Red Riding-Channel 4

drapesy · Post by **drapesy** » Fri 23 Jan, 2009 12:49 am

Cardiarms wrote: Did they build a replica of 70's Leeds in poland for the filming?I'm looking forward for the Damned Utd when it's out. Am I the only person who thinks the 'Damned United' book is poorly written rubbish?

simong · Post by **simong** » Fri 23 Jan, 2009 2:07 am

drapesy wrote: Cardiarms wrote: Did they build a replica of 70's Leeds in poland for the filming?I'm looking forward for the Damned Utd when it's out. Am I the only person who thinks the 'Damned United' book is poorly written rubbish? It doesn't work as well as Peace's other stuff, I'd agree. It's what TV people call docudrama, with Peace's magical realism thrown in. I've read the excellent 'Provided You Don't Kiss Me' by Duncan Hamilton, about his time at Forest, and I think that represents Clough better as a person. To head it off at the pass, 'Red Riding' isn't about the Ripper, and even he is fictionalised on his arrest, but some of the other characters involved are based on people who certainly had parallels in 1970s West Yorkshire society, and the quartet of books, and 'GB84', which is about the miners' strike but has characters and places that overlap, deal with the underside of Leeds that was and is there and is dark, but not unsurprisingly so.

MrsG · Post by **MrsG** » Fri 23 Jan, 2009 11:44 pm

Tried to contact C4 to find out when its on - got this today. not very informative though.......''Thank you for contacting Channel 4 Viewer Enquiries regarding RED RIDING. The new series of this programme will be broadcast on Channel 4 sometime in early spring. There are no exact scheduling details just yet as schedules further than 2weeks ahead are subject to change; please keep an eye on the television listings closer to the time for precise broadcast information. ''

String o' beads · Post by **String o' beads** » Sat 24 Jan, 2009 12:44 am

drapesy wrote: Cardiarms wrote: Did they build a replica of 70's Leeds in poland for the filming?I'm looking forward for the Damned Utd when it's out. Am I the only person who thinks the 'Damned United' book is poorly written rubbish? Thank you drapesy!I was given this book Christmas 2007 and within a couple of chapters had flung it down in disgust. I'm dramatic like that.Not just poorly written but so unlikely as to be absolute miles from the truth, imho.

Cardiarms · Post by **Cardiarms** » Sat 24 Jan, 2009 1:11 am

i liked it, but a matter of taste i suppose. it is a novel written by an author developing a style. he's written all his yorkshire novels while living in japan for ten years.

simong · Post by **simong** » Sat 24 Jan, 2009 1:41 am

Cardiarms wrote: i liked it, but a matter of taste i suppose. it is a novel written by an author developing a style. he's written all his yorkshire novels while living in japan for ten years. That does make them weird, but he is a 40ish year old Wakefield lad so his folk memories are much the same as mine and many of you. 1974 was possibly the most chaotic year of recent times in this country: two elections, the reform of local government and the ensuing creation of the new county police forces, the miners striking and forcing their supporting industries to down tools: Poulson and T. Dan Smith and their pork belly politics. Peace tries to work all that into a grand universal weirdness. You might or might not believe in the interconnectedness of things but his version of 70s West Yorkshire is, and to read at least '1974' and '1978' if you know the area goes beyond 'buying the Evening Post and a packet of Seabrooks' as shorthand for the time and place. Peace has done for Leeds what Iain Rankin did for Edinburgh, which is a smaller but no less crazy city that hides its insanity under the veneer of respectability.

drapesy · Post by **drapesy** » Sun 25 Jan, 2009 12:06 am

Geordie-exile wrote: drapesy wrote: Cardiarms wrote: Did they build a replica of 70's Leeds in poland for the filming?I'm looking forward for the Damned Utd when it's out. Am I the only person who thinks the 'Damned United' book is poorly written rubbish? Thank you drapesy!I was given this book Christmas 2007 and within a couple of chapters had flung it down in disgust. I'm dramatic like that.Not just poorly written but so unlikely as to be absolute miles from the truth, imho. I got about 2/3 of the way through and just couldn.t stand anymore.

Post by **cnosni** » Sun 25 Jan, 2009 1:08 am

Not the best reader of fiction,more a fact reader myself,always more interesting than fiction.I take it then Drapesy that the book didnt hold sway?any particular reason?

Catweazle · Post by **Catweazle** » Sun 25 Jan, 2009 1:54 pm

I think all Peace's novels are a case of the 'emperor's new clothes' -pretentious and he can't even write that well. I've tried at least 3 of them and Damned United was the final straw. With them being set around here I really wanted to like them too hence the multiple chances I gave him.

Catweazle · Post by **Catweazle** » Sun 25 Jan, 2009 1:54 pm

I think all Peace's novels are a case of the 'emperor's new clothes' -pretentious and he can't even write that well. I've tried at least 3 of them and Damned United was the final straw. With them being set around here I really wanted to like them too hence the multiple chances I gave him.