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Deeds Not Words

• (Caution: Contains spoilers for Episode: S09E05: Four Funerals and a Wedding) Diesen Beitrag gibt es auch auf Deutsch. •   Joyce’s mother, Muriel, is a guest at the Barnaby home. Much to the chagrin of Tom Barnaby, who, while not getting along badly with his mother-in-law, does not appear to have a warm relationship with her either. Nevertheless, he gets the conversation going at home after work. Cully wants to go to Broughton for the Skimmington Fayre. Her parents are less than enthusiastic, but her grandmother is more so.

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Gilbert & Sullivan: Pirates of Penzance and Midsomer

• (Caution: Contains spoilers for Episode: S22E05: For Death Prepare) Diesen Artikel gibt es auch auf Deutsch. •   Right at the beginning, we see a house on a river with the inscription ‘Empson Playhouse’. A man comes out of the front door with a poster in his hand and hangs it on the wall of the house next to the entrance.On the beige background, which appears to have yellowed, is a tall, black-haired pirate holding a sabre in his right hand. It says “The Midsomer Mummers – The Pirates of Penzance – Centenary Charity Concert – 5th – 8th May”. The film location for the Midsomer Mummers theatre has been The Mill in Sonning, Berkshire, for a hundred years. Instead of “Empson Playhouse”, the building actually says simply “The Mill”. This is because the former mill is actually used for theatre performances.

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ATA – Anything To Anywhere

• (Caution: Contains spoilers for Episode: S16E04: The Flying Club. With a bit of S13E02: The Sword of Guillaume, and a tiny bit of S10E01: Dancing with the Dead) Diesen Beitrag gibt es auch auf Deutschauch auf Deutsch. •   A murder has occurred at Finchmere airfield. John Barnaby interrogates the Darnley family who own the airfield and looks at old photographs in the family’s home. The Darnley family home was filmed at Penn House, Amersham, Buckinghamshire, which has been in the family since 1222. However, the photos John Barnaby is looking at are from the annual festival held at White Waltham. John Barnaby notices a photo of a Spitfire among the many photos and asks Molly Darnley, with a certain recognition in his voice, whether she used to fly one of these famous planes. The elderly lady launches straight into the story: She didn’t fly in the war as a soldier, but was part of the ATA that transported the planes between the factories and the airfields. Without radios and guns.