The handsome and debonair Lord Peter Wimsey and the lovely Miss Harriet Vane together in fiction forever!

I am crying!! Lovely job. Amazing how much two fine actors can say with a glance.

Both perfect in the roles.

This a lovely tribute to one my very favorite couples in fiction. Such good music for the story!

@educatedinyellow8189

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for sending this lovely comment, I'm so happy you enjoyed the vid! Yes, when I heard that song for the first time I thought of Peter and Harriet, too -- it felt right for them :)

Your music makes this romance even steamier! Very nice.

Absolutely lovely!!

I love this, thank you so much.

So sweetly done, Lovely 🙏❤️👏🏻

Ooh, that was delicious, beautifully done. Thank you @Educated In Yellow, it was absolutely wonderful.. Best wishes from Wales.

Love this!! Thank you!❤️

Lovely! Just finished watching Lord Peter Wimsey on KZread. ❤❤🌹

That is beautiful. A. Perfect meld of music and pictures.

Very enjoyable, thank you!

This is adorable. Thank you!

Thank you for this, it's wonderful!

I saw somewhere that there is an American version of 'Busman's Honeymoon' , called, I think, 'Busman's Holiday', I don't know whether it's on KZread, I'll have to do a search! I really enjoy the four Wimsey/Vane stories Sayers wrote and the three continuations by Jill Paton Walsh which really are 'seamless' and reread them over and over (together with all the other Wimsey books)

"I could find the whole meaning of life in those sad eyes." OMG. Talk about building on quicksand. Sometimes romance is so damn foolish.

@educatedinyellow8189

2 жыл бұрын

Have you seen this miniseries or read the books it's based on by Dorothy Sayers? I ask because they grapple seriously with the question you raise (especially the books). Peter instantly decides he's in love and asks Harriet to marry him literally the first time they meet. Like you, and any reasonable person, Harriet takes this as evidence that he's building on quicksand. Much of the series is about watching them get to know each other, work together, get a clearer measure of one another intellectually and emotionally, and question extensively whether anything real could ever be built between them given the problems built into their history and interpersonal dynamics (i.e. his insta-love and her distrust of it; the power imbalance involved when she owes him her life for having cleared her of murder and Does Not Want to fall into the trap of feeling she owes him love as a kind of gratitude or debt payment; etc.) Obviously as you can see in the vid, eventually they do manage to build a real relationship without falling into those traps -- whether or not you'd like it, I don't know, but it is one of the most interrogated literary romances I've ever come across -- the characters really do raise and discuss these issues in depth.

I enjoyed watching the series withe Edward Petherbridge and Harriet Walter. Exquisitely filmed and superbly acted. Why wasn't the Busman's honeymoon filmed?

@educatedinyellow8189

3 жыл бұрын

It's a lovely adaptation, I agree -- both the leads are first rate! Edward Petherbridge mentions in an interview that the project was developed from the beginning as a three-book endeavor. I don't know why they never considered doing Busman's Honeymoon -- maybe they felt they wouldn't get the budget for it (Petherbridge mentions the producer even cut Gaudy Night down from four episodes to three), or maybe they felt that once the romantic "will they/won't they" was resolved that they would lose audience interest (always a silly mistake, but one congenital to TV producers, I find!) Petherbridge has some very interesting behind the scenes memories to share here: vulpeslibris.wordpress.com/2008/09/23/not-as-dorothy-would-have-liked-it/

@grumpyphoenix

3 жыл бұрын

@@educatedinyellow8189 Was that what happened to Gaudy Night?! There was so much available in the book that wasn't done.

@educatedinyellow8189

3 жыл бұрын

@@grumpyphoenix I know, isn't it a shame?! You might enjoy reading that article I linked to in the comment above. Petherbridge is pretty upfront in saying that he considers Gaudy Night the least successful of their adaptations and adds that the original script they received for it was so bad that he and Harriet Walter agreed it was unfilmable -- they were scripted to resolve their romance in a throw-away line in the middle of the mystery with no dramatic weight whatsoever! -- and they refused to perform it. The two actors were the ones who came up with the version of the engagement/kiss scene that ends the episode, and they did it by sitting in a cramped side room poring over the book while the techs set up the lighting for the scene. It's amazing that it turned out as well as it did, given the lack of care apparently given to the story by those in charge. I was happy to learn, though, that Edward Petherbridge did star as Peter Wimsey in the stage play of Busman's Honeymoon in 1988 (the year after this TV series aired), with his real-life wife Emily Richard playing Harriet opposite him. So clearly he felt the need to see the story through, and I'm so pleased he and his wife did that together! I only wish a film of the performance were available. As you may know, the play of Busman's Honeymoon predated the novel -- Dorothy Sayers and her friend Muriel St. Clare Byrne first wrote the script for the play, then Sayers later adapted it into her final Wimsey/Vane novel.

@grumpyphoenix

3 жыл бұрын

@@educatedinyellow8189 I did not know that, about the play, although I can certainly see how it was adapted from one. I think it's my second favorite of the four books, Gaudy Night being the first. I'm so glad that the actors cared enough about the story to try to save it.

@shvat26

3 жыл бұрын

I believe there was a copyright problem (in addition to other possible causes) blocking the filming.

Love this-can you say who are the singers, please?

@educatedinyellow8189

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! Yes, certainly -- the song is "You Matter to Me," written by Sara Bareilles, performed by Alex G. and Nathanial Green. You can find their video of themselves singing the song here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/e5-Wrch6lrGpcrw.html

@dianeearnshaw7301

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Lord Simp, master simper

My least favorite of all the Peter Wimsey films, esp. with Petherbridge.