kate clarke

I admired the restraint shown in the script and by the actors. The temptation is always to sensationalise and sell simplistic polarised explanations for complex human motivations. If anything I’d have liked a series in order to have explored this aspect even more. What must it have been like, being an intelligent woman in this particular time? Watching men making decisions in isolation from the consequences. Because there is an entirely different version of history just beginning to be told here. Which of course for those seeking goodies and baddies, action and drama, wouldn’t work at all. The only thing that really confused me was Joan’s wardrobe. As a single woman, presumably on a lowish wage, she had some exquisitely tailored outfits.