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Murder on the Victorian Railway

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  Posted by kevin (U15625433) on Thursday, 21st February 2013

  Excellent program, nice use of historic information.
  
  Keep this up BBC

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  Posted by Quizzimodo (U551071) on Thursday, 21st February 2013

  Enjoying this too but the actors wandering around modern day London in Victorian garb isn't working for me
  
  

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  Posted by GSTQ (U15296822) on Friday, 22nd February 2013

  Watched it and really enjoyed it.

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  Posted by Stokey Sue (U14258170) on Friday, 22nd February 2013

  Thought it was excellet apart from one or two shots of candle lit rooms, where they might as well have shown a balnk screen as far as I was concerned
  
  And being ultra-picky, it would have been nice if the off screen narrator (Toby Jones) and the on screen commentator (the actor Ben Addis playing Frederick Wicks) had voices I could tell apart - slightly confusing at times, but not in a way that really mattered

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  Posted by Patrick Wallace (U196685) on Friday, 22nd February 2013

  And could they really not afford someone to advise the actor playing the reporter on how to pronounce the condemned man's reported last words? I'm assuming the original text used the old spelling "gethan" - but the reporter would still have heard it pronounced as it is today, not as though the man had suddenly started reciting Welsh rugby players.

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  Posted by Stokey Sue (U14258170) on Friday, 22nd February 2013

  And could they really not afford someone to advise the actor playing the reporter on how to pronounce the condemned man's reported last words? I'm assuming the original text used the old spelling "gethan" - but the reporter would still have heard it pronounced as it is today, not as though the man had suddenly started reciting Welsh rugby players.  I noticed he misponounced it but I assumed it was deliberate - Wicks would have written it down as phonetically as possible, since he didn't speak German and I thoguh the actors was reading what he's writte
  
  Could be either of course

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