Some good bits but Jean Marsh seems really dried up and bitter and sour.

I gave up on Episode Two; irritating; no interest in the characters; badly written; so I tried Marple - awful; is it bloody Karen Thrussell again who ruined Poirot which nobody watches any more? How to wreck a franchise in one - employ Thrussell to produce it.

JK2006 wrote:
I gave up on Episode Two; irritating;

So did I ... esp when the "sympathy for the Jews" element was brought it !

I did watch the Top Gear (first time ever !) "journey from Iraq to Bethlehem" programme. What beautiful countries both Syria and Jordan are, and even the nauseous Clarkson had to admit that what they have done to Bethlehem is a travesty.

In 1933:
*Public burning of books by Jews and anti-Nazis
*Random attacks on Jews and Jewish property
*Police and the courts no longer protect Jews
*April boycotts of Jewish shops - for one day, Germans are told not to buy from shops and business owned by Jews
*SA stand by shops to discourage people from going inside
*Kosher ritual slaughter of animals banned
*Department of Racial Hygiene established

In 1934:
*Jewish students excluded from exams in medicine, dentistry, pharmacy and law
*Jews excluded from military service

In 1935:
*Nuremberg Laws deny Jews many basic civil rights
*Law for 'The Protection of German Blood and German Honour' forbade mixed marriages

And in the months leading up to the episode in question {ie late 1935 and 1936}:

*Jews no longer allowed to vote and lose German citizenship
*Benefit payments to large Jewish families stopped
*Jews banned from parks, restaurants and swimming pools
*Jews forbidden to use the German greeting 'Heil Hitler'
*Jews no longer allowed electrical/optical equipment, bicycles, typewriters or records
*Passports for Jews to travel abroad restricted
*Many Jewish students removed from German schools and universities

These are all factual pieces of anti Jewish legislation introduced by the NSDAP and noted at the time by the British Government as official German domestic policy. None of it was at any time witheld from the British public. If you deny any of this as established fact I'd like to see your evidence.
This being the case can you tell us why you think it unreasonable or {to use your own word} "irritating" for "sympathy for the Jews" to be felt and/or expressed by the characters in the screenplay. There cannot have been a single decent person alive in this country at the time who would not have been repelled by the Nazi persecution of the Jews.
It's clear from your posting history that you don't particularly like Jews. But that you actually admit to finding "sympathy for the Jews" "irritating" is in itself pretty sickening and serves as a timely reminder to me exactly why it was that a little while ago I foreswore from any further conversation with you. I think it's time for me to revert to that position.

And what the *** has Jeremy Clarkson got to do with it?

Locked Out wrote:
can you tell us why you think it unreasonable or {to use your own word} "irritating" for "sympathy for the Jews" to be felt and/or expressed by the characters in the screenplay.

Yet again - more pandering to the Jews !
WHY should we bow down and pander to this tiny minority (and promote pro-Jew propaganda, whilst being silenced on the real truth by so-called "anti-semite" claims?) - esp when you consider that they have been kicked out of virtually every country on Earth at some time or another.

Is that OUR fault - or does that say something about the Jews ?

There cannot have been a single decent person alive in this country at the time who would not have been repelled by the Nazi persecution of the Jews.

"Israel" has had MORE condemnations (by the UN) than ANY other "nation" on Earth (even allowing for the numerous times they were "protected" by their financiers the USA). Why do you think that is so?

Whilst the Holocaust of the Palestinians is going on I will not be silenced.
Those that remain silent are complicit !
All it takes for evil to take hold is for a good few men to remain silent (but, of course, that is their intention, isn't it?)!

And what the *** has Jeremy Clarkson got to do with it?

Did you see the programme? (Obviously not). They I suggest you watch it.