A very English scandal - Jeremy Thorpe

[anonymous-user]

MYOB said:

Not to those who were born during or after the events.

Fair enough.

It's a right cliffhanger. For those that don't know what happens this week will be like Terry and Bob avoiding the England score, but for a whole week.

[NDA]

vixen1700 said:

J
I do remember the trial when I was a kid in the 70s and remember the references to 'Bunny' being all over the papers.

Me too - I grew up in North Devon too, so Thrope (with thanks to Peter Cook) was our local MP.

For those who might not know, this sketch by Cook satirised the trial and was a very famous sketch at time as it got as close to the wire as you were allowed to in those days:

https://youtu.be/Kyos-M48B8U

[anonymous-user]

NDA said:

Me too - I grew up in North Devon too, so Thrope (with thanks to Peter Cook) was our local MP.

For those who might not know, this sketch by Cook satirised the trial and was a very famous sketch at time as it got as close to the wire as you were allowed to in those days:

https://youtu.be/Kyos-M48B8U

Contains spoilers.
But it really is excellent.

[crofty1984]

MYOB said:

ClaphamGT3 said:

gooner1 said:

desolate said:

Surely a bit difficult to have a spoiler when it's based on reality?

Not really.
Admittedly most people of a certain age will know the outcome, a lot of younger
ones may not.

I for one was not aware of every facet of this case.

Its general knowledge ffs......

Not to those who were born during or after the events.

I've never heard of it.

[coppice]

I'm being reminded of those quiz contestants who , when asked who the Beatles were, or who attacked Pearl Harbour say 'sorry, that was before my time'.

[Dr Jekyll]

coppice said:

I'm being reminded of those quiz contestants who , when asked who the Beatles were, or who attacked Pearl Harbour say 'sorry, that was before my time'.

I don't think you can really compare someone shooting a great Dane with the attack on Pearl Harbour.

Nevertheless it is strange how so little is made of this compared with the Profumo scandal which was, and still is, blown up out of all proportion. Presumably the acquittal made it difficult to comment on what really might have happened.

[The Mad Monk]

Dr Jekyll said:

Nevertheless it is strange how so little is made of this compared with the Profumo scandal which was, and still is, blown up out of all proportion.

The British secretary of State for War using the services of a prostitute whom, amongst her other customers could include the Soviet military Attache to Britain?

I don't think you could blow that out of proportion.

[Dr Jekyll]

The Mad Monk said:

The British secretary of State for War using the services of a prostitute whom, amongst her other customers could include the Soviet military Attache to Britain?

I don't think you could blow that out of proportion.

It was though. It was implied that Christine Keeler was some kind of spy for the KGB when no intelligence agency would have employed her to make the tea.

There were discreet comments in gossip columns about 'his Rover pulling up at the front just as the Zil is driving away at the back' so it was clearly known about in high places.

Then the Express (I think) got hold of it because at a time of spy fever the combination of sex, a minister, and the soviet military attaché was a good story, and also because the paper's editor was having a feud with the Astors, who owned the Cliveden estate where Profumo and Keeler met.

Incidentally the notion of Stephen Ward living off Keeler's and Rice-Davies' immoral earnings was absurd. He was supporting them not the other way round.

[anonymous-user]

Dr Jekyll said:

The Mad Monk said:

The British secretary of State for War using the services of a prostitute whom, amongst her other customers could include the Soviet military Attache to Britain?

I don't think you could blow that out of proportion.

It was though. It was implied that Christine Keeler was some kind of spy for the KGB when no intelligence agency would have employed her to make the tea.

There were discreet comments in gossip columns about 'his Rover pulling up at the front just as the Zil is driving away at the back' so it was clearly known about in high places.
.

She was doing unmentionables then ?
It sounds like DP to me

[The Mad Monk]

Woss DP?

[gooner1]

The Mad Monk said:

Woss DP?

Double Penetration.

Do they teach you nowt in that monastery?

[PurpleTurtle]

Am enjoying the show, Hugh Grant is excellent, I know he's somewhat typecast but he really does do 'Pompous Toff' extraordinarily well.

Good to see Neil from The Inbetweeners somewhat more diversified! Likewise Ben Wishaw is always excellent.

The Triumph Stag in last night's ep was lovely. Such a shame that had its engine overheating issues, I always thought it should have been much more succesful, a very elegant car for its time.

[tim0409]

I really enjoyed that; an extremely well executed drama, and the actors were superb.

I'm recording the BBC 4 programme that follows, which should be interesting and contains unseen footage.

[Randy Winkman]

I really liked it to. The judge's summing up was unbelievable. Presumably it was verbatim. Haven't watched the documentary that followed it yet though.

[megaphone]

The BBC4 1979 Panorama programme that followed was very interesting, worth a look. One thing it did show was how accurate the drama was.

[rdjohn]

Easily the best thing on TV this year, Hugh Grant was brilliant, of course, but the supporting cast and production were all excellent.

I think if it had been put forward as a work of pure fiction, people would have thought that it was too far-fetched.

[Mark-C]

megaphone said:

The BBC4 1979 Panorama programme that followed was very interesting, worth a look. One thing it did show was how accurate the drama was.

Thoroughly enjoyed the series and recorded the BBC4 program for later.

[The Mad Monk]

There can be no doubt. The British do farce best.

Heddlu coppers travel 150 miles to Dorking to find that Scott is not in!

Why are the Welsh police involved in this?

There is a survey going round at the moment - what it means to be English.

THIS is what it means to be English!.

[RemyMartin81D]

Randy Winkman said:

I really liked it to. The judge's summing up was unbelievable. Presumably it was verbatim. Haven't watched the documentary that followed it yet though.

Made famous by a sketch performed by Peter Cook.

[vixen1700]

Great stuff, really enjoyed this.