World Holocaust Day 27 January 2022

[John Wright]

1 hour ago, Ghost Ship said:

I didn't know they were brothers.

Nigel Kneale also wrote the very creepy The Stone Tape - which I used to have on a BBC DVD but lost when we moved house - and of course The Year of the Sex Olympics, which I'm too young to remember but which apparently forecast the living hell that is now reality television.

[Edit:  Just looking at Wikipedia to check the date of the Sex Olympics - 1968, and I wouldn't remember it because we didn't have BBC2 then and I was too young - and I see he also scripted an episode of Kavanagh QC dealing with the experience of a Jewish woman surviving a concentration camp.]

Never met Nigel. I’ve a couple of Bryan’s water colours and a small sculpture.

[Andy Onchan]

On 2/21/2022 at 11:38 AM, John Wright said:

There was also his idiosyncratic and inconsistent use of 12, 24, am, pm time recording.

700 in the morning

7.00 am

07.00 in the evening

0930

all within 2 pages.

 

That's pure Capt Mainwaring that is...... fits in neatly with the likes of his "GCH Quarters Q". 🤣

[John Wright]

33 minutes ago, Andy Onchan said:

That's pure Capt Mainwaring that is...... fits in neatly with the likes of his "GCH Quarters Q". 🤣

There is some interesting stuff. But I found it strangely dissatisfying by then end, and the basic errors, and, sometimes,  flowery language and jumping from place to place and story to story, seems poor, stylistically speaking.

I was aware of the Fleischman/Midgley story. And it is interesting. But the author glosses over the post camp release, Royal College of Art, translating at other camps, being called up, return to Berlin, finding “family” and attending Nuremberg.

I know it’s about Hutchinson Camp, in theory. But that’s less than 25% of the book.