Pride and Prejudice
The BBC have just finished replaying their famous version of P&P. I watched the final episode, and its even better the second time around - wonderfully coy and multi-layered.
But the best thing was the promotion they have been showing. On grainy old videotape you see Mr Darcy climb out of the water in front of Elizabeth in the famous scene. Suddenly the action reverses as if you pressed the rewind button. He climbs out again, and again, and again.
Finally it pauses on a wet Darcy, and a woman says in a breathy, sultry voiceover: ‘Hearts will be heaving’.
I laughed lots