One is dead, and is mad, and I have quite forgotten

[nineveh_uk]

*Drum roll* BBC4 Saturday night once again brings us must-see Scandinavian programme, this time, costume drama.

1864! A year to echo down the ages. 1864! A year of blood and infamy, of heroism, of folly, of despair!

1864, the year of the Second Schleswig War!

*screeches to a halt*

Yes, it's an eight-part epic costume drama on the Schleswig-Holstein question, subject of about 15 minutes at A-level lo those many years ago. It stars the usual suspects of Danish TV, and has prompted dialect!fail wank on the internet. I can't wait.

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[nineveh_uk]

I liked it, surprise!bestiality notwithstanding. I had been a bit suspicious about how the parallel modern storyline would work, but so far it seems to. It helps that it is not the bog-standard one of British novels, "extraordinarily wealthy and successful and yet somehow discontented upper-middle class woman retreats to the country pile where she spent her childhood and is disconnected from, and discovers a Family Secret." Also, I can see why the Danish right-wing hated it.

I am looking forward to Barbara Flynn next week, and wondering just how people could get to be deluded enough to choose to go to war with Bismarck.