Any one watch Dalgliesh and notice the £5 notes?

I have not managed to stay awake through any episode yet.

This could mean:

a) I am tired by 9.30 and ready for bed or,

b) I have not been riveted by the plot so far.

Sadly, I think it’s the latter.

Thank you Mapleleaf.

Oh was she not a detective? I think saying her DI made me think she was also a detective.

joannapiano

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).

Detectives were all plain clothes in the force where I worked.

Channel 5 AGAA4

We did try to watch this, but found it so boring and slow. It was like a ‘ Miss Marple’ on a Sunday afternoon.

Where is this on please. Which channel?

Have watched both eps of Shroud for a Nightingale. I personally found it all rather stilted and much preferred Roy Marsden’s portrayal.

PD James worked in hospital administration, I think in the 50/60s, and wrote in her spare time.
I think she based a lot of her novels on experiences that were rather out-of-date by the time her novels were published. I read them - actually don't think she's a patch on other detective writers - and got quite irritated by some of the things she got wrong.
I do think that the issue about married women working was patchy - where I live there wouldn't have been any teachers or nurses if the married women hadn't worked!

They made a very clear mistake with the bank notes in episode 2.
The library book date label clearly states 19 Jan 1975, but the Sir Isaac Newton £1 note didn't come into circulation until 1978, and those had light grey guilloches. On later, revised notes, the guilloches were bright green, as used in Dalgliesh!
The radiator is seen about 15 seconds after Mrs Dettinger opens the door to Masterson. It's not ultra modern, but certainly looks more recent than 1975!
A pedant? Moi? Yeah, it looks that way doesn’t it!

I thought the Roy Marsden Shround for a Nightingale was far superior to the newest version, which seemed to wrap up the whole mystery far too quickly. And I don't like the Dalgleish characterisation. I know he is meant to be a deep-thinking, serious person but this new Dalgleish is just plain dull in my opinion.

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).

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

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....

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.

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.

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!

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?

But those ears though! Much prefer Bertie Carvel.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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 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.