Well worth listening to this discussion on Ken's new documentary The Spirit of 45 from this morning's programme:
PR blurb:
Fielding in the Grauniad demurs:
PR blurb:
Fielding in the Grauniad demurs:
-
-
I thought ken sounded out of touch all in all....and not a very good person to have in a studio discussion as he just tried to trash other people ideas and push his own , as if he had a perogative on the truth....
....I have not looked at links yet....bong ching -
I felt he was living in a nostalgic bubble. Sadly I didn't feel I learned anything from the discussion. Would like to see the play This House which was discussed, but can't see any indication at the NT that it's going on tour to the sticks. Does anyone know different?Comment
-
Not aware of any tour, JimD, but I see that on May 16 my fairly local cinema has a live broadcast of This House from the NT so it may well be on at a cinema near you either on that date or around then.Would like to see the play This House which was discussed, but can't see any indication at the NT that it's going on tour to the sticks. Does anyone know different?Comment
-
That's the live relay I think, so the date should be the same everywhere.
Repeats may be different.Comment
-
Thanks folks: I see it's being shown live on that date at the National Media Museum in Bradford--you live and learn. This isn't something I have tried before so perhaps now's the time.Comment
-
Apart from at one place querying quotes in Harriet Sergent's report, which was maybe a bit out of order, what did KL say to disagree with?Originally posted by eighthobstruction View PostComment
-
er i am with Fielding and the dangers of rose tinted specs .... to the extent that the people were radicalised one might argue that it was the Atlee Government's successes with the Health Service, nationalised industries, and the Beveridge reforms ... and then some of the workers voted Tory for 13 years of Tory rule from 51 to 64 with large middle class defections from the 1945 labour vote ...According to the best estimates of astronomers there are at least one hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe.Comment
-
He came very close to accusing Harriet Sergeant of misrepresentation, presumably because the young men she was claiming to
quote were claimed to be saying things that he didn't like/expect. (I make no defence of her: but I found his apparently instinctive reaction telling.)Comment
-
I agree about Ken's "nostalgic bubble". Amongst some disgruntled Easterners in Germany there is quite a prevalent phenomenon called Ostalgie (nostalgia for the old East Germany). "Goodbye, Lenin" was quite a good film on the subject.Originally posted by JimD View Post
We went to "This House" on Saturday. It is well worth seeing, funny and hard-hitting, and with some contemporary resonance. It's on until May.
PS The Austrians seem be getting nostalgic about the NazisComment
-
....as said by others....nostalgia bubble (both positive 1945-negative 79 -Nationalisation)....and Calums points....I felt KEN was the Elephant in the room....Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Postbong chingComment
-
-
For being nostalgic for an era which looked to a better future and built for it?Originally posted by eighthobstruction View PostComment
-
I dare say other interviewees look forward to a better future and hope to build it....but have not just had ww2....bong chingComment
-
No idea. One can only speculate that they didn't fit his preferred narrative.Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View PostComment
Comment