Thanks so much for your account, though can you comment on Tom Stoppard's "scripted adaptation"?
Barry
On Sat, 25 Aug 2012 19:01:49 +0100, David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>It was broadcast last night and although the acting and direction is very
>forceful I couldn't help noticing the weakness of the conception of
>Tietjens as a 'super-intellect' which is present in the book. Considering
>the current attacks on social welfare, the book's ludicrous portrayal of
>matters around the inception of state pensions is somewhat creepy. Even
>Shakespeare's history plays are more reliable as history than this, and
>Ford was writing of events within a few years of writing. Its handling of
>suffragette issues is more sympathetic. I imagine its High Tory fantasy
>view of the Edwardian gentleman would appeal to Carcanet.
>Ford was an outstanding editor, an agreeable minor poet, a charming and
>unreliable relater of memoirs and gossip, and an indifferent if persistent
>novelist who has an undeserved posthumous reputation as a modernist
>classic. This was 'Downton Abbey' for would-be intellectuals. Underneath
>its Empire veneer lurked some very unrealistic views on welfare that
>wouldn't be too strange to todays' conservatives.
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>On 25 August 2012 18:16, Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> My "publisher" Carcanet alerts me to this possibility today via its
>> E-letter. However, even though the likely broadcaster here within Wash DC
>> (WETA, channel 26/1-4) has recently added an all-UK, mostly BBC channel to
>> its cast of stations, Wuthering Heights will be streaming at 9PM EDT, not
>> Parade's End. Alas. Any suggestions, though I imagine if the FMF
>> adaptation has no major problems, it may eventually be made available for
>> viewing by WETA-TV.
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>> Actually, now that I've checked the time in London, a 4PM stream of
>> Parade's End would not be viewed by the local station here as a desirable
>> time for their first broadcast of this work.
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>> I've published about Ford Madox Ford's legendary editing skills, loved
>> Parades' End when I read it as a graduate student, and have collected his
>> first editions for many years. His poetry problematic in an intriguing way,
>> but I had repeated success teaching it within a course I taught regularly,
>> Modern British Poetry.
>>
>> Barry
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