So the BBC's Christmas adaptation of The Thirty-Nine Steps was full of howlers: a bi-plane with a machine gun attached in 1914, 1920s cars, 1950s railway carriages, a German submarine popping up in a freshwater loch rather than in one attached to the sea, and so forth?
Well, what did anyone expect? The part of Richard Hannay was given to Rupert Penry-Jones, a star of Spooks, quite the most ludicrously false depiction of "intelligence" and "security" work imaginable.
Mind you, Spooks has clear political agenda (just look at the people credited as story consultants or what have you), which is not an excuse, but which is at least an explanation. How does the BBC explain this one?
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