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Salisbury Poisonings
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Just watched the first episode. I thought it was brilliant, real edge of the seat stuff! Even though we know the outcome.
Did anyone else think the policeman’s wife didn’t take much notice of him being ill?
Did anyone else think the policeman’s wife didn’t take much notice of him being ill?
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that's the inference, carole...the question is how near the truth the programme actually is - there was an article on Nick Bailey and his family in Saturday's DT - and he's still got some post-trauma from it, not least they had to move out of their house at short notice and lost 97% of their possessions - they had to be destroyed because of the risk of that one spot of poison....worth a read.
I enjoyed it. The policeman did go and get checked out but was told he had a virus, so not really his fault that he didn't think there was anything to worry about. I noticed the cat and guinea pigs in the village victim's house and remembered being shocked at the time because they boarded up the house with them inside as they couldn't risk anyone handling them.
I was moved enough to write to the starry eyed Times reviewers and tell them to shape up -
Dear Carol and Dominic - - - - salisbury
your excited and inaccurate reviews - Carul and Dom, come come it is a Draymer - NOT real life!
altho it was about real life - and that doesnt often happen. Living people become fiction. Think Anthony Blunt ( and you turn to each other and say - "well HE wasnt in the program!" ) - he was best portrayed with a Brian Sewell tortured English accent. He didnt have one.He spoke like us but it was a good dramatic point
Dawn S was portrayed as a three dimensional woman with feelings and regrets - what if she were just another hopeless wino who didnt care about her child but the grandmother did? but only wanted the next bottle of cheap booze
AS a draymer Salisbury, was OK
the first responders by the way were NOT concerned middle aged women clucking and saying 'foo!' prodding them with sticks and saying "oo dey dont look well dey dont!"- it was a doctor and a nurse off duty.
The contracted pupils were noticed at the get-go - they were given Naloxone ( as the prog says ) - and if they dont wake up, and the pupils remain - - then other drugs of which anticholinesterases are VERY high on the list ( like you know No 2) - billed as "organophosphates"
why was a helicopter which landed in Tescos car park, summoned for two winos? You are getting the idea.- that truth trumps fiction. They knew almost immediately they werent winos -
PC thingey DIDN;T wipe his eyes - he went there quickly and touched the door handle un moon suited. He should and did fall ill as quickly as the Scripals did and not three days later and getting worse
I cant believe the junior doctor who only had to draw blood and ask five questions, ignored three yeses ( were you there, have you been ill, have you had sight problems) - he should have been dragged out with a sign on his neck - "when I am asked to do something important, I will do it: I am a bad doctor and donkey"
Graham Thorpe poisoned his victims with thallium - one of the admitting juniors wrote in the notes - is this thallium? - late seventies.
Not supported by wiki - the Graham Thorpe junior is said to have had a PhD in inorg chemistry also not supported by wiki. I thought this had also happened in Salisbury. As is usual the truth being more incredible than the play.
Dr Tashkeyvicz - the one who couldnt cope. In real life I wd not be surprised if she really said - "oh god it wasnt like that - a real emergency! do you realise I had spent twenty years thinking about women at the WI who had caught their fingers on a spindle? and then that !"
there are asides where the proper story can be gleaned, When it is discovered well everywhere someone says - it is a week and no one has been ill. It was also over the house and the girls had not been ill. The intensivist is asked why he isnt in a moon suit and says - "because I know the toxin was fixed within six hours"
I thought the subplot with the family liaison officers was good - after Stephen Lawrence it became apparent that the FLOs were police officers who job was to tell their colleagues what their target was doing and not much else.
conflict: worked at porton down 1970 - micro not chem, as a lab rat
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please send onto Dom yesterdays reviewer who was similarly charmed by this fairy story
and not surprisingly Carul and Dom have not answered
I suppose they didnt like being cast as gullible journos
Dear Carol and Dominic - - - - salisbury
your excited and inaccurate reviews - Carul and Dom, come come it is a Draymer - NOT real life!
altho it was about real life - and that doesnt often happen. Living people become fiction. Think Anthony Blunt ( and you turn to each other and say - "well HE wasnt in the program!" ) - he was best portrayed with a Brian Sewell tortured English accent. He didnt have one.He spoke like us but it was a good dramatic point
Dawn S was portrayed as a three dimensional woman with feelings and regrets - what if she were just another hopeless wino who didnt care about her child but the grandmother did? but only wanted the next bottle of cheap booze
AS a draymer Salisbury, was OK
the first responders by the way were NOT concerned middle aged women clucking and saying 'foo!' prodding them with sticks and saying "oo dey dont look well dey dont!"- it was a doctor and a nurse off duty.
The contracted pupils were noticed at the get-go - they were given Naloxone ( as the prog says ) - and if they dont wake up, and the pupils remain - - then other drugs of which anticholinesterases are VERY high on the list ( like you know No 2) - billed as "organophosphates"
why was a helicopter which landed in Tescos car park, summoned for two winos? You are getting the idea.- that truth trumps fiction. They knew almost immediately they werent winos -
PC thingey DIDN;T wipe his eyes - he went there quickly and touched the door handle un moon suited. He should and did fall ill as quickly as the Scripals did and not three days later and getting worse
I cant believe the junior doctor who only had to draw blood and ask five questions, ignored three yeses ( were you there, have you been ill, have you had sight problems) - he should have been dragged out with a sign on his neck - "when I am asked to do something important, I will do it: I am a bad doctor and donkey"
Graham Thorpe poisoned his victims with thallium - one of the admitting juniors wrote in the notes - is this thallium? - late seventies.
Not supported by wiki - the Graham Thorpe junior is said to have had a PhD in inorg chemistry also not supported by wiki. I thought this had also happened in Salisbury. As is usual the truth being more incredible than the play.
Dr Tashkeyvicz - the one who couldnt cope. In real life I wd not be surprised if she really said - "oh god it wasnt like that - a real emergency! do you realise I had spent twenty years thinking about women at the WI who had caught their fingers on a spindle? and then that !"
there are asides where the proper story can be gleaned, When it is discovered well everywhere someone says - it is a week and no one has been ill. It was also over the house and the girls had not been ill. The intensivist is asked why he isnt in a moon suit and says - "because I know the toxin was fixed within six hours"
I thought the subplot with the family liaison officers was good - after Stephen Lawrence it became apparent that the FLOs were police officers who job was to tell their colleagues what their target was doing and not much else.
conflict: worked at porton down 1970 - micro not chem, as a lab rat
https:/
P P
please send onto Dom yesterdays reviewer who was similarly charmed by this fairy story
and not surprisingly Carul and Dom have not answered
I suppose they didnt like being cast as gullible journos
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