The Bletchley Circle

I do hope they bring this back it was as Hunt says a 'cracking' good programme...

Just remembered that this thread was originally about the Bletchley Park girls. Cracking good programme, do hope they find the girls another problem soon.

I don't know why ,with so many of us still around, they don't run some of these series past us before they broadcast. My Mum made all our clothes including tailored jackets and no way would she have let us wear anything as sloppily made as Ruth's red winter coat or the check jacket. We could teach them a thing or two about how to tie a headscarf so that it stayed tidy and ,if you look at old footage from this era , not everyone wore headscarves all the time. They can't mention everything but we children used to get paid so much a pound for acorns to feed the pigs in the pig club. Incidently I find it hugely enjoyable!

Still have to watch last night's episode of Good Cop, and haven't seen any of the Bletchley Park yet. Hope I can get it on 'catch-up'! Wartime farm is fascinating - last night's episode with all the ladies wearing their turban headscarves reminded me of my mum and her friends, who always wore their scarves like that on washday, to keep their hair off their faces in the steam. Any other day my mother would wear her scarf tied under her chin to go out to the shops.

I watched it on +1 after Good Cop. After endless sport on TV, they are throwing so much good drama at us all at once I can't keep up.

I don't think we saw any suggestion of wife-beating in last week's episode, tanith, you didn't miss anything. I really enjoyed this week's episode as well, although I do get annoyed by the trailers for next week - they give away too much!

sorry a couple of sp errors in there..

Just as good as the first episode only better IYSWIM... I to hope it doesn't end in tears , I'm hoping they make a complete series... didn't realise that poor girl was being beaten by her nasty husband I must of missed that last week. Some of the terminology goes over my head, and the men are annoyingly stupid.

Tonight's episode - oo-er!! Hope this doesn't end in tears!!! Scary!

I thought it was a great change and very good TV can't wait for the next episode,I remember my mum wearing a hat every Sat/Sunday went we went to visit family but during the week she had the most amazing collection of headscarf's.Gracesmum I think the style of the "rolled fringe" gives the "Wilma" effect don't you ??

You could hide a multitude of sins under those headscarves. We'd be a terrorist risk these days.

Just watched on ITV Player thought it was really good.

Or scarves. All the heritage (old) documentaries they've had on recently show practically every woman with a headscarf in cold weather. Even in my youth (the 60s) we all wore headscarves to keep our beehives in order.

And I still think the women would have worn hats out of doors!

Ha Ha, gracesmum. I won't be able to look at her without thinking of Wilma Flintstone now.

Just finished watching it on ITV player - and really enjoyed it despite the constant interruptions. The "hat" business annoys me as my father always used to wear a hat and would doff it to ladies as he passed, hold it in his hand until he was outside and if wearing it, raise it to give Mum a peck on the cheek. Directors need to do their homework or else ask me to heklp with the production values! I also think Susan would have been very unlikely to wear dark red nail polish, given her character as respectable perfect wife and mother! Does anybody else think she looks like Fred Flintstone's wife(is it Wilma)??

It was on ITV and yes I watched it on catch up or whatever.

Bottoms! Been away and missed it! Which channel? Can I iplayer it?

I've just finished watching BPark, but I wasn't keen and usually I love this sort of programme.
I thought it was just too unbelievable.

I enjoyed Wartime Farm merlot,and the previous 'Farms'. Those three really get stuck in to the hard work don't they?

Its very good its not what I expected it to be as I didn't read the scenario past the Bletchley Circle title. All the early 1950s settings are entertaining. the idea that these very clever woman who had been doing important and challenging war work having to go back to being home makers and feeling rather bored is great. I like the deductive bits as well. A detective series with a twist and men in hats! Its hard to imagine now how formal things used to be..

We also enjoyed, Wartime Farm, Lilygran which was on earlier. I loved both Victorian and Edwardian Farm and this one looks promising.

Really enjoyed it. Good idea, very good acting, good characters. Yes, the dialogue is quite often 'off' but spotting the anachronisms is an additional pleasure! Why do the men who wear hats (not counting uniform) in these 1950s dramas always keep them on indoors?

It was fantastic, DH and I both loved it, puzzles, murder, Bletchley Park. Brilliant, can't wait for next one. I have to stop myself from getting upset though at how women were treated back then. Reminds me a bit of my mum who would 'sit adoringly at the feet of the man she loved'. Took me years to get over that role model, bless her.

I missed this, don't know how as there was nothing else on! I shall catch up later, it sounds good.

Thanks merlot that is my favourite era in history,I love to read about the community spirit and pulling together and the bravery and stoicism of our country.xx