationship is entirely driven by Harriet - he's already there waiting, but nothing can happen until she gets there. God I love it.

Real life has been such a letdown

Penguin yes.

Real life has been such a letdown Ain't that the truth!

The punt scene is wonderful. The novelist Catriona McPherson thinks so too

I've spent chunks of the night watching the Harriet Walter Gaudy Night on YouTube. It really is very good. I'm sure nobody else on here has anything to do today!

Probably accurate, though for the 1930s. No NHS dentistry.

Ah. That is more palatable than the idea that most country husbands knocked their wives' front teeth out.

I've spent chunks of the night watching the Harriet Walter Gaudy Night on YouTube. It really is very good.

I'd forgotten about that. Those two are brilliant together - Ian Carmichael never came close to Edward Petherbridge.

I might have to binge watch at the weekend.

I have a combined edition of the play scripts of Busman’s Honeymoon and Love All. Worth reading for the authorial asides if nothing else.

Gaudy Night is my favourite of the TV adaptations. The female academics are brilliant, it's lovely to have so much screen time with them.

Harriet W is just an amazing actor and one of the few who would be intelligent enough to understand what DLS was doing with the character. It is extraordinary, if you think about it, that this is a woman going through the same work/life angst that many of us are: on the eve of WW2.

Thanks to this I’ve been working my way through the Walters/Petherbridge series on YouTube and it is very good. I was struck by the cigarette/cigar smoking - had forgotten how normal it was in TV programmes.

I am watching Gaudy Night on YouTube (haven't seen it for ages), thank you for the prompt below... and DH has wandered into the sitting room and started a passionate discussion about where it was filmed. He hasn't even read the book.

So , does anyone else recognise the dining room of the college appearing as Shrewsbury? Or have I actually come up with too niche a question for this very niche topic? 😂

He declares it to be Sidney in Cambridge. I think it's Merton in Oxford. As why would they film anything in Cambridge?

And why is so much dialogue repeated in episode 2??

InvisibleUnicorn, think I read somewhere that it was filmed at Corpus Christi, Oxford. Though I suppose it may not all have been in the same place. All wrong using an old college of course.

This is a wonderful thread. Thank you for staring it BetrandRussell. No one I know in real life has read any of the Dorothy Sayers novels.

One small detail that fascinated me in Murder Must Advertise is the short reference to Lord Peter trying to court Harriet Vane while investigating this case.

I am of course desperately in love with Peter Wimsey (I think DH doesn't mind as he is similarly in love with Harriet Vane). The one phrase that jars for me is the line in BH where PW contemplates his "female possessions". Hmph.

It's lovely to read this again and lovely to read an actual physical book after several e-books.

@catkind Ah, that was actually DH's point about Sidney after I had explained it was a newer college and sited on balloon cricket ground (I love that detail!)

He said Sidney was the same and just built in the style of a much older college. It is to be fair, similar sounding with very formal and beautiful gardens.

I am enjoying the last episode of Gaudy on YouTube and the film/sound has unfortunately slipped out of sync. I am still massively enjoying it though 😍

*Balliol.

How can you mispronounce Balliol?

@drspouse spellcheck...

I am "working" while also enjoying Strong Poison. God bless YouTube.

Thanks to this thread I am now re-reading DLS and also re-watching on Youtube. I am on Have His Carcase and really really want a knitted beret like Harriet is wearing!

Ah not you Invisible it was upthread in one of the audio book posts!