Must Watch Period Dramas + Recipe for Movie Night Snack
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- Опубліковано 19 січ 2021
- Today I'm answering one of my FAQs and sharing my favourite period dramas. I've chosen a mix of much-loved tv series from my childhood, as well as excellent films. I adore period dramas, so I found it hard to narrow down my choices! What are your favourites?
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Fantastic choices and I would like to add Cranford BBC series with Judi Dench.Thank you Miranda and Donna😗
Thanks for the suggestions, several I had forgotten about - I would add Cranford with Judi Dench
Someone mentioned Judi Dench & it reminded me of the film, Mrs. Brown. It was a very enjoyable story of an older Queen Victoria. The film also stars Billy Connolly, Gerard Butler & Geoffrey Palmer.
Yes, I do love The Barchester Chronicles with late Alan Rickman. I lovrd the theme music too. Posdibly my favorite of TV BBC scores. Nigel Hawthorne and cast were so wonderful!
I totally agree with your #1 film, Persuasion, cannot be topped! Loved North & South book and miniseries ;) I also really was blown away by the Jane Eyre minseries starring Timothy Dalton. It was so close to the book, even the scene with Rochester pretending to be a Romani!!
And yes! Anne of Green Gables is one of my ALL TIME favourites!!!
And we’re currently working our way through the complete Columbo which is wonderful! The first ever episode was produced by a very young Steven Spielberg!
Sense and Sensibility with Emma Thompson and Kate Winslet is my absolute favourite. I actually watched it yesterday for a birthday treat!! Some great suggestions here, and lots of new to me shows and films to look out for. Thank you 💕.
It’s just so brilliant!! ❤️❤️
I loved the Mapp & Lucia miniseries, featuring Prunella Scales! It inspired me to read the books and I really enjoyed them.
The Painted Veil is absolutely wonderful. Music, costumes, story. My favourite Jane Austen is the even earlier TV version with a screenplay by Fay Weldon. Weldon also wrote a lovely introduction to Austen in the guise of letters to a niece: Letters to Alice. You’d like it. David Rintoul is perfect as Mr Darcy. Perfect.
I have 'Letters to Alice,' and you're right - I do like it 😊
I don’t think you go back as far as the ‘I Claudius’ series..terrifying! Also Sword of Honour with Daniel Craig of all people..based on the Evelyn Waugh Trilogy pm WW2. Also Fortunes of War with Emma Thompson and Kenneth Branagh. Lovely lovely choices! I agree with Cranford, and Persuasion with Sally Hawkins.
I keep entire shelves of all of these, for comfort and calm! Might mention The Scarlet Pimpernel with Richard E Grant, and the Emma with Romola Garai and A Man for All Seasons among the films. Rupert Penny Jones was v good in The 39 steps. the Old Testament of Youth. So much wonderful stuff to watch again and again!
Loved your choices!
I love North and South (2005), definitely one of my top series. I’ve rewatched it so many times ❤️
It is fantastic!
Even though I also love the new Emma my personal favourite is the 2008(?) BBC mini-series. But then again I enjoy miniseries more than the movie adaptations. They just always are more faithful to the source.
I quite enjoyed the mini series too!
I'm so glad you mentioned Love and Friendship, you're right when you say it didn't get as much attention as it should have done. I love how quietly subversive it is
Me too!
@@MirandaMills Yes, I'm so glad you mentioned it. I remember seeing a trailer for it but never watched it and forgot about it. I remember it looking hilarious.
Sorry, me again! The Box of Delights, Moondial and The Children of Green Knowe are all wonderful too.
The Green Knowe series was so well done and I loved The Box of Delights too.
Hello Miranda and Donna, My favourite is Pride and Prejudice with Colin Firth I watch it at least 3 times a year! I also enjoyed Lark Rise to Candleford, I can't remember when that was made probably longer ago than I think! x
It is so good! I can't remember if I've seen Lark Rise; I'll have to look it up! xxx
This was such an enjoyable video, a real blast from the past and so many of my own favourites. I absolutely loved The House of Elliot which came out when I was in primary school. I remember writing over all the labels in my own clothes so that I could pretend that they had been designed by Miss Evangeline 😃.
Oh my goodness, thank you for reminding me of The House of Elliot!!! I was mesmerised by it as a teen. Now I want to watch it again!
This was such an enjoyable video, thank you so much. I am not sure that it qualifies but the Anne of Green Gables series with Megan Follows really captivated me. Canadian television has produced some nice period dramas but they are difficult to obtain. Road to Avonlea was a tv show spinoff of Anne of Green Gables and very sweet. Wind at my Back was very nice too (I didn’t like how they ended it but it definitely was different and unexpected). I remember when Canadian television aired Pride and Prejudice (in the 90’s) - I could not believe my eyes and ears, it was so captivating and so different from anything I had ever seen. This was the Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle production. It aired one episode every Sunday night and I was absolutely hooked. I bought the VHS series for $100.00 which back then was a big investment (6 videos) and my British Mother-in-Law was also a great fan with her own copy of the series. She watched it over and over again - as did we and we quote from it to this day. Both the productions of Pride and Prejudice and Anne of Green Gables resulted in my reading all I could find from both authors, what a gift they have been to my soul. I too am a great fan of the Emma with Gwyneth Paltrow and Sense and Sensibility with Emma Thompson. Downton Abbey didn’t really captivate me and Outlander is a big ‘no thanks’. I just discovered you and am so pleased, it’s lovely to hear from you and your sweet Mum. Again, thank you💕
Love this list!!! Thank you so much 😊
Hello Miranda and Donna. This was a great video. I have seen some of your recommendations and loved them. Period dramas are my absolute favorite and also classic movies from the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. That is mostly all I watch. Two of my very favorite series that were not on your lists are The Road to Avonlea and Larkrise To Candleford. I own both of them and now I am in the mood to see them again. I love the new Poldark and I still need to purchase the final season. Also I am a huge Downton Abbey fan. I love Outlander probably because I am of Scottish decent and it is something my husband will watch also. Although, like you, I only made it through the first book which I did love, but I just couldn't get into book 2 and so on. I would like to try again some day. I a happy to hear that you too like the new Emma. I had not heard many good reviews of it and that is why I have been hesitant to purchase it. I have the Pride and Prejudice with Colin Firth and now I want to watch it again too. I will be checking out Persuasion too. I did finally break down and watch Anne with an E. I have to say I was surprised I did not hate it as it strayed from the books so much. I love anything related to Anne. I believe I have all of the versions of Little Women in my collection but one series done by PBS. I love them all, but my favorite is the one from the 1990s starring Susan Sarandon. One series I would like to try is The Wind At My Back which is also produced by Sullivan Entertainment out of Canada. Another one of their series that I have in my collection is Emily of New Moon based on L. M. Montgomery's books. Love it too. I could rattle on forever about period movies and series. Thank you so much for sharing all of your favorites, many of which I am going to try and find. The nuts looked fabulous. Cashews are mine and my husband's favorite. Until we visit again on Friday, take care........Crystal.
Thanks so much, Crystal! Love all your recommendations. I never knew there was a series of Emily of New Moon. I adore the Emily books so would love to try to see that sometime! Xxx
I love having a good period drama playing in the background while I do my embroidery.
Miranda, I love all your vlogs, but I absolutely loved this one. I can really relate to all of your choices-I share so many of your tastes and it’s great to have them all summed up like this. Utter escapism and a salve to all the awful things going on in the world right now. Thank you for inviting me into your kitchen, too. I hope you and your Mum enjoyed Emma again. X
Thanks so much, Anne! I'm so glad you enjoyed watching. Take care xxx
Great selection, you've mentioned so many of my favourites! I also love the 2016 BBC mini series on the Brontes, To Walk Invisible, as well as Cranford and War and Peace (also by the BBC), Parade's End with Rebecca Hall and Benedict Cumberbatch, and A Very English Scandal with Hugh Grant.
Thank you, Georgia. Oh yes, I really enjoyed To Walk Invisible too! I must rewatch that actually!
Brilliant, Miranda - and I love that your favourites are also mine! I also like the two BBC series of Cranford and Return to Cranford. My younger sister thinks too many people died in them, but I adore them. And a great film (and book) is Elizabeth Von Arnim's "Enchanted April." The film is gorgeous and true to the book.
Hello Miranda and Donna. I absolutely love the 2007 version of Persuasion with Rupert Penry Jones and Sally Hawkins. And I loved A Little Chaos with Alan Rickman, Kate Winslet and Schoenaerts. As ever thank you so much for your channel.
I haven't seen A Little Chaos - I'll have to add it to my list. Thanks for the recommendation!
Great video, thank you Miranda and Donna
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Oh my goodness, I felt my past flashing before my eyes when you mentioned some of these period dramas! We all loved the old Poldark, and watched it as a family. I really enjoyed the new one but ran out of steam a bit and haven’t finished all the series. Absolutely love the old Mapp and Lucia with Nigel Havers, he is the epitome of Georgie imo! I really want to visit Rye in the future, and see Lamb House (?), I think that is the house that Mallards is based on. Darling Buds of May is total comfort viewing, and I also just love that Ma, as a plump lady, is seen as sexy and attractive! So many wonderful recommendations, what a treat, thank you! Those nuts look divine. I love anything nutty and could happily finish off that whole bowl single handedly. Lovely video, thank you so much. X
So glad you enjoyed it, Penny - thank you! Yes, it is Lamb House and was so special to see. It's a very literary house, as it was also the home of Henry James and Rumer Godden! xxx
I love Howard’s End EM Forster. Awesome video. Thanks!
My husband and I have been watching the old All Creatures Great and Small while waiting for the weekly episodes to air with the new version. The old version is just as delightful - so funny!
I think next we will watch the older My Family and Other Animals since we enjoyed The Durrells so much. I also enjoyed the book. I am cooking that snack - it looks yummy!
Glad you're enjoying the old All Creatures too! It is absolutely hilarious!! Hope you enjoy the roasted nuts; we find them delicious xxx
I’ve watched most of your recommendations and I loved them, too! I love The Painted Veil (2006) based on the novel by Somerset Maugham-the movie added some extra elements and I thought they improved the story dramatically. I also loved Far from the Madding Crowd (2015) and the Julia Child portion of Julie & Julia (2009).
Oh I haven’t seen The Painted Veil! I’ll have to look that one up. I love Far From the Madding Crowd & I especially liked the Julia bits from that film too 💫
Yes, the Painted Veil is my favourite period drama. I can't get over it. I also read the book and I agree with you that the movie is so much better. Everything about it is so beautiful, touching and perfect!
I also love all the Merchant-Ivory films, such as Howard's End, Room With A View, etc. Also if you ever get the time do watch A Place To Call Home, it is an Australian series that had me on the edge of my seat.
You might enjoy Natasha Little in Vanity Fair-it sticks to the novel and Natasha imbues it all with a great sense of fun! When things are back to normal, it might be worth a trip over to Ilkley to the wonderful small but beautifully formed cinema-mismatched sofas and chairs, great wines, coffees and snacks. Of course, there is The Everyman in Harrogate as well. Loved almost everything on your super list, especially the original Mapp and Lucia, which we watched on Britbox. Au Reservoir!
I love the bookshop in Ilkley, so good to know there's a nice cinema too! Thanks xxx
@@MirandaMills A perfect afternoon-bookshop, Betty's and then the cinema-which is before you get to Booths on the same side. X
Only recently discovered your channel, and love being reminded of many of these. Over Christmas I rewatched Detectorists, only about ten years old, but a lovely gentle watch. The Open Mic night at the pub was wonderful
So many wonderful suggestions Miranda! So many of my favorites:) You make me remember of a bbc tv show that I watched with my parents when I was very young: Upstairs Downstairs (the Bellamy Family) I adore it! And Brideshead Revisited is one of my all-time favorites! Keep safe! 😍😘
This is such a good vlog!! What memories! I love almost every show you mentioned. I would include Rebecca with Charles Dance and Emilia Fox and Jamaica Inn with Jane Seymour. My favorite Jane Erye was with Timothy Dalton. It followed the book almost perfectly.
Oh my goodness Miranda. You’ve reminded me of so many of my favorites! I did rewatch Marple & Maigret over Christmas. Also enjoyed Roy Marsden in the PD James series. Also Chocolat with Johnny Depp.
Great video. I loved 'Chariots of Fire' film.
Those nuts sound lovely! Thank you for sharing your favorite things to watch! I've added quite a few to my watch list!
Such a good selection and brought back so many memories. Loved the Barchester Chronicles and so many more of your choices. Thank you so much.
So glad you enjoyed it- thank you!
Thank you, Miranda, for this lovely whirlwind tour of so many great series and films! I know what you mean about The Durrells but I stayed with it and found a lot of enjoyment in the humour, the scenery, costumes and the performances. All the characters develop over the series. A favourite of mine was the 90s TV adaptation of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, starring Tara Fitzgerald - gripping and very atmospheric.
I loved The Tenant of Wildfell Hall too!
Fun to watch, enjoyed your recommendations.
Thank you SO much…. From snowy, cold Colorado!!! Can’t wait to watch them all!👍
Thank you for the recommendations Miranda! I love period dramas so what a great idea to share your favorites!
So glad you enjoyed them - thank you!
I loved the recommendations and there are plenty I haven't watched yet. I started following your channel last month and already bought so many lovely books. Thank you!
I’m so happy to hear that! Thanks very much 😊
This was a perfect video to watch, Miranda. I have heard so much about the older version of Persuasion and I still haven't got around to watching it, but that is my favourite Jane Austen novel, so I am going to track it down on Prime this weekend. Thank you for all the other suggestions- perfect lockdown viewing!
Oh I hope you manage to watch it!! It’s so perfectly done ❤️ And thank you - so glad you enjoyed the video! Xxx
Thank you for recommending mapp and Lucia. Just watched an episode. Loved it!
Oh wonderful! They’re so fun ❤️
I just finished Emma (2020) last night and loved it! Thank you for the movie recommendations! 🍿🎬
Oh wonderful! It's so beautifully filmed - a real treat for the eyes on a grey winter day!
Thank you, Miranda for sharing your favorite movie classics. I’m going to look for some of these here in the States, may have to look on Amazon. Your home is absolutely gorgeous.. so lovely. I just love your accent! GOD bless- Debbie
I loved Emma 2020 and Little Women 2019, too! 💛 Some of my other favourite period dramas are Miss Potter & Fairytale: A True Story. I don't know if you know them but if not give them a try, they're really great 😄
I enjoyed Miss Potter, but I haven't seen 'Fairytale' so will have to look that up! Thanks for the recommendations xxx
I'm so glad you mentioned Fairy Tale. I loved that film so much I even bought the soundtrack.
Thoroughly enjoyable video, thank you. Awe I really loved the Mansfield Park of '83, oh and Brideshead 🧡📚🧡📚
Two real classics! 💫
I am so glad you said Poldark. I was sitting here waiting, hoping👏🏻😄
Such a fab list with lots of my favourites! I would add the BBC series of Bleak House, and the Cranford series, and I also remember loving The House of Elliot a very long time ago! The Anne of Green Gables with Megan Follows is just perfect, watched it so many times!
I absolutely loved this video I will save it to my Movies list
Oh super! Thank you xxx
My all time favourite period movie is the 1985 movie ‘‘At Room with a View’ staring Helena Bonham Carter. I have lost count the number of times I’ve watched this movie. Beautiful scenery, and amazing costumes and interiors. It’s a wonderfully romantic movie. Thank you for sharing your favourite period dramas and movies. The nut snack looked delicious. As always, I enjoy your vlogs 🌳
Thanks so much! A Room with a View is on my list to see!
@@MirandaMills This is wonderful to hear. I believe you’ll really enjoy it (and your mother too). Happy watching 🍿
@@MirandaMills I also highly recommend ‘Out of Africa’ starring Meryl Streep and Robert Redford. This is another period movie I’ve watched countless times: the same reasons as ‘A Room with a View’, and I believe you (and your mother) would thoroughly enjoy it.
Loved it! The BBC Pride & Prejudice is one of my all-time favourites. I also watched Gosford Park recently and really enjoyed it, as well as Easy Virtue (based on a Noel Coward play) 😊
Love lots of these recommendations, Miranda. Also would add the older Howard's End film with Helena Bonham Carter and Emma Thompson and also The Wings of The Dove with Helena B C is lovely and I saw it years ago, but have been unable to find it anywhere recently. Also adore your pink and purple jacket in this film, it's fabulous.
What a fun idea for a video! You've got all my favorites in here except for Wives and Daughters. (I used to call myself Mrs. Roger Hamley as a teen, LOL!) I've watched the 1995 P&P and Persuasion so many times, I wouldn't be able to count. Love them! I'll have to listen to the soundtrack for Sense and Sensibility. I can't remember it, but I'm sure it's lovely.
I had to cut out a few more of my favourites, as it was just getting far too long, but Wives & Daughters was among them! Love that series too xxx
Hi Miranda - and Donna too! What a wonderful surprise this lovely video was this evening, I just caught my shopping order in time to add cashew nuts 😀 I loved all the programmes and films you mentioned. Joan Hickson is my favourite Miss Marple - we know a chap who now lives in her old home in this area and I remember seeing her in our local family run department store a few times - it was impossible not to think it actually was Miss Marple shopping especially when she was speaking!! An old television series I have downloaded is Lorna Doone (I think you said you were going to read it) and the brilliant Lost in Austen is another one to enjoy. My all time favourite though is Mapp & Lucia - Geraldine McEwan's clothes are divine. I hope you both enjoy re-watching Emma, as you know, the beautiful clothes and scenery are breath taking in that too. Thank you for the recipe, take care and stay safe, Teresa ❤️🎥🍺🧫❤️
You have my favourite celebrity sightings, Teresa!! That’s amazing 😄
I didn’t realise there was an old TV Lorna Doone; I’ll have to look it up! I really liked Lost in Austen too - still remember the Downtown singing scene 😂
Miranda - really enjoyed this and I have lots of Britbox watching to do! I love Gosford Park myself - I watch it annually.
I have all the sharpes on DVD love watching them and persuasion a lot. 🙂❤️
They are so fun!
I love all of your suggestions!! A super fun video to watch. I'm really excited to have new shows to watch while I knit or exercise. My favorites from your list are the AC Miss Marple, AC Poirot, Darling Buds of May, North and South, The Crown, Downton Abbey, Little Women (the 90s version) and Jane Eyre .
I can't wait to watch Mapp & Lucia, Foyle's War, The Pallisers, Love And Friendship, The Guernsey Literary and PPS (loved the book, too!), Emma, Persuasion and The Pride & Prejudice TV series.
More of my favorite TV shows are The Vicar of Dibley, Keeping Up Appearances, Father Brown, Doc Martin, Victoria, Miranda, The Paradise and Call the Midwife. Thank you so much, Miranda!! Hugs to you and your mom! xoxo :D (P.S. The nuts looked AMAZING! I love anything with cayenne pepper and brown sugar...yummmy)
Thank you, Gina! Goodness, you're definitely in for a treat watching Pride & Prejudice for the first time! It's completely wonderful! 💖
I went through a huge Gerard Depardieu period, and Martin Guerre was one of my all time favs! I went through a whole period of the french classics too like Manon of Spring etc. Go Mom! Great recommends, then again, we're probably of a similar age. (-: I don't care for popcorn either. Love your jacket!
Another wonderful video Miranda, what fantastic recommendations, I adore them all! They are my favorites too, I just need to see the one by Mapp and Lucía that you mention that I have only seen the 2014 version with Miranda Richardson and Anna Chancellor. Thank you!
So glad you enjoyed it, thank you! I haven’t seen the more recent Mapp & Lucia, but I honestly think it would be very very hard to beat the old cast. Definitely worth a watch sometime anyway 😊
Thanks for this - great recommendations. I loved The House of Elliot and the BBC adaptation of Middlemarch too with Juliet Aubrey and Rufus Sewell (I became obsessed with Rufus Sewell as Ladislaw! Those cheekbones...). Agree with Donna about Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes, they were fantastic series. And like you, I loved the old My Family and Other Animals with Brian Blessed as Spiro!
Oh yes, I remember that Middlemarch too! I haven't seen it for such a long time - would definitely like to rewatch it at some point xxx
Lovely video. My fav is Pride and Prejudice. I definitely want the movie Persuasion.
The Persuasion film is so wonderful!!!
I loved so many of your selections. Another terrific watch is the Duchess of Duke Street series with Gemma Jones and Christopher Cazenove.
Oh thank you for reminding me of The Duchess of Duke Street! I remember loving that one too!
Another fab video. I’m so looking forward to watching some if the series you recommend. So glad you mentioned Mapp and Lucia my favourite all time series. One of my other favourites is set in Mexico during the revolution and is Like Water for chocolate which I adore
Glad to find another Mapp & Lucia fan! I had to read Like Water for Chocolate for my International Baccalaureate & remember seeing the film then too!
I've seen and loved most of the shows you mentioned here.
'All Creatures Great and Small' used to come on at 7pm on Sunday evenings, and my family used to watch it after a roast dinner each week. I had forgotten about that until I saw you mention that show.
Another favourite period show of mine that I thought you might mention, though perhaps you didn't like it for some reason, is the Sherlock Holmes series starring Jeremy Brett.
The cashew recipe sounded really good. Can't wait to try it!
Thank you for mentioning so many favourite films of mine. I rewatch Pride & Prejudice a few times a year and Poirot (all seasons) once a year, love them so much. I also loved Little Women 2017 adaptation (3 episodes), it's soooo good, I think it's underestimated. Last Friday it was my birthday and we watched Emma again, it was fun😉 We are on the same page in relation to Mansfield Park and Outlander. During Christmas holidays I rewatched various adaptations of Mansfield Park and I love the old one. I have all adaptations of Great Expectations and the last one was good as well. Thinking of Bridgerton, I can't help mentioning the book 'The Perfect Visit' by Stuart Bennett, in which a lady travels to visit Jane Austen and her friend travels to visit Shakespeare. Loved it. North and South 💔💔💔 Cranford, Wives and Daughters. I love Tess of the D'Urbervilles, the book, radio and TV adaptation. So, it's impossible to mention everything, there are so many good period dramas...
Oh, I don't know 'The Perfect Visit' - I'll have to look it up - thank you! Yes, there are so many good ones it's impossible to fit them all in!! xxx
I agree with all your choices, and mirror your thoughts on Miss Marple, the theme tune can, to this day, still instill in me a real buzz of excitement. I know I am late to the party, but my memory of a really good oldie was the BBC TV series 'To serve them all my days' from the books by R.F.Delderfied and starred John Duttine which was broadcast in 1980/1981. I have very fond memories, I read the books after the series, and really enjoyed them as well.
I capture the castle is one of my favourites.
This was so much fun, Miranda. Thank you! And so comprehensive. I wish I had more hours in the week. Well, more leisure hours anyway...
Me too Pamela; there are so many I want to rewatch now 😂
Glad you mentioned Mapp and Lucia. Someone said The House of Elliott and that was fantastic series. I also enjoyed the BBC adaptations of Dickens such as Bleak House. The Duchess of Duke Street and of course Upstairs Downstairs.
Love the House of Eliott and Bleak House too!
Loved your recommendations Miranda. With the grim weather at the moment, I know what I will be doing later today. I notice that someone has mentioned the BBC series ‘War and Peace’. Do watch, it is wonderful! Best wishes to you both from 🏴
I've added it to my list - thank you! Hope you can stay cosy! xxx
What a great list. I have lots to check into now. That Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility are some of my absolute favorites as well. One I love that you didn't mention is Gosford Park.
Gosford Park is a good one too!
I watched All Creatures Great and Small, the new one, per your recommendation. It was so well done on multiple levels! Episode 4 isn't out yet, I can't wait. Another thing that was really nice was I could watch it while my toddler is awake and not worry about anything inappropriate. In fact, he was satisfied too because he could point out the animals and cars and trains etc.
@@katarinasvensson9801 I’ve just finished book one, so now I think I will seek out the older production of the show as I read book two. Thank you for the suggestion
Hello Miranda and Donna, I love this video. My favourites are: Pride and Prejudice, Poldark, Poirot, Miss Marple and Jane Eyre. I also will try the new Emma. Greetings also to your lovely mum 🥰🇳🇱.
Thanks so much! Those are all such good ones!
I loved your recommendations and agree with so many of them! One of my favourites is an old BBC series called Portrait of a Marriage (about Vita Sackville-West’s marriage to Harold Nicholson) - not sure if everyone would class it as a period piece but it’s really enjoyable! And quite modern for it’s release :)
Oh that sounds really good! I’ll have to look it up. Thanks for the recommendation 😊🎥🍿
Agree! Portrait of a Marriage was/is excellent. As someone else has mentioned, House of Elliot was also great , particularly the early seasons - although I don’t think I could watch it again without thinking of the fantastic French & Saunders send up! 🤣🤣
Lovely video. I was reminded of a lovely little period drama from the 80’s which was set pre WW2 I think, called Nanny with Wendy Craig.
I'm a new viewer and loved this video 🙂 I'm a huge fan of period dramas and I'm always looking for more to watch so I've taken a few recommendations 🙂 a few I would recommend are Fingersmith, Tess of the D'urbervilles, Bleak House, Call the midwife and the version of Persuasion with Sally Hawkins. Films I would recommend are Brooklyn, Suffragette and The Duchess 🙂
Such great recommendations and lovely cashew recipe. Will enjoy watching the rest of your recommendations. The new Emma is soo good, one of my top favourites. Hope you enjoy your movie night with you mum.
Thanks so much, Yumi! We did enjoy it! Those cashews are so yummy 😋
So many good recommendations! Although I have to add Persuasion with Sally Hawkins, Emma with Romola Garai and my favorite version of Sense and Sensibility with Hattie Morahan. North and South is one of my favourites and so rarely gets a mention.
The first Emma I saw was Kate Beckinsale 1996 TV version which remains my favorite except the 2020 version. Love this video.
So enjoy remenber serie and movies... my favourite when I was a teenager , A Room with a view by James Ivory... I live in Florence so I love every place in in the film... and the romantic view from the country, , near my home...
WHat a beautiful place to live!
Your mum's 'Good for you because they're nuts' was exactly the comment my husband made when I'd baked a chocolate and pecan nut pie!!
Hi Miranda thanks so much for your recommendations 👍👍 My favourites are The Bletchley Circle (TV), South Riding (TV), Ladies of Lavender (film) & The light between the ocean (film) best wishes Natalie
Ladies of Lavender is on my list to watch! I enjoyed South Riding a lot too. Thanks for the recommendations! xxx
I loved so many, if not nearly all, of those series/films you mentioned.
Absolutely loved The Queens Gambit, I too fancied reading the book but am a tad put off as I don’t really understand the rules of chess and wonder if that may spoil the reading 🧐😂
Two other favourites are Mr Selfridge and The Paradise 😍
Your snack looked and sounded delicious, adding nuts to my next shopping delivery 🤣💫
Thanks for your recommendations too, Karen! Hope you enjoy the cashew recipe! xxx
I really enjoyed watching this video. The most recent period drama I've watched that I really liked was "Harlots." I didn't think I would like it at first, but the cast was so good, not to mention the costumes, and the drama of the story really pulled me in. While not exactly a period drama, you should check out the 2004 film "Bride & Prejudice." It's kind of a Bollywood adaptation of "Pride and Prejudice." I remember seeing it in the depths of winter, and it was just such a colorful, fun movie that it made me forget about the bleak weather outside.
I loved Forsythe saga.
Hi Miranda!!!! I' ve enjoyed your vídeo so much...thank you!!! I'd like to watch Little women and the new Emma's version!!! By the way, I also love maltesers!!! Until the next vídeo! 😘😘📚🌸
Thanks so much! I definitely recommend watching those; they’re so visually stunning (perfect winter viewing). Yay for maltesers 😂
Thank you for all of your recommendations. I am very interested in reading All Creatures Great and Small before watching the new series. I too am an animal lover, so you piqued my interest when you mentioned the book in another video. I understand that these are a series of books? Your cashews look very tasty too. I will be trying your recipe one of these days!
I think it's a great idea to read the book first! Yes, they are a series; the first in the set is called 'All Creatures Great and Small' xxx
Julia Quinn's Bridgerton book series is wonderful! I read it and loved all the books in the series. :-)
Good to know - thank you! I'm looking forward to trying the first one xxx
This is GOLD! I'm adding things from BritBox as you talk, haha. Someone mentioned the year 2000 the other day and when I realized how long ago that is now I was like 🤔😱🤯😵
Best not to think on these things 😂
Okay, a later edit: 1995 Sense & Sensibility is perfection and you are the only person I've ever encountered who knows Emma Thompson's diaries from it! I love reading them so much.
It's a bit scary isn't it 😂 So glad you're a fan of those diaries too! I always really felt for her over the 'too old' comment...!!!
@@MirandaMills Yes, so unjust!
Loved all the choices and I did read the book The Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis. I highly recommend it, such a good book.
Oh my goodness Miranda, so many of these mentioned are my favorites. I just finished Barchester Towers this week. A favorite. I prefer the older versions so much. Love David Suchet as Poirot so much . No one will ever replace him. Love Wolf Hall. Love Midsomer Murders with DCI Tom Barnaby. They are my happy place when I want to be calm. I am enjoying the new All Creatures great and Small. Which surprised me. I have the original series and love it. So I wasn't too sure about the new people. I don't have cable or satalite so I usually buy the DVDs. I treasure them. I have Cranford and some Dickens and lots of Austin. So we agree on so many things. Thank you for this list. Great idea. 👍❤️ P.S. I had to add this: I loved that sense and sensibility the best. And that Persuasion the very best. My favorite Austens
I enjoy Wolf Hall, Cranford & many of the Dickens too! I’m impressed by the new All Creatures too, especially as they had such a tough act to follow!!
@@MirandaMills absolutely agree. 😊
I love the 1983 Mansfield Park, Miss Maple! and Jeeves and Wooster.
I loved your DVD & movie chat. I hope you keep doing this as well... I have a huge DVD collection! Way too many! 🙀 I adore anything Miss Marple or Poirot . Your right Joan Hickson & David Suchet are the best & my favourite. Also you can’t go past Mrs Oliver - Zoe Wanamaker. I love the Art Deco period. I havent seen your favourite version of Persuasion. I love the one with Sally Hawkins & the adorable Oh My Goodness Rupert Penry-Jones. 😍 I’m a series buff...🙀❤️
I want to see Persuasion! Have you seen the 2005 Bleak House with Anna Maxwell Martin? That would definitely be on my list!
Yes, I enjoyed that Bleak House a lot too!
Persuasion is in my top 5, I love Room With a View and Howards End and I watch the 1995 Pride and Prejudice when I want something comforting on in the background. Dangerous Romantics and Mama Mia. LOL
I have also watched quite a few of the same ones that you have. Pride and prejudice, the 1995 version I absolutely love. I’ll have to say my favorite Jane Austin is the 1995 persuasion, I just love that one. I also love Cranford, that was really good, wives and daughters I like that one and I also like the miniseries the Cazelets. Did you see those and if so, what do you think about them? I am definitely going to try the cashew nuts recipe. My husband loves cashews.
Yes I have seen those and enjoyed them! I’d actually originally included Wives & Daughters in this video, but had to cut some as it was too long 😂 I loved the old Tess with Justine Waddell too. Hope you both enjoy the cashews!
I could wax lyrical about P&P (1995) until the cows come home. Benjamin Whitrow was the stand out for me. He captured Mr Bennet's detached humour perfectly. And Mr Collins of course!
I agree Benjamin Whitrow was brilliant in the role!