37 Days : BBC2 : 9.00pm Thursday 6th March

Doghouse Riley · 06/03/14 - 20:22

Surprised there's no thread on this (well, I couldn't find one) although someone did start one yesterday asking about the music in the trailer, but no one responded.

Anyway, "here's a heads up." Three episodes on consecutive days, "just as we like them."

http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2014-02-04/queen-victorias-grandson-was-too-racist-for-bbc2-first-world-war-drama

[Deleted User] · 06/03/14 - 20:26

37 Days, BBC2 9pm, 6-7-8 Mar
Latest in the Beeb's mammoth chronicling of WW1 on its centenary. Dramatisation of the lead-up to the outbreak of war.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01pf7pt
Radio Times http://www.radiotimes.com/episode/ctcfd7/37-days--series-1---1-one-month-in-summer

allie4 · 06/03/14 - 20:36

So looking forward to this. Hope it doesn't disappoint!

Mr Sirs · 06/03/14 - 20:40

allie4 wrote: »

So looking forward to this. Hope it doesn't disappoint!

Yip - me too. Recording the 3 nights - will watch later...

[Deleted User] · 06/03/14 - 21:03

A stellar cast ......

contrarian · 06/03/14 - 21:32

Great start

[Deleted User] · 06/03/14 - 21:35

Wonderful so far, absolutely love it.

The backdrop of Ireland (Home Rule etc) conversations/decisions being interrupted by the crisis in Europe and put on the backburner leqding to 1916 then 1919 then 1921/22 then the awfulness of partition.

My country could have been so different only for WW1!

allie4 · 06/03/14 - 21:37

bigstripeylie wrote: »

Wonderful so far, absolutely love it.

The backdrop of Ireland (Home Rule etc) conversations/decisions being interrupted by the crisis in Europe and put on the backburner leqding to 1916 then 1919 then 1921/22 then the awfulness of partition.

My country could have been so different only for WW1!

The whole of Europe would have been so different without WW1!

[Deleted User] · 06/03/14 - 21:48

allie4 wrote: »

The whole of Europe would have been so different without WW1!

Indeed!

Just the anticiapted Home Rule bill was put off which lead to this, to that and the horrors of a sectarian statelet and an RC authoritarian state then the Troubles war then the fragile peace and astill fragmented island 100 years on.

Anyway, this dramatisation is wonderful - love it. The BBC at it's best.

[Deleted User] · 06/03/14 - 21:53

The Beeb at its best - slow, deliberate, detailed. immaculately researched. Wonderful.

[Deleted User] · 06/03/14 - 21:56

but acorns have a habit of growing .....

IJoinedInMay · 06/03/14 - 22:03

The voiceover was annoying.

Imperial · 06/03/14 - 23:03

Thought this could be a bit ponderous and boring...how wrong was I, totally riveting! BBC at it's best again.

Doghouse Riley · 06/03/14 - 23:42

You could not accuse them of not being thorough, though it was a bit ponderous at times. But it was a good programme.

Hutchy_Muse · 07/03/14 - 01:16

I really enjoyed it! I was also an extra in it

roddydogs · 07/03/14 - 07:10

Did Churchill really sound like Churchill when he was that young? He sounds like 1939

allie4 · 07/03/14 - 07:40

Now looking forward to tonight! Only slight quibbles as to inappropriate music and voice overs - though there are so many complicated strands to the politics at that time so they need some background explaining. Overall a superb drama so well done, BBC (for a change!)

solare · 07/03/14 - 07:49

allie4 wrote: »

Now looking forward to tonight! Only slight quibbles as to inappropriate music and voice overs - though there are so many complicated strands to the politics at that time so they need some background explaining. Overall a superb drama so well done, BBC (for a change!)

For me that spoilt an otherwise excellent programme.

nottinghamc · 07/03/14 - 08:31

roddydogs wrote: »

Did Churchill really sound like Churchill when he was that young? He sounds like 1939

His voice did sound a bit deep, but at least he looked like young Churchill. He wasn't just a younger characture of his older self. Liked the first episode, pretty good, although the young German clerk being a 'liberal' seemed a bit unnecessary to me.

Aviller · 07/03/14 - 08:55

Why did they choose to essentially show anything but pictures of Berlin when the scene took place in Germany's capital? The first images that explicity said "Berlin" on them were actually of Dresden and later on they showed some palace from Schwerin. I know the place had been bombed to bits during WW2 but there are still some areas left that look like they did in 1914.

Englishspinner · 07/03/14 - 09:33

Struck by the echoes from Sir Edward Grey's string of asinine bon mots in William Hague's idiotic prattle, I began to wonder if the current events in the Ukraine were triggered by the need to coincide with the "37 days" - i'll come back after Easter and report further.

Doghouse Riley · 07/03/14 - 10:00

I mentioned this on the WW1 thread, but for me, it always epitomised the mind set of of some of the establishment at the commencement of the war.
When it was suggested that we should bomb Krups munitions factory, a member of the cabinet said; "You can't! It's private property!"

radioanorak · 07/03/14 - 10:56

Why are these programmes dredged up ?
The war has been over for decades.
Just forget it & move on

gomezz · 07/03/14 - 11:12

Which seems like a timely opportunity to post this

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it

Doghouse Riley · 07/03/14 - 12:28

radioanorak wrote: »

Why are these programmes dredged up ?
The war has been over for decades.
Just forget it & move on

Excluding this excellent drama, the more cynical may be of the opinion, that the sheer number of WW1 programmes using archive film footage, we will be getting for quite some time, could be suggested, a BBC "initiative" as compared to drama they are relatively cheap to make.

[Deleted User] · 08/03/14 - 08:03

Top draw drama and I'am loving it.....well if you can love a drama chronicaling(sp) the run up to a War which cost millions their lives.

Hey there!

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