Last week Sunday I saw unintentially, while looking to the teletext of the French language Belgian TV RTBF an interesting episode about a kind of a crimi located near Cambridge and describing local nobility? and Anglican vicars and all that. This morning the same scenario and even more interested in the new episode, as it is really the kind of plot and playing I like, the English stuff, not comparable with all the American series.
Of course the RTBF and France follow the rule of dubbing in French, but I listened to the French and at the same time reading the French subtitles.

That said I did this evening some quick research and found:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9470322/
You can watch the whole series if you subscribe and perhaps pay...and I have not a connection to pay...and to ask the granddaughter for such a futility...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grantchester_(TV_series)
And it is based on a serie of books
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grantchester_Mysteries
written by the son of the former archbishop of Canterbury
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Runcie

That would be something for Minette, our Vicar's daughter...or Temperance, now in summer "retreat" she said, promising if I understood it well, only for a while...

Kind regards from Paul.

For a moment I thought you meant the "Barchester" novels of Anthony Trollope, Paul.  I'm a fan of "whodunnits" but I haven't seen "Granchester".

Lady,

yes now I see why...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronicles_of_Barsetshire
I had a vague rememberance that Trollope was a writer...I think you overestimate the knowledge of the British writers in the Benelux (Low Countries)...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Trollope

In that time the Dutch language literature wasn't that prolific as the British one...also seen the size of the population...and in Belgium you had only the start of the literary Dutch language novels, not highlights yet...but a noble prize in 1911 from French language literature
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Maeterlinck

Some two highlights of the Dutch language literature:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederik_van_Eeden
And the rebel: Eduard Douwes Dekker
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multatuli
And his masterpiece:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multatuli
And we had to read big chunks of the book at school among others: the Idyll of Saïdjah and Adinda
https://www.bartleby.com/library/prose/1605.html


But no Grantchester starts in 1950, my time..the modern time (perhaps after seventy years also already old-fashioned ).
And written by the son of the Archbishop of Canterbury (a recent one), so the author knows the world that he describes...

Kind regards from Paul.

We watch Grantchester: I probably enjoy it more than my husband, mostly because I enjoy Robson Green, who is the policeman friend of the vicar. A new season has just started here and I think it has different characters. It is quite light but deals with quite weighty issues - homosexuality in the church, extra-marital sex. Being set in the 50s the series shows these as more important than they might be now (on the other hand, they don't have to deal with the present-day events of sexual abuse of young boys, etc.). 
I hadn't realised James Runcie was the son of a former Archbishop of Canterbury, but then I haven't read any of them.

Caro,

yes that Robson Green, nearly a James Stewart type...
The season that I started to watch at the third episode is indeed with Robson Green and the cast as mentioned in the wiki that I gave in my opening message, is said as "the present" one...
And indeed the fourth or fifth episode was with a "capelan?", who had first said that the figurehead didn't well his job to the hiearchy and received a punch in the face and then a scene in the church, the capelan alone sobbing and the figurehead coming to cheer him up...that people can be homosexual...then the lady called and I had to stop watching...the next episodes I will put on the hard disc of my cable television connexion...
But I like the series very much too...

Tropical heat overhere...tomorrow 40° Centigrade (105° Fahrenheit) as if we are in an Australian summer...nearly an hour pouring water in the garden on bushes and flowers...and pumping water from the rainwater underground citern in two plastic open drums of 200L...

Caro, I know I can all seek it on internet, but perhaps you can say it from the top of your head...For my thread about the Homo Sapiens in Australia...when arrived the first human in New Zealand?  and was it already a Homo Sapiens?...

Kind regards from Paul.

Hello Paul, it is relatively recently that the first humans arrived here: about 700 years ago, I think. They were from Polynesia and became known as Maori. They came in canoes known as waka, and it is known that the trips must have been deliberately taken, as they had women aboard and didn't seem to be intending to go back. They were excellent navigators, using the stars and bird and tide movements to direct them.  
It is exactly 250 years since Captain James Cook landed with with Tupaia as his guide. We are now wondering how to acknowledge this landing: the 200th anniversary was made with some fanfare, but now Maori are more forthcoming about English colonisation having a serious impact on their culture.

Robson Green has spent some of his time on a reality show about fishing in recent years.  Another programme where he had a leading role was Wire in the Blood where he played a profiler (the series was based on one of Val McDermid's crime series).  The first thing I remember him in was Casualty playing a porter.  In the 1990s he was in Soldier, Soldier with Jerome Flynn.  Jerome Flynn took some years of leave of absence from acting but then nabbed himself a role on Game of Thrones so he's back in the public eye now.

Paul,

Re one of the main characters in Grantchester, the vicar, apparently this figure was sketched somewhat on the father of the author who during WWII had been an officer in the Scots Guards, and so far is the last - and perhaps only - Archbishop of Canterbury to have received/earned/won a Military Cross for having killed people.
For a while I followed the series until the time it was aired on here was changed.

Nielsen, Caro and LiR,

" the vicar, apparently this figure was sketched somewhat on the father of the author who during WWII had been an officer in the Scots Guards, and so far is the last - and perhaps only - Archbishop of Canterbury to have received/earned/won a Military Cross for having killed people."
Nielsen, you are right as I read in this wiki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Runcie

What a colourfull Archbishop and Liberal...

"It is exactly 250 years since Captain James Cook landed with with Tupaia as his guide. We are now wondering how to acknowledge this landing: the 200th anniversary was made with some fanfare, but now Maori are more forthcoming about English colonisation having a serious impact on their culture."
Caro, thanks for the reply about the recent arrival of people in New Zealand.
In the documentary that I mentioned they mention the beach where the first landing of Western people took place, the landing of the Dutch Duyfken, but not what one thinks about this happening, but they found bones of original Homo Sapiens there and now they took DNA samples from nowadays original people (over a thousand) to make a relationship of their present DNA with that of the found Homo...
And it is done in Denmark, Nielsen...Is there a renowed university specialized in such research in your country...?


Kind regards to the three of you from Paul.