Any one watch Dalgliesh and notice the £5 notes?

Yes DH and I both noticed, they certainly did look like new £5 notes.

I saw some notes, but thought they were £1 ones, but I did think they looked a bit modern.

Yes we did.

Yes, there were a couple of blips, I thought.
However, I thought Bertie Carvel was excellent as Dalgliesh

I enjoyed it. Set in 1970s. I was struck by that nurse saying that she was leaving as she was marrying and 'they' don't want to employ married women. Nonsense. My sister was a nurse in the 70s and she was married as were many of her nursing colleagues.

I remember some of my teachers back in the 1950s being married, too.

I had to check when Dalgliesh was set as it felt as if it was more 1940s/1950s than 1970s.

Although the sideburns were very 1970s!

Calistemon

Yes, there were a couple of blips, I thought.
However, I thought Bertie Carvel was excellent as Dalgliesh

Phwoarrr! ??

Calm down, dear!
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I think that it is always difficult to pick up the baton when another actor has previously been identified with the character - I have always thought Joan Hickson to be the quintessential Miss Marple for example. However, I thought that Bertie Carvel was an excellent Dalgliesh.

I enjoyed it though some things weren't quite right about the 70's. I started nurse training in 1974 in Edinburgh. The uniforms were similar. The nasogastric tube was much bigger than would be passed though one of our class had to volunteer to have it performed in practical lessons. The big size of tube was used if you had to have a stomach washout for an overdose. The doctor was similar to the consultants at the time. Toffee nosed and pompous and went to the right schools in Edinburgh! I thought the police sergeant? was a bit behind the times. There was a lot of sex went on between doctors and nurses in the hospital. Not sure if that happens now in the new buildings and the doctors are much more approachable and not so hoity toity. Nicer to patients and more appreciative of their colleagues. My friend and I qualified and moved to Isle of Wight to do our midwifery training and it was completely different. Social interactions between staff better and patient knowledge better - patient's questioned staff about treatments so you had to know what you were talking about. In Edinburgh it was like doctor knows best. Don't ask questions. In fact when I retired 3 years ago there were still some hoity toity toffs who looked down their noses at nurses though at my age and stage I would question and not stand undermining attitudes. All in all I think it did reflect the 70's. Probably police were much the same as doctors all in all.

Aveline I don't remember any of my fellow students being married but maybe some of the staff nurses and sisters were though a lot were single. Some of the nursing officers (matrons) lived in the Nurse's Home. One had an evil grey cat that hid behind flower pots in a covered corridor in the home and pounced at unsuspecting students when they went for breaks! My Mum had to stop work when she began to show when pregnant with me in the 50's. That was the done thing in those days.

Yes i did notice,but i it down to having a little too much wine.
So clearly i didn`t have a little too much,happy days.

Aveline

I enjoyed it. Set in 1970s. I was struck by that nurse saying that she was leaving as she was marrying and 'they' don't want to employ married women. Nonsense. My sister was a nurse in the 70s and she was married as were many of her nursing colleagues.

It did used to be the case though, and believe it all changed in the late 60s, when Nurses were allowed to be married, although think it depended on Matron, whose word was law in those days. I was certainly married when I started in the late 70s. Must watch this new Dalgleish as enjoyed the original series.

I really enjoyed it and I too noticed the modern notes. Did anyone notice the modern radiator in the flat of the lady in the ball gown, who made the sergeant dance with her?

My mother was a midwifery sister, who reluctantly gave up her job on her marriage in 1952. Including her, there were four nursing sisters in the maternity hospital, all unmarried. They looked very much like the ones in the programme except their uniforms were all white. Mum always used their surnames, not their Christian names, when she reminisced.

She married my father, the ambulance driver, who used to accompany her to the remote farms to deliver the babies.

The tube incident reminded me of the time my mum need a barium meal for an investigation. Initially she refused, because she remembered the tube and funnel from her early nursing days and assumed nothing had changed from then.
She got a pleasant surprise, when she was given a drink and that was all that was required.

I have to say, I still have a soft spot for Roy Marsden.

Bertie Carvel reminds me of Ben Miller, and I'd much rather have Ben Miller any day. He's been doing that Professor T series which I didn't like, which is a shame.

Never thought Roy Marsden was particularly attractive, but can distinctly remember in one of the old episodes, he kissed someone, one of the suspects probably.

My opinion of him changed somewhat, he looked a great kisser!

But those ears though! Much prefer Bertie Carvel.

I had to look up when the book was published -1971. I think it was a mistake to set it in the 70s so many things changed in that decade. Late 60s would have been better and would have fitted in with the storyline. I didn't spot the notes.
I was thinking I wonder what response you would get if you suggested a student nurse should be a guinea pig for a training session today?

I recently re-read all the Dalgleish books by P D James. I watched both episodes of Shroud for a Nightingale last night. Gosh, what a lot was missed out, including characters, and they slightly changed the end!

The first murder was the most shocking I'd ever seen in TV. It's hard to imagine many more characters!
In what way was the ending altered?
All in all I'm looking forward to next week's episodes.

That’s interesting Ladyleftfieldlover. I seem to remember 6 episodes per book for the Roy Marsden series whereas only 2 for this one so assumed some was cut and you confirm it. More info please.

We made the mistake of buying the old Dalgliesh series on DVD. They are unbelievably tediously long and needed serious editing. They involve lots of driving cars around, parking, walking around. They have not aged well....

Thank you for starting this thread or I would have missed this series.

Did anyone notice in last night’s episode, that the woman officer who was called “Sergeant” by her Detective Inspector was wearing an Inspector’s uniform when speaking to Dalgliesh?
(DH was a policeman).