My boy Jack ~ Harry Potter

[Warden]

What ho everyone, who saw "My boy Jack" on TV for Remembrance Day?

Made Mrs W cry even though we knew what happend to Jack Kipling as Wimpole Hall, his sisters home is only a few miles from where we live and has a small exhibition on Jack Kipling.

Strange to see Harry Potter in the trenches

Harry

 

[Twinkle]

I watched it and it made me very angry and sad at the futility of war and how we sent so many gallent young men to their death in the rotting trenches.

I thought it was very well composed and his mother and sister gave fantastic performances.

It was particually interesting from our families point of view as the man who helped Kippling get Jack (John) into the Army was Field Marshal Roberts (later Lord Roberts), my great grandfather was his bat man and we have photos of them together at home.

Did anyone get what the motor bike was, we were trying to work out what make it was and couldn't

As an aside, I am going at lunch to the Cenotaph to lay my poppy to remember, I also sold poppies door to door for the first time this year for the Royal British Legion.

PS - Wimpole Hall is lovely, not been there for years, must go again.

 

[Camille]

Daniel Radcliffe is old enough to grow a moustasche now?! Gods, time does move fast, doesn't it?

I was actually googling WW1-uniforms the other day and came across that pictures. I thought he looked familiar but I don't think I ever would have made that connection without somebody actually telling me it was him.

Anyway, was the movie any good?

 

[Lady Day]

Hes an actor, who is doing his darndest to not forever be pigeon holed as a boy wizard. I commend him for that.

LD

 

[Barbigirl]

Hes an actor, who is doing his darndest to not forever be pigeon holed as a boy wizard. I commend him for that.

LD

I agree, and a coo coo cachoo to boot for Daniel Radcliffe.

 

[Fleur De Guerre]

Oh poop. I saw this advertised then forgot to watch it. I hope it's repeated!

 

[Mojito]

I hope this is aired down here - I read the book "My Boy Jack", which contains some remarkable detective work questioning the recent idenification of John Kipling's body, and thought it so utterly moving and so tragic - and so terribly representative of the grief of many families. Some of Rudyard's shorter, epigrammic poems on the subject of war, after Jack's loss, strike me as some of the most infinitely poignant words ever written on warfare.

How amazing that you have a personal connection to the story, Twinkle! I'd love to see the photos if you ever scan them.

 

[carter]

I'd like to see this program. Wonder if it will ever be aired in the US. Perhaps it will become available on DVD.

I must find the book and read it.

Has anyone else read 11th Month 11th Day 11th Hour by Joseph E. Persico? It was published in the US by Random House in 2004. It is a tragic account of the last days of WWI and the thousands of men who lost their lives on Armistice Day even though the Generals knew the fighting would end at precisely 11:00 AM.
Richard Norton Smith, executive director of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, wrote, "This is the single finest work I have read on the Great War."

 

[Micawber]

I believe the article in the Radio Times which was written by Radcliffe said the moustache was care of the make up department and that they had trouble with it during the filming of the scenes in the rain.

I agree, it was a moving programme. Not that many years ago veterans from the Great War were common, now there are just a handful. Time does indeed fly.

As an aside Warden, although I no longer live nearby I know Wimpole Hall pretty well and have been told some interesting stories concerning Mrs. Bambridge by locals, servicemen and staff from the 163rd General Hospital.

 

[Edward]

Hes an actor, who is doing his darndest to not forever be pigeon holed as a boy wizard. I commend him for that.

LD

He certainly broke out of the Harry Potter mould when he got his winky out in the West End last year! lol

I've seen him interviewed on television a few times - he seems to be a nice kid, very down to earth unlike so many child stars. Apparently he bought a car recently - something very run of the mill rather than the super sports car that so many rich kids jump to - young premiership soccer players could learn a lot from him. Impressive level headedness for somebody who, at 17(?) is already rich enough that he need never work again....!

 

[Warden]

The DVD is out on Amazon, here is a little clip

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/mpd/permalink/mBVHLVK0VKEXH:m14ETMHRM6DO6X

Now where did I put my credit card?

Harry

 

[jake_fink]

Highly recommended

I saw this last night on TVO. It was excellent.

 

[Doctor Strange]

It will be running in the US on PBS Masterpiece [Theater] in the spring. I don't recall exactly when.

I had posted a link on the Complete Jane Austen thread for the PDF file of the full season schedule for the series, and it's definitely shown there.