I love the series, I really do-BUT the reaearch team is either egregiously lazy or non-existent. I understand the plethora of multicultural characters being put into roles that certainly do not reflect the Cambridge of 1959, but we've got boxes to tick, after all. What is
diminishing my respect for the producers and the enjoyment if the series are the increasing anachronisms that they're allowing. One of the great appealing characteristics of watching a Masterpiece production is the meticulous attention to period details. This is falling by the wayside- it's supposed to be 1959- yet they're playing a song that wasn't released until 1965. There's a woman of color as a full professor at Cambridge, where women did not receive degrees until 1948 and though the first female professor was appointed in 1939 and a Black man could not get tenure as a professor until 2004!
This information is instantly available on the Internet, so it puzzles me why producers would not have checked things like the release dates of music or films or books. Also, if the goal is to get people to be more tolerant of those who are unlike themselves, why pretend that the Grantchester (and Kembleford for that matter ) community was as diverse as it appears to be? They did a phenomenal job with the appalling challenges faced by Leonard as a gay man. Stop insulting the intelligence of viewers by pretending that most of a small English village embraced outsiders in the 1950s. And please stop imposing 21st century norms and vernacular in 1950s Britain. If I want to be lectured on tolerance and aghast at lazy writing , I'll watch the CW.