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anotheoldgit | 11:12 Fri 13th Feb 2015 | Film, Media & TV
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If you enjoyed Passage to India, Downton Abbey, with a touch of Payton Place thrown in, this will be compulsive viewing for you.
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Yes aog.
My memsahib has already booked the TV for the next several weeks.
Peyton Place, AOG.
It used to be all the Raj...
Aaah Peyton Place, the very first soap opera I ever saw.

Yes I am looking forward to Indian Summers, my seat is booked in front of telly.
I am looking forward to this as well. As long as it is as good as "The Jewel in the Crown", I shall be a happy man, although that will be a tough act to follow.
I doubt anything can top Jewel in the Crown.
Zebo...actually you are nearly right but not quite !

The original 4 books by Paul Scott were even better than the TV adaption.
I first read them in my late teens, not long after they came out, and I can recommend them to everybody. He wrote a sequel, "Staying On", which won the Booker Prize in 1977, although it is in the form of a coda, rather than a sequel. It was also made into a first class TV adaption, starring Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson, who were reunited for the first time since Brief Encounter !....worth watching for that fact alone !

But the TV adaption of the Raj Quartet was as near perfect as anybody could have hoped for, and its a box set that I come back to every few years or so.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Raj_Quartet
I've been waiting for this and didn't realise it started this weekend so I've come away without setting the DVD recorder which is annoying. Should be good.
On Radio 4 it was given poor reviews. I think perhaps (J K Rowling's) The Casual Vacancy on BBC 1 seems a better bet. Still I'll be watching both.

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