Talk:Home Fires (British TV series)

theme music by Samuel Sim

• lifeofwylie.com/2015/05/01/home-fires-interviews/

The memorable Home Fires main theme was written by series composer Samuel Sim.

The soundtrack features the collective vocal talents of Heather Cairncross, Joanna Forbes L’Estrange, Rachel Weston and Grace Davidson plus musicians Chris Richards (clarinet), Ileana Ruhemann (flute) and Caroline Dale (cello).

-71.174.188.32 (talk) 03:00, 24 October 2015 (UTC)

• www.heathercairncross.com/home-fires-theme-music/

"For me it was just another demo session – Micaela Haslam (Musical Director of Synergy Vocals) booked the four singers. I was lucky enough to be joined by a top team of session singers: Grace Davidson, Joanna Forbes L’Estrange and Rachel Weston) and we turned up at Angel Studios with the brief that Samuel Sim (The Mill, Coalition, Touch Of Cloth) wanted to record a few ideas in different ways so that he could put them together for a pitch to ITV. He was submitting music to try to become the composer for a new series called Home Fires. We often do this for TV and Ads but, to be honest, not many are successful. First we recorded the four individual parts together as a quartet and then tracked them up. We then swapped music stands, sung the next part and did this again until we had all sung every one of the four parts."

-71.174.188.32 (talk) 04:11, 11 November 2015 (UTC)

length uncertain

A strange length mystery here! The article currently says 44-46min. The Oct 2015 WGBH PBS broadcasts are running 51min of core content, plus credits etc (in a 60min broadcast slot). Amazon UK says 273min for the DVD, which averages 45.5min. Amazon US says 360min, which is probably based on a bogus nominal 60min per episode. A reviewer there says:

"Review of the Bluray of this British miniseries – this is the full UK Version

By Steve Ramm TOP 100 REVIEWER on October 13, 2015

Format: Blu-ray

This 4 ½ hour series (six 47-minute episodes) was produced in 2015 by the British commercial network ITV – the reason it is less than an hour. It aired on PBS in the US in a somewhat edited edition. ( I didn’t see the TV version but there some expletives.). And the package says “Full UK-Length Edition” "

Based on all these clues, it seems like the US broadcasts are at least 6mins longer per episode than the original UK ITV broadcasts -- which would be very unusual. And it also seems that the DVD versions in the UK and the US contain the shorter UK version, not the longer US version.-71.174.188.32 (talk) 15:25, 24 October 2015 (UTC)

Short summaries

The short summaries are not good enough and look like they have been copied from a TV guide. The problem is the summaries ask questions. Wikipedia is supposed to be an encyclopedia for answers not questions. They should be rewritten by leaving out the questions. REVUpminster (talk) 17:31, 5 April 2016 (UTC)