Dear Jim and lists, I think you maybe right Jim, which will be a shame. One of my fellow researches here in Hobart was approached when it was first thought to do a film, but after much to and fro and with lots of information sent by her to them she heard no more. She was very surprised to get my email that it had been completed. The Synopsis was sent from England to Cape Town and then to me. Maybe I will have to think up something to do from here in Hobart where 60 of the Lady Juliana's women lived out their lives. Many of them arrived on the Lady Nelson and the other ships from Norfolk Island, and as I have access to the Lady Nelson to do excursions in the River Derwent during 2007-8 to celebrate the arrivals, I could make a special day for them. If anyone reading this would be interested in taking part please email me off line. Only last week the Lady Nelson was used by the Female Factory to re-enact the convict women off the Harmony, it was a great success. It is not a sudden interest Jim as I have been in contact with many of the descendants of these women for years, many of them I see and work with every week here in Hobart. Maybe I will have to think of writing profiles on them all, have quite a few already. Irene Email: schafferi@optusnet.com.au Website: http://members.optusnet.com.au/~schafferi (including Norfolk Island and Van Diemens Land list) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Halsey" <jehalsey@gmail.com> To: <AUS-TAS-CONVICTS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, February 05, 2006 9:52 AM Subject: Re: [TAS-CON] Fw: The Lady Juliana > Hello list, > > I am not sure why there is this sudden interest in the subject, other > the assumpion that if it has been made ino a TV programme then it must > be better than anything you can read on the subject ! If you read > Irene Schaffer's synopsis you have it all !! As far as the programme > goes that is !! I suspect that books on the subject may well be more > informative and interesting, but they run on a bit longer than Irene's > note, and they may of course be short of imaginative visual > re-creations ! The visual extras are a few mock-up scenes of 17th c > London and lots of young women in raggety period costumes, plus a few > shots of a sailing ship on a calm sea. As for winds and waves, what > are they ? Not a single passenger seems to have been sea-sick on the > entire journey !! The rest is an imaginary Australia of the time (or > later) with which most listers will be more than familiar. > > So don't press for its showing in Australia, you could just be disappointed !! > > But, for all that, enjoy the prospect, which, more often than not in > this life is better than the reality !! > > From your least favourite English spoil-sport, Jim Halsey, within > the range, may the good Lord help me, of BBC transmitters. > > > ==== AUS-TAS-CONVICTS Mailing List ==== > Visit Jenny Fawcett's Tasmanian Convicts website at > http://www.genseek.net/constas.htm > > ============================== > Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. > Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx > >