The Hour: an analogy and metaphor for the present

stanley_b

My wife and I have only just come across The Hour. We considered the acting excellent. The story was sequential, absorbing and compelling.

I was born and raised in the U.K. I was 16 years old in 1956; the year of Suez and the Hungarian uprising. I remember them well. Those events as depicted in the series relate well to the memories I have of those times. Also, in contrast to some anonymous comments, the day to day personal issues and interactions are compatible with my own memories of those times; the only possible exception being the amount of alcohol consumed by both sexes at the BBC.

The main point of the series for me however is that it depicts how the issues of today would have been exposed had they occurred in those days; but not today. Today such exposures are either not current or are smothered under the guise of the public good and safety. It is not surprising that the series was not continued. Indeed it is surprising that it was shown at all, by the BBC.

Barry Stanley

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stanley_b 24 August 2015

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