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The Suspicions of Mr Whicher
I had heard about and read an article about the strange and gruesome murder of a young boy which took place in the village of Rode in Somerset one summer’s night in 1860; Saville Kent was only three...
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Talent!
I came across Nicholas Bro when I watched Season 2 of The Killing; I hadn’t meant to watch Season 1… I had thought that watching so many episodes with subtitles which would be running over so many...
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Forbrydelsen
It was a Saturday evening in January 2011 and with a mountain of ironing to do I was waiting for the iron to heat up and turned on the TV to watch while I completed the hated chore. I had heard that...
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The Killing III… the end…
I have just watched the final episode of the final series, the last ever, of Forbrydelsen, The Killing. It is a Danish crime series, starring Sofie Gråbøl as Sarah Lund, the detective who investigates…...
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Forbrydelsen: end of part 1
I bought the box set of Forbrydelsen, the Killing, a Danish TV drama about a detective, Sara Lund who investigates murder. I watched he first two series on TV but missed the last one, so I treated...
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Smith, Sidebottom and McTavish
A couple of days ago I wrote about watching a film or TV programme in another language with subtitles; however good the subtitles are, they can’t always convey the subtleties of speech, those accents...
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Those Who Kill…
Den Som Dræber is a Danish TV series which only ran to one season; its English title is ‘Those Who Kill’ and it is in the same genre as ‘The Killing’ and ‘the Bridge’ and other similar Scandinavian TV...
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Coming late to ‘Borgen’
Borgen is a ‘Danish’ TV drama, a political drama which was first released in 2010. It was popular not just in Denmark but in many other countries too, and won many awards. For some reason which I have...
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Irony
Ironing is one of those chores which I don’t really mind once I get started, but it’s the thought of it which puts me off… and puts me off… and puts me off until there is a mountain not a pile of it to...
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