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Old 05-09-2014, 01:40
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Loved it!...

Didn't watch "live" and only caught up last night so knew the ratings weren't that great. That is a shame really. Its a good all round show, and the cast are first rate.

Did want to boo the mum (nicely played by Anne Reid) when she was telling her poor old son to buck his ideas up......

Will try to catch it live next week....
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Old 05-09-2014, 06:38
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Thought the elder girl was Lily Cole...model face.
But if the lad had turned up, what would they have done when they got off the boat, with no money?
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Old 05-09-2014, 07:00
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I am really looking forward to the all the future episodes.
The acting,the settings,locations and the filming were a treat.
It is very rare to read on DS so many favourable comments.
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Old 05-09-2014, 10:05
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Thought the elder girl was Lily Cole...model face.
But if the lad had turned up, what would they have done when they got off the boat, with no money?
They had planned to get a job abroad the ship
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Old 05-09-2014, 10:07
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The older daughter is being played as a stroppy teenager but in a more gentile way as befits a time before teenagers were invented. But yes, the young June is a real talent, the scene early on where she uses just a facial expression to persuade her dad to save the camel was a beaut.
Though little girls do instinctively seem to be very good at that sort of thing in real life!
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Old 05-09-2014, 10:09
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The older girl is Amelia Clarkson

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/prof...ew-mottershead
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Old 05-09-2014, 11:22
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Loved it!...

Didn't watch "live" and only caught up last night so knew the ratings weren't that great. That is a shame really. Its a good all round show, and the cast are first rate.

Did want to boo the mum (nicely played by Anne Reid) when she was telling her poor old son to buck his ideas up......

Will try to catch it live next week....
Compared to other dramas at the moment, which are all low, I'd say the ratings are fine. It happens to be next to one of the very highest rating programmes of the year - Bake Off - but if you compare it to other dramas it did better than most. I hope that the good reaction means those viewers will stick with it.

I think everyone in the cast was excellent. I hope the vicar isn't going to be an out and out villain and I'm very intrigued by the lady of the manor character - are these all based on real people? I thought they did George's shell shock particularly well, which can be a bit of a cliche in a drama but felt totally real to me, and his feeling for the animals. Lee Ingleby is a terrific actor.
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Old 05-09-2014, 12:15
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Compared to other dramas at the moment, which are all low, I'd say the ratings are fine. It happens to be next to one of the very highest rating programmes of the year - Bake Off - but if you compare it to other dramas it did better than most. I hope that the good reaction means those viewers will stick with it.

I think everyone in the cast was excellent. I hope the vicar isn't going to be an out and out villain and I'm very intrigued by the lady of the manor character - are these all based on real people? I thought they did George's shell shock particularly well, which can be a bit of a cliche in a drama but felt totally real to me, and his feeling for the animals. Lee Ingleby is a terrific actor.
Hopefully this book will be be re-issued or something else published.


Reared in Chester Zoo - The Story of June Mottershead
Paperback – 24 Jul 2008
by Janice Madden

It's 'silly money' on Amazon at the moment.
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Old 05-09-2014, 12:41
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Loved the show, I'm from Chester so grew up in the Zoo (literally as we lived across the road!) so it was really lovely to see my hometown so nicely portrayed. This an interesting local article from June Mottershead, there are some big spoilers about how the story goes but very interesting all the same:

http://www.chesterchronicle.co.uk/ne...-drama-7691980
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Old 05-09-2014, 16:14
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Hopefully this book will be be re-issued or something else published.


Reared in Chester Zoo - The Story of June Mottershead
Paperback – 24 Jul 2008
by Janice Madden

It's 'silly money' on Amazon at the moment.
There is a book called Our Zoo by June Mottershead that is going to be released in Oct that's a more realistic price
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Old 06-09-2014, 00:03
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She was in life on mars as Annie Cartwright.

I really like this gentle drama.
And don't forget Liz White was " The Woman In Black "... .very scary in that !
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Old 07-09-2014, 15:29
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The house is in Chester Zoo - Oakfield Manor they use it as a wedding and conference venue now.

Loved the first episode, Chester Zoo is brilliant.
They used Abney Hall in Cheadle, Stockport for at least some exterior sets. They did some damage to the flagstones outside during the shooting, which is how I know as I live close by and it was in the local paper.

The hall is surprisingly close to the Manchester ring road motorway but tucked away inside a lot of grounds. Stockport council have used it as offices in the past and I think it is still rented out that way.

It has quite a history - Agatha Christie actually spent some time there during the real time period when Our Zoo is set and wrote some of her famous stories there. She was related to the then owners, I believe.

More recently (according to a Fortean Times issue a couple of months ago) it was where there were alleged sightings of weird creatures known as 'phantom ninja dwarves' by a group of martial arts students practising in the grounds by the waterfall.

So look out for them in case they show up in the background with the other zoo animals.

Our Zoo was fantastic and deserved far more than 5.1 million viewers (OK figure as that is these days). But like most people on here I do not understand what idiot thought this series - so clearly accessible to a young family audience - was scheduled for 9 pm on a school weekday when it would have been out of bounds to many who could have enjoyed it.

Hopefully word of mouth and the near 100% approval rate will see it grow.
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Old 07-09-2014, 21:33
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I enjoyed this, I'm a member of Chester Zoo so it's cool to see the origins of the place and how it came to be.

Can't wait to see the other animals come into the village.
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Old 07-09-2014, 22:16
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Just watched this and noticed a couple of historical inaccuracies.
In the 1930s Kenya was pronounced as 'Keen-ya' not 'Ken-ya'
Also the term 'cash flow' did not come into usage until around 1950.

Other than that it was very enjoyable but, I think, more suited for Sunday evening scheduling
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Old 07-09-2014, 22:21
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Oh my god i can't believe I missed this! I thought it wasn!t starting for weeks and would be on a Sunday
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Old 07-09-2014, 22:53
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Just watched this and noticed a couple of historical inaccuracies.
In the 1930s Kenya was pronounced as 'Keen-ya' not 'Ken-ya'
Also the term 'cash flow' did not come into usage until around 1950.

Other than that it was very enjoyable but, I think, more suited for Sunday evening scheduling
The character had lived or at least spent time in Kenya so they could have used the version that was used there at that time.
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Old 08-09-2014, 10:49
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Oh my god i can't believe I missed this! I thought it wasn!t starting for weeks and would be on a Sunday
Try watching it on IPlayer
I did last evening, excellent Sunday night viewing
It was partly filmed at Walton Old Hall, near Warrington
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Old 08-09-2014, 18:56
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The character had lived or at least spent time in Kenya so they could have used the version that was used there at that time.
wikipedia says Kenya (/ˈkɛnjə/ or /ˈkiːnjə/),
"The name was long pronounced by colonial-heritage Europeans as /ˈkiːnjə/. The European pronunciation has been abandoned in modern times, in favor of the African version"
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Old 08-09-2014, 19:40
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I watched this today and really enjoyed it. Looking forward to the rest of the series.
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Old 10-09-2014, 22:18
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Love this show best show on bbc in years
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Old 10-09-2014, 22:27
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Only the second episode and they all such well defined characters it's a joy to watch but what's with the vicar? Can't work him out at all.
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Old 10-09-2014, 22:44
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Only the second episode and they all such well defined characters it's a joy to watch but what's with the vicar? Can't work him out at all.
He is the most selfish heartless vicar I have ever heard or seen before on tv
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Old 11-09-2014, 00:08
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The vicar in Jamaica Inn was much worse.
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Old 11-09-2014, 00:19
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Only the second episode and they all such well defined characters it's a joy to watch but what's with the vicar? Can't work him out at all.
The vicar didn't like being put in his place at the regimental re union when George took umbrage at the vicars pious homily on "gods will" in whether or not you survived the trenches.

Even nice family drama's need a bad guy to boo.....
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Old 11-09-2014, 07:25
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am really enjoying this, just annoying it clashes with Scott and Bailey should be on a Sunday
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