Rillington Place: anyone watching?

I said the same wot but I assume she was scared of him. Also why did he never admit to killing Geraldine.
Poor Tim indeed. He was pardoned but the conviction was sadly never quashed it said.

Go along

How could Christies wife to along with it?

Poor, poor man. "Christie done it!". Poor Timothy .

I've just realised that the best thing about this programme is the lack of background music! All that horror and suspense generated by a good script and fine actors and no need to bump it up with scary music, I wish other producers would take the hint.

Ah yes Elegran my mistake.

No it wouldn't have worked Ana, very South Wales at that time, still is with many

Oh, I see - never heard it used with that meaning before! Trouble is, neither would the rest of the viewers apart from South Wales ones...so it wouldn't really have worked.

calling her over means bad mouthing her

Pardon?

What she may had said I don't know, what she was most likely to say - you've been calling her over.

And there again, how on earth would the scriptwriters know which words she actually used?

That use in 1941 was James Thurber in the Saturday Evening Post - an American publication headquartered in Indianapolis, not anywhere in the UK.

It seems to have come from West Africa, via African Americans and/or the Caribbean, into the general American language. While it is possible that it was used by some people in the UK at that time, Tim's mother doesn't seem a likely person to have been saying it. She may have had links to African Americans or GI's, of course.

Bad mouth (ing) was first used in 1941 according to google, couldn't find when new-build first occurred. Interesting.

Even rewatching some of this on Gogglebox was chilling!!

And Deedaa, David Blakley her victim had caused the miscarriage by hitting her in the stomach. I think Ellis was hanged because she was a peroxide , nightclub worker of easy virtue , more of a crime than murder in the fifties , today I doubt she would have even had a long prison sentence, poor woman

I've just remembered that we used to have 'Intelligence Tests' during the last year at primary school.

I don't think any of us realised what that actually meant - we thought it was all part and parcel of being in the final year!

My mother's view on Ruth Ellis was that she had recently had a miscarriage and might have been affected mentally by that.

Well Anniebach having met various friends /neighbours /acquaintances over the years with children with varying degrees of learning difficulties they would be less able than Evans was coming across in the play To me it wasn't obvious he had learning difficulties

You're right Deedaa we did have IQ tests as part of the 11 plus I remember that but we weren't given an IQ score, well we weren't in my school anyway

Yet Bently didn't take a life, Ellis did ,

I heard one character ending an argument by saying "whatever" which would never have happened.

I can remember IQ tests at school in the early 50s, an IQ test was part of the !! plus.

My parents also had no time for Derek Bentley and thought he was no loss, but my mother was strongly against the hanging of Ruth Ellis.

I think both phrases are fairly recent additions to UK language and certainly wouldn't have been used in the forties/fifties.

New build I don't know if this was used in England, but bad mouthing was not used in South Wales mining areas

Moving on from the dodgy accent. Two phrases were used that struck me as odd.
1 . New build ( when Tim said they wouldn't be staying long and hoped to get a house)
2 . Bad- mouthing. ( Tim's mother telling him not to speak badly about his wife)
We're these phrases really used at that time? They seem modern or American to me.

Off topic but we mustn't forget Derek Bentley abd Ruth Ellis .

I think Kennedy said Evans couldn't read or write . This week Chistie brought Evans a notice and Evans asked Christie to read it to him

Bluebell, I don't understand what you think a person with learning difficulties should look like or act