Ethel And Ernest.

[Togo]

Anyone watching Ethel & Ernest? It is brilliantly done.

[Mamyalynne]

I bet it did, yes.

[Togo]

Ah Nell, So glad you enjoyed it. I remember my grandparents stlll having the bomb shelter on my Grandad's allotment(about 50 yards from their house because there was no room in the back of a terraced house). Grandad would not dismantle it until about 8 years after the war. Just in case. He used it as a winter store for onions and spuds and the like. I can still smell it if I close my eyes and concentrate.

[NellieMay]

Funny Togo that we can smell smells from so long ago. My grandparents were greengrocers and if I go into a greengrocers now (a proper one) I am taken back in time. I can also smell the beetroots boiling in a copper in the back yard of the shop, which was also their home.

[jourdain2]

Thanks for BA, Togo. Mr J2 was equally enthralled, especially by such detail as the dado rail division on the stair wall - and the then ubiquitous anaglypta below it. He was also an evacuee and it brought the whole experience back - except that he was sent to Swansea, where he had a great time watching the bombs raining down on the docks and refineries!

[hc4361]

I loved the film but I won't watch it again. I thought it magical and a repeat viewing might ruin the magic for me.

I could never watch Schindler's List a second time - the impact would not be so great; nor The Exorcist which I watched as a teen in case it comes across as hammy.

As well as remembered smells I have remembered touch. I can be concentrating on a book, tv, whatever and I will suddenly feel my long dead dog's foot pads on my hands or her scrabbling on to my lap; or get the sensation of a horse's velvety muzzle with that hot grassy smell of the breath. Very weird

[grumpy01]

I thought it was great too.I also enjoyed call the Midwife .As for a lot of the rest,well.

[hc4361]

I enjoyed Call the Midwife, too, but it is keeping me awake at night. I can't get the Pata Pata song they played on it out of my head

[Togo]

Must admit we also enjoyed the Ag Christie "Witness for the Prosecution". A bit dark in parts but once again the beeb got the costumes and décor spot on. Why they don't stick to that instead of wanting to be a political party is beyond me.

[horselady]

I loved it, brought back memories of a London I used to go to as a child to stay with grandparents and aunts, I remember how enthralled I was by the fact that the buses were red.

[chessington]

I taped it, will watch it soon

[Eleena]

Hi Togo, I loved it, how fantastic animation can be! A lovely snapshot of another era. I did think the images of the deaths could have been left to the imagination though. I recommended this to a couple of people and I wish I'd seen it first.