Talk:Lark Rise to Candleford

Where are the books?
It seems strange to me that this article is mainly concerned with the plays based on the books, and has so little on the books themselves. It's been too long since I read them for me to have anything intelligent to say, but surely someone...?  &middot; rodii &middot;  17:35, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

This is a fair point. I do know quite a bit about the books so will add something when I have time, unless someone gets to it before me.--Sabrebd (talk) 01:31, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I added a couple of sentences about the book since the opening comment was written, but they were from one source only and with no close knowledge. The page would certainly benefit from more. --Old Moonraker (talk) 07:26, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

Indeed! The article comes across as publicity for the brilliance of the play and of the work of the 'playwright', who primarily applied a theatrical novelty to someone else's work. It is the original work and its author that ought to be the main subject of this article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.178.179.84 (talk) 03:34, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
 * WP:SOFIXIT! Still waiting for someone knowledgeable to come along and fix this, but you should have seen the article before the TV series was spun off into a separate page!  Is there a case for splitting the plays off to a separate article in the same way? The plays were brilliant, by the way.--Old Moonraker (talk) 08:49, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

New Music
Given that Ashley Hutchings has formed a Lark Rise Band and pushed out another album perhaps the shows and albums should be split and the recordings updated.--Sabrebd (talk) 01:31, 27 January 2009 (UTC)


 * The first album was the cast album for the plays and includes some dialogue from actors in the production: they should probably stay together. I don't know the later work, but there isn't much about it on Hutchings's page: could it be expanded there, with a link from here? --Old Moonraker (talk) 07:26, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

Spellings
Reading this guideline regarding "retaining the existing variety of English" I couldn't see the point of the change from the "Cambridge" -ise form to the "Oxford" -ize form. Most users of "British English", even those aware of the Greek derivation of the suffix, prefer -ise: count me among the "lazy spellers" if you like. For consistency with the remaining "ise" spellings in the article, reverting. --Old Moonraker (talk) 12:49, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

Where is Candleford Green?
I question the statement that Candleford Green relates to Fringford. In the book, Thompson refers to Candleford Green as being on the outskirts of Candleford itself, and with several shops, a pub and so on. She mentions that in more recent years the village has expanded, to the extent of now having a service station and so on. Fringford, however, is still a small village, far from any town, and lacks most of the features that Thompson attributes to Candleford Green. She did indeed work at Fringford Post Office (now a private house) but in this respect (as possibly in many others) her books are not autobiographical in the detail. I don't have a sufficiently detailed knowledge of the locality to make a claim for any particular suburb of Buckingham, Bicester or Banbury being the model for Candleford Green, however, though I imagine that she had some particular place in mind.Robin Scagell (talk) 00:26, 16 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Not disputing this, and more information would certainly be welcome, but it's now got a ref. --Old Moonraker (talk) 07:17, 16 January 2010 (UTC)

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Lark Rise to Ambridge
The BBC are doing a two-part radio adaptation featuring some of the Archers characters reading the book. Noting the parallels between rural life then and now. The characters have been reading the book within the story line of the soap opera. It is going to be broadcast 1 Oct and 8 Oct 2023. I do not know how notable this is going to be. 193.211.60.138 (talk) 18:33, 25 September 2023 (UTC)