Talk:The Flame Trees of Thika

Date?

Is it too much to ask for a date? Trekphiler 17:06, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

Wrong flame tree

The flame tree pictured is the Queensland flame tree from north eastern australia. I think the flame tree in the show was a poincianna. I can't find a picture of one though. --Jaded-view (talk) 18:12, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

Running time

These are not full one-hour shows. Issued in Region 1 (US) by A&E as ISBN 0-7670-7890-X; a set of two DVDs (4:3 aspect ratio) that are listed on the box as totaling 350 mins, an average of 50 minutes each. Actually, the length of each episode varies slightly. Generally a little less than 50 minutes without the ending credits, a little more than 50 minutes with the end credits. -96.233.30.113 (talk) 22:58, 20 January 2010 (UTC)

Authentic?

Much of the interest of watching this is as an historical drama, filmed on location in Thika Kenya. So presumably much of the landscape and wildlife shown is fairly authentic. How about the historic clothing and cars, trains, etc? What about the relations between the English colonists and the natives, shown from the perspective of the colonists? Who were the actors that played the native roles? What did they think of the way history was being portrayed? Were they Kenyan? What about the uncredited actors playing the minor roles of natives? Was the construction of the colonists' homes shown authentic? -96.233.30.113 (talk) 23:01, 20 January 2010 (UTC)

It was historic enough. Elspeth Huxley's mother was a prominent member of the Kenyan eugenics movement. Check out: Race and Empire: Eugenics in Colonial Kenya, by Chloe Campbell, reviewed by Professor Barbara Bush - http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/review/632 - This book also deals with the Huxleys.

The leading figures in the eugenics movement were doctors and psychiatrists and progressive settlers such as Eleanor 'Nellie' Grant, mother of Elspeth Huxley, the biographer of Lord Delamere, the British aristocrat who established the colony as a private fiefdom and remained central in Kenyan settler politics until his death in 1931. Much eugenics research in Kenya was directed to the question of mental deficiency, or 'amentia', in Africans, pathologising the brain of the Kenyan native as inferior.

MrSativa (talk) 23:18, 17 October 2014 (UTC)

No article for the book?

Why is there no article for the book? Surely the ISBN could be mentioned? 86.179.228.180 (talk) 22:26, 3 August 2011 (UTC)