Talk:Home Fires (British TV series)

theme music by Samuel Sim

 * lifeofwylie.com/2015/05/01/home-fires-interviews/
 * The memorable Home Fires main theme was written by series composer Samuel Sim.
 * The soundtrack features the collective vocal talents of Heather Cairncross, Joanna Forbes L’Estrange, Rachel Weston and Grace Davidson plus musicians Chris Richards (clarinet), Ileana Ruhemann (flute) and Caroline Dale (cello).

-71.174.188.32 (talk) 03:00, 24 October 2015 (UTC)


 * www.heathercairncross.com/home-fires-theme-music/
 * "For me it was just another demo session – Micaela Haslam (Musical Director of Synergy Vocals) booked the four singers. I was lucky enough to be joined by a top team of session singers: Grace Davidson, Joanna Forbes L’Estrange and Rachel Weston) and we turned up at Angel Studios with the brief that Samuel Sim (The Mill, Coalition, Touch Of Cloth) wanted to record a few ideas in different ways so that he could put them together for a pitch to ITV. He was submitting music to try to become the composer for a new series called Home Fires. We often do this for TV and Ads but, to be honest, not many are successful. First we recorded the four individual parts together as a quartet and then tracked them up. We then swapped music stands, sung the next part and did this again until we had all sung every one of the four parts."

-71.174.188.32 (talk) 04:11, 11 November 2015 (UTC)

length uncertain
A strange length mystery here! The article currently says 44-46min. The Oct 2015 WGBH PBS broadcasts are running 51min of core content, plus credits etc (in a 60min broadcast slot). Amazon UK says 273min for the DVD, which averages 45.5min. Amazon US says 360min, which is probably based on a bogus nominal 60min per episode. A reviewer there says:
 * "Review of the Bluray of this British miniseries – this is the full UK Version
 * By Steve Ramm TOP 100 REVIEWER on October 13, 2015
 * Format: Blu-ray
 * This 4 ½ hour series (six 47-minute episodes) was produced in 2015 by the British commercial network ITV – the reason it is less than an hour. It aired on PBS in the US in a somewhat edited edition. ( I didn’t see the TV version but there some expletives.). And the package says “Full UK-Length Edition” "

Based on all these clues, it seems like the US broadcasts are at least 6mins longer per episode than the original UK ITV broadcasts -- which would be very unusual. And it also seems that the DVD versions in the UK and the US contain the shorter UK version, not the longer US version.-71.174.188.32 (talk) 15:25, 24 October 2015 (UTC)

Short summaries
The short summaries are not good enough and look like they have been copied from a TV guide. The problem is the summaries ask questions. Wikipedia is supposed to be an encyclopedia for answers not questions. They should be rewritten by leaving out the questions. REVUpminster (talk) 17:31, 5 April 2016 (UTC)