Saturday, June 16, 2007

Who killed Mrs De Ropp?


As a general rule I am not a big fan of television, but the late night insomniac wasteland occasionally throws up something interesting. Part of BBC4's Edwardian season, Who Killed Mrs De Ropp? was based on Saki/H.H. Munro's short stories The Lumber Room, The Storyteller, and Sredni Vashtar. It was lovely and macabre, with some interesting animation to boot.



It almost made up for not being able to sleep.. almost.

5 comments:

Joel Stewart said...

I very much wish I'd known about it, since I was up all night too...

Oh, but you said it was BBC4. I don't have that anyway.

Crista Noel Smith said...

The site is a bit insipid, but there are clips from the show here.

Joel Stewart said...

Oh!

I liked the pigs.

The narrator made me thing of capt. clyde jackson.

Thanks so much for the silly music, if I didn't say so elsewhere, or if I did...

Crista Noel Smith said...

ha! "His reward is the canoe."

Glad you liked it..

Joel Stewart said...

The things I 'thing' of...