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Old 05-12-2012, 14:40   #211
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I totally forgot this was on last night. Would have been interesting I am sure.
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Old 05-12-2012, 15:31   #212
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I totally forgot this was on last night. Would have been interesting I am sure.
Have you not got iPlayer?
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Old 05-12-2012, 16:33   #213
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Not sure. Not well up on this sort of thing. I will ask my son tonight.
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Old 05-12-2012, 17:50   #214
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I enjoyed the programnme, and ended up liking her a lot more than I had before. I found it intersting that things like 'playing out' were still common in the 1960s & 70s. I want to know whuich schools she went to (Peel Park?, High School?) and howe she got from being kicked out by parents to university - something which would need parental suppport I think. I had always thought she lived in Russia Street across t'back from my parents. Still got a local accent.
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Old 05-12-2012, 18:24   #215
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She's as mad as a box o' frogs.
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She's as mad as a box o' frogs.
Agreed. Totally cuckoo. The problem is - certainly from the perspective of the big smoke - that once you mention you're from Accy it's no longer an automatic reply of 'Stanley' but '.......isn't that the town of crazy bible bashers and lesbo's. There's no escape. Talk about putting the place on the map....
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Old 05-12-2012, 20:47   #217
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I really enjoyed it and yes she is bonkers but a lot of writers are

Nearly 30 years after her debut novel, Oranges are Not the Only Fruit, Jeanette Winterson returns with Alan Yentob to the scenes of her extraordinary childhood in Lancashire.

BBC iPlayer - imagine...: Winter 2012: Jeanette Winterson: My Monster and Me
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Old 05-12-2012, 21:33   #218
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we recorded it and watched it back tonight, really good.
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Cant understand the gravestone about Mr Winterson... died 1951 ?
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Old 05-12-2012, 22:07   #219
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Wouldn't normally watch that but it was quite interesting really.
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Old 05-12-2012, 23:07   #220
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I really enjoyed it and yes she is bonkers but a lot of writers are

Nearly 30 years after her debut novel, Oranges are Not the Only Fruit, Jeanette Winterson returns with Alan Yentob to the scenes of her extraordinary childhood in Lancashire.

BBC iPlayer - imagine...: Winter 2012: Jeanette Winterson: My Monster and Me
Cheers fer the link Wadey, Shes as mad as a hatter, but was interesting.
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Old 05-12-2012, 23:19   #221
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Cant understand the gravestone about Mr Winterson... died 1951 ?
Judging by the dates 1877-1951 I reckon he was the father of the Mr Winterson who was Jeanette's dad, who erected the stone in memory of his wife and father.
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Judging by the dates 1877-1951 I reckon he was the father of the Mr Winterson who was Jeanette's dad, who erected the stone in memory of his wife and father.
But surely yeh would think jeanette woulda twigged that? Shes nuts, but sure no half wit.
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Old 06-12-2012, 15:45   #223
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She no doubt did twig the connection 10 minutes later ..... and regretted that she had not twigged it on camera .... ******* eck ...... !!
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Old 06-12-2012, 17:59   #224
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Yentob sure can make some excellent documentaries. But I'm afraid it didn't make Accy look good. It was taken as read that anyone with half a brain cell would want to "escape" and "get out of this". Maybe this is actually true. But then again, you could argue that Jeanette must have been to excellent schools to get from Water St. to Oxford. Plus maybe Accy library should be in for some praise. But this was not the angle presented in this programme.

Alan Yentob ambling around Water St and Accy library ! When was it filmed....?
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Old 06-12-2012, 18:22   #225
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It was enjoyable watching her life but we don't all have the luxury to write books about our childhoods and talk about them on TV.

Waz wondering if she is being creative with the past? - I lived up Water Street same time Jeanette did and I never saw her sitting on the doorstep looking like a waif, out of Les Miserables. When I did see her she looked very normal - more like Dorothy out of Wizzard of Oz with a little terrier.

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