highpriestess32

This is a good documentary series. In 1986 or thereabouts, I was the daughter of an army officer in Berkshire whereby a wheelchair marathon was hosted on the parade ground as the finishing line. Savile was less 'Savile Row' but more gold tracksuit.

My late father was keen on slimline cigars at the time and he asked me to hand JS his last cigar and get his autograph. JS was sat behind a sort of school desk after the marathon. I was 16-years-old but looked like 13 I suppose. He stared at my (still) prepubescent chest, eyed me up and down and asked me straight out "Are you passionately in love with me?"

When the allegations first broke I had no doubt as to his demeanour nor his guilt. He was allowed access to places that people, even celebrities, should have been restricted from. He had a God Complex and was hiding in plain sight.

I noted that a certain TV station were running 'The Darling Buds of May' concurrently with 'The Larkins' and I was excited to see a remake. However, the acting is certainly very wooden and the timeline is inaccurate in keeping with the basic facts of H. E Bates' written works. Although good to see a multi-cultural cast, I am not sure if this truly reflective of 1950's Kent. Another distasteful addition is the use of modern slang so I don't know what the writers were hoping to achieve but it. Somewhat tarnishes the innocence and floaty feeling in the aforementioned TV series. The only character that resembles Pam Ferris is the new Ma Larkin (given that Pam Ferris was very well chosen going by the books), but all other characters are really quite forgettable. A big disappointment.