Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905) is a novel by E. M. Forster, originally entitled Monteriano. The title comes from a line in Alexander Pope's An Essay on Criticism: "For fools rush in where angels fear to tread". In the 60's, the novel was turned into a play and broadcast on the BBC during that time.. In 1991 it was made into a film by Charles Sturridge, starring Rupert Graves, Giovanni Guidelli, Helen Mirren, Helena Bonham Carter, and Judy Davis.
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In Margrave Of The Marshes, before Peel and Sheila moved to Peel Acres, she mentioned a ritual with Peel on most weekends, where with John Walters and his wife Helen, they would take turns cooking dinner at each others homes, related in some way to a movie on television, which they would watch together on Saturday night:
- "When the film was The Asphalt Jungle, the menu consisted of rock cakes, berries and some kind of 'jungle juice' - a rather lethal punch, if I'm not mistaken. For The Three Musketeers, an assortment of vegetables and baked potatoes were skewered on to a fencing rapier. Where Angels Fear To Tread was accompanied by, among other things, angel cakes and Harp lager, while a film about drugs, the name of which escapes me, Walters and Helen cooked up a pot roast and then wheeled it in - at great speed." (Margrave Of The Marshes, Bantam Press, 2005, p. 302-303.)
The reference to Where Angels Fear To Tread in the book was probably Sheila referring to the BBC play, that was broadcast on television in the 60's, rather than the 1991 film version, which she may have got mixed up with.