I could not agree with Judi Dench more. What I have seen of it (and it is not a great deal because I found it so utterly woeful) DOES purport to be 'real' and 'historical' -- the events, the conversations DID all take place in real life -- but as someone who was around when they actually...
I took a huge pile of washing to my local laundromat the other day to get it dried. All went well; I came home (about 10kms). Suddenly a firm knock on my back door -- NOT the street address. I was startled to find a dark-skinned young woman there. She checked if my name was S---- J----- and...