Channel 4's Indian Summers

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2951691/Sex-memsahibs-major-TV-series-portrays-bed-hopping-antics-oh-proper-Brits-Raj-truth-steamier.html

If you enjoyed Passage to India, Downton Abbey, with a touch of Payton Place thrown in, this will be compulsive viewing for you.

[retrocop]

Yes aog.
My memsahib has already booked the TV for the next several weeks.

[Marshwarble]

Peyton Place, AOG.

[Marshwarble]

It used to be all the Raj...

[Fusion5]

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.

[mikey4444]

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.

[zebo]

I doubt anything can top Jewel in the Crown.

[mikey4444]

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

[237SJ]

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.

[whirlyhurly]

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.