Very possibly. Carmichael's father had served in the Great War (Medical Officer), and he himself was a veteran of Normandy and the advance to the Rhine. Both would have seen shell-shock at first hand.

Not so much as ….and you are?

With no disrespect meant to any other actor who's donned Lord Peter's finery, Ian Carmichael *is* Lord Peter Wimsey in my mind thanks to PBS (specifically KQED 9 San Francisco) and my parents.

@@langsuan123 Lovley, jubbly it took it`s time to penetrate. OH there i go again.

Hey

I spotted your comment and smiled when reading it. Ian Carmichael was an accomplished pianist and truly wizard on the saxophone. Yes, of course he 'mimes' in the Lord Peter series but he was a wonderful musician.

@@chelamcguire I didn’t t know that. It makes perfect sense. Thank you 😊

is really astonishing when film and TV companies have spent so much on getting everything right, but still take no notice of what the people playing musicians are doing. Oddly enough, the exploitation film maker Jess Franco quite often gets this right, which is amazing, considering the budgets he was working with. There's an amazing scene in one of his films, in which he is playing alongside Manfred Mann; and they really are playing as well..

I always figured Ian played for real in the show. It looks legit to me, I'm amazed. He's also an accomplished mime apparently.

@@oliverclothesoff5397 Just so sad that Mr Carmichael has gone from our world. I wished that he'd done more of the books though i believe that he'd narrated all of them for radio. His dear 'wife' is still with us but his devoted 'butler' has passed away. We are all here such a short time......

why would he call him weak? Wimsey has had a breakdown himself because of his war experiences

@@glen7318 That's Tu's point, isn't it? It was Murbles that gave that description of George, and that led Lord Peter to jump to George's defense.

Hey

He's done some of the audiobooks, too. His reading is sheer perfection.

He does have a rather sly, steely severity when provoked, like Brenda Blethyn in Vera" (whom I love, bit he's much more elegant of course).

I think both Carmichael and Petherbridge do a fine job. They are different, that's all. Seems like fictional characters can have several interpretations and stay true to the story.

Yes he was the only one for this role really wasn't he.

Ian Carmichael reads Wimsey books on line. try them on youtube

Muck006 How CAN you place "gay, trans, female or non-White" all in a row, in that particular order?! Females make up more than half the world's entire population, the others are real minorities. Furthermore, I think you do feminists a disservice. They aren't all nuts.

"Todays feminists and SJWs (and the Antifa communists) are intent on throwing away respect for any achievements" --- You've just made that up. Bare-faced invention.

They were just cannon fodder. One German officer was shocked when he saw the men and their horses being sent directly into the German machine gun fire.

That's not the terrible part. When they were sent during WW1, nobody really knew what they were sending them into, because it was a completely new scenario; and nobody really knew anything about 'shell shock' or ptsd as it is now, even though there are mentions of it as far back as Ancient Greece. The terrible part is that the same thing happens now, and they get treated the same way, by so, so many when they return. But we do know.

@@debbielough7754 It's terrible. In the past, it was a way a government got rid of the poor(er) in society. In England, sometimes the returning soldiers would be housed on river barges and once in awhile, one would catch fire. The conditions in the trenches was horrific. There was no social media back then and family members wouldn't know what their sons would be suffering.

My very much missed mum saw him where she worked at the original Waterers nursery and garden centre in the early 70s. Apparently he was a very much reserved in his public demeanour but still polite and gentlemanly. Very much old-school.

I miss the gentility of the past. Of course, each era has its pros and cons.

How lovely!

Both are interesting and entertaning in their own way. I loved the episodes with Harriet Vane in them - very romantic to se our hero wooing her -, but these others are also funny and smart.

Please. Lord Peter. Sir Peter would be something quite different. Petherbridge is closer in appearance, and the right age, but as long as I close my eyes, Carmichael is wimsier.

The character changed over the course of the series. When we meet him, he's somewhat flighty and irresponsible, still troubled and recovering by episodes of PTSD. His interest in solving murders comes about because he's very wealthy and bored. He's the second son, doesn't expect to inherit the his father's title because his brother has a nephew and can afford to indulge his whims. But, by the time we see him and Harriet married in Busman's Honeymoon, he's much more grounded. Now when he's brought into a case he is driven to discover who the murderer is and see justice done even though it grieved him to know the murderer faced hanging. The character aged and, during his relationship with Harriet Vane, 'grew up'. Which makes him all the more interesting. Edward Petherbridge carries the transition of the last three TV films off very well. And though we only have the audible book for Busman's Honeymoon your imagination can fill in how would appear if only they had presented it on film. Wonderful character and great cast. I loved Ian Carmichael and Edward Petherbridge in the role.

@@nancycrayton2738 The character does deepen over the course of several books, at first Sayers was just creating a mystery story. Over time, she gave Peter more depth, suggested that under his frivolous manner he was badly shaken by his war experiences and that he detected out of a desire to help people rather than out of boredom

@shirley: It's Lord Peter, not Sir Peter. Peter's the younger son of a duke and therefore not a peer. Nor is he a baronet (hereditary title) or a knight (a man knighted by the British monarch).

Famous for understatement which is why I love British Novels!

Spoken by a person who will, like all of us, be geezers ourselves someday. And might want a little more respect. Noticing that the grandsons are only interested in how much money they might get. Not endearing.

@lou That's the thing about being young. It might as well be a different nationality or species. The young always look at the old as if they have some particularly disgraceful disease, that they themselves are immune to. It isn't until you start to become old for instance that you start regretting how condescending you were to your parents, or your own children start to treat you the same way. Don't worry. Payback, alas, is coming for the young, lol. They just don't realize it yet. Those making fun of geezers today, are the geezers of tomorrow, and karma is not kind.

@@lou-nc4rc Are they? George has a hysterical fit because he's shell shocked. The Grandfather is very old, they cant expect him to live much longer

@@wmnoffaith1 So true. The young think they'll be young forever.

Then you clearly have not been watching English media for the last 25 years. They have all gone PC and classy is the last thing they now portray.

Yes yes and yes.... Petheridge is just a bit too affected for me...

@@glen7318 Yes, the Petheridge-Walter duo seemed like dreary depressives throughout. None of Carmichael's sprightliness and joy.

@@polemeros Yes, Sayers' creation had a sad side but alos a happy frivolling side. Harriet Walter is always glum and the whole tenor of the show has changed

I know him best as Dolly Longstaff in the 1970s adaptation of "The Pallisers."

Linus (Ecbert of Wessex) Roache's mother.

condemed man? Is Insp WExford not set in modern times, after the death penality was abolished?

😎😳Great story, let's hear it for humane behaviour for all humanity in big ways and small, every day in all way untill it comes some what naturally and then naturally...😊😎

The old way was much better.

@@polemeros My grandfather didn't think so. He was one of the members who worked for change, tapping an African American candidate for membership who was so well qualified that he couldn't possibly be turned down (in the wake of his friend Carl Rowan not getting in, due to racism) and I believe he may have been behind the change that got rid of the no-women-through-the-front-door nonsense...that change took place between the summer when I turned ten years old and the Christmas a year and a half later. Can you imagine having to tell your beloved brilliant ten year old granddaughter, the apple of your eye, who reads six years above grade level and who looks exactly like her grandmother, the love of your life...that she is NOT Good Enough to come in through the front door? Of course he changed that rule, just as he made the racial bar fall at the Cosmos Club, out of anger that they had snubbed his friend, Carl Rowan! When my grandfather wanted to change things, he didn't yammer on about it...he simply made it happen. He and Joe Kennedy, Sr., got FDR on the ballot in '32, working together, though of course there were many others who also made important contributions to the 1932 campaign. But when my grandfather wanted something to happen...it often did happen. He was good at that. I wish he'd lived long enough for me to have learned skills from him. I remember him and I miss him, but he passed away while I was still too young to have learned from him.

@@alindley3128 Strange. They do things differently in America...

@@nicholasalexander4743 Constitutional democracies are only a little bit different from constitutional monarchies, especially compared to the default forms of government, namely totalitarian autocracies and failed warlord states....

? Who?

It doesn't really add antying to the plot as far as I remember. There's nothing in the book about cigarette ends being a clue

@@glen7318 You missed the point of the remark then ... because it is included to show how desperate and BROKE the person is ... explaining why he is a potential suspect.

@@Muck006 He was always a potential suspect as the grandson of the old general

I agree; he is far closer to the Wimsey created and described by DLS. But I can occasionally enjoy Ian Carmichael in the role, at least a little.

George does not want to do housework because he's not brought up to it and he is mentally shaken up by the war. Sheila has a full time job and has heart troulble, so relying on not very good servants, who might walk out any minute, is all she can do.

@@glen7318 No, he's a twat. He's an entitled self absorbed horrible person as everything else he does demonstrates. He doesn't care about Sheila at all, just about his won self importance. The good old English class system at work. And it's still there. Everybody despising everyone else, except for, bizarrely, the "lowest" order, who think people like Prince Andrew are great. Who also throw tantrums all the time and refuses to even close his own curtain.

The book makes a bit clearer, I think, that it's a matter of adjusting to a new reality and doing so badly.

@@glen7318 Yes, she's okay. He's an idiot.

@@beth12svist exactly...being an idiot.

vietnamese vets didn't fare much better but only usa is important, it seems

Worse

All U.S. Vets except WW2 have been ignored.

And all by the left and Democrats long may they hang!

@big bear fuzzums: Are u REALLY as stupid and idiotic as ur comment makes u out to be? Or do u have Alzheimer’s or suffer from major memory loss? U conveniently seem to forget that nixon pledged to end the war-just didn’t say how long it wd. take. Do u remember a guy named Reagan, an actor turned President? I believe his successor was a Bush....but the smart one. And we had eight years of his, the not very bright one. Yes, there were Democratic Presidents-Carter, Clinton and Obama whom u likely despise more than any President bcoz, like the current occupant of our beautiful White House, ur probably a closet or not so closeted racist. Don’t dare to blame our vets treatment only on the Democrats u hate-mongering bigot.

IT IS!

ciroalb3 not in the credits - sounds like him but not quite

I truly enjoy all the old radio programs!! Fond memories of my youth!!

@ciroalb3: I too was sure I saw Frank Middlemass as the old boy in the club with the handlebar moustache. Don't know what his name is. However I'll have a good look at the credits.

@@mfjdv2020 he is named in the book, but I think not in the program

@@mfjdv2020 Norman Scace?

The theme song to this very series ragtimed to pieces!

And the Latin schoolmaster in...something--he falls over in a heart attack mid-translation... Also, the fellow playing George played Charlie in "Bergerac" a few decades later. Took me awhile--I did a double-take, watched him for a bit, but didn't recall until I'd walked away. So good one can't recall who else they played while they're playing the one they're playing before you.

@@dellaroux To serve them ALl my dayss is where he plays a teacher.

@@glen7318 Ah, yes, thanks, that's it. I just pictured that lanky flat-fall mid-ablative, classic....

What? Round their necks? I believe so. In fact, that's how I still wear mine...

because that is a way that Englsih people talked.

@@glen7318 It's an upper-class affectation.

wodehouse?

Dorothy L Sayers. an academic researcher (Oxford )as well as a writer of mysteries

Does that happen to everyone, no matter how they die? :-0

It is possible that the victim had voided just prior to his death, though that would have been an extraordinarily lucky coincidence for the party who would benefit by it (sorry to be vague, but trying not to spoil).

Rarely.

Edward Petherbridge?

Lern englisch ... deutsche Übersetzungen haben Fehler ... und zwar nicht zu knapp. Manchmal wird der Sinn sogar um 180° gedreht ... und die ungebildeten Übersetzer wissen z.B. nicht dass "taking orders" (aus: Pride & Prejudice) "zum Priester ordiniert werden" heisst ... und nichts mit "Befehle entgegen nehmen" zu tun hat.

Muck006 Don't make a muck of it, old boy, don't you know. We're lucky to have it.

Hush

If the guest was invited then yes; if uninvited I think no.

@@jamescairns4051 For sure. An uninvited guest should not get a drink at all.

Bunter is merely conveying Lord Peter's part-consumed sherry from A to B. He's not being offered a drink. Murbles is.

He had PTSD

Shellshock from fighting in the trenches WWI

@@mavisemberson8737 Absolutely - shellshock was PTSD. Terrible.

well as an actor I know this......ITS HARD to play dead...so be it

Moan moan

@@auntfanny3266 This was filmed back in the days when they were still using really big lights which made the sets rather warm. Having a REAL dead body - which also conforms to the specification of gender, looks and weight - under these circumstances would be "unsanitary". Full size puppets arent that easy/cheap to make either.

It's known as corpsing.

I think that they frown on using an actual dead body.. (or killing the actor)....

Turn them off :-)

Just LISTEN to them speak ... and learn the language that way. There are two things you need to learn it (after getting a starting vocabulary): - something to read, which you can DEVOUR every day ... which will give you the basic understanding of sentences and grammar and - something to listen to, which will demonstrate how words are pronounced. As my old english teacher used to say: _You do not need to know what each word means, you just need to know what the sentence means._

@@Muck006 the subtitles are terrible you could not follow hte plot that way

Anna - Yes, they should have waited for Glyn Houston to come back.

MAYBE GLYN WASN'T UP TO THINGS

@@inisipisTV They are hardly going to be able to wait if an actor has another commitment...Bunter isn't the star

@@glen7318 And Glyn Houston was no mean actor -- he had other commitments. This one does all right, even though I agree that I would have preferred GH.

@@VLind-uk6mb Gerald Campion was the best Bunter.

Ungrateful arse, 😯

@@kathleencampbell1138 Converting the screen ratio is easy ... but not part of YT auto-corrections.

I'm watching on my phone and it's great , even if it wasn't,u won't hear me complaining, it's free and all the episodes are in order,the channel took time to share these, until I learn how to do it myself , I'll take it as is and be grateful. Thanks again for this channel poster's time and effort !

Early 50's (he was born in 1920) but it's something that he admitted to himself, which is the main reason he didn't do any more after 1975.

@@Shadowman4710 Ian Carmichael was in his early 50s. But in the novel Lord Peter was in his early 30s.

. They are speaking English... Americans must not expect all people to speak American. :-) This is a programme for a British audience it wasn't made for world wide distribution .Sorry.

I haven't come across anyone with an accent yet, but I'm only 8 minutes into this episode. I'll keep you posted.

@merry hunt: The artist's young maid at 8:50 has a cockney accent. Watch this space for more!

I dont think that the voices are hard to understand - its mostly middle and upper Class English speaking standard English....

@@mavisemberson8737 touche’. Spot on 😊

No he's brilliant

some people do find him irritating,. I find Petheridges portayal irritating whereas for me Ian Carm has the right balance....

If you are accused of a crime you didnt do ... you would WANT someone like Lord Peter Wimsey to be on your side. Sadly I feel he would be somewhat powerless against todays might of MEDIA PROPAGANDA and MANIPULATION OF PUBLIC OPINION.