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  • pastoralguy
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 7759

    Originally posted by Heldenleben View Post
    I wish R3 would repeat their quite magnificent original cast recording of the National Theatre Production of ‘The Invention Of Love.’ I think it’s Stoppard’s best play ( of the dozen I’ve read , seen , or heard ) - extraordinarily moving , funny , intelligent. I have an off air cassette recording but a broken TEAC machine. Almost worth buying another just to hear it again,,
    For some reason the play wasn’t mentioned in the otherwise excellent recent doc…or if it was it must have been on the ten mins I missed .
    It may be worth your while finding a company who can transfer the cassette to cd or even a digital file. There’s a chap in Wales who advertises on eBay that I’ve used many times who does a good job.

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    • Dave2002
      Full Member
      • Dec 2010
      • 18021

      Not sure whether to recommend or not. Watched the first episode of Paris Police 1900 - which oddly seems to be based on history. Rather gory, and I do wonder if the credits could actually say "No animals were harmed in the making of this film" with any honesty.

      Even if that was legit, representing a live pig being killed - even in a fake sequence - is not pleasant viewing - and seemed like gratuitous violence. OTOH seeing body parts - again unpleasant - is perhaps something which police do have to come to experience from time to time, and the unwrapping of a torso from a bag is plausible.These things do sometimes happen I guess, and it's a matter of taste whether we should see them in dramas such as this.

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      • Bryn
        Banned
        • Mar 2007
        • 24688

        Zappa, a documentary aired on BBC FOUR last night, https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0010rl8/zappa

        His opening remarks regarding the then future of Czechoslovakia have failed to blossom, unfortunately. Well worth watching.

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        • Nick Armstrong
          Host
          • Nov 2010
          • 26536

          Originally posted by Dave2002 View Post
          Not sure whether to recommend or not. Watched the first episode of Paris Police 1900 - which oddly seems to be based on history. Rather gory, and I do wonder if the credits could actually say "No animals were harmed in the making of this film" with any honesty.

          Even if that was legit, representing a live pig being killed - even in a fake sequence - is not pleasant viewing - and seemed like gratuitous violence. OTOH seeing body parts - again unpleasant - is perhaps something which police do have to come to experience from time to time, and the unwrapping of a torso from a bag is plausible.These things do sometimes happen I guess, and it's a matter of taste whether we should see them in dramas such as this.
          My #1837 above is about this series. I like it!
          "...the isle is full of noises,
          Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
          Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
          Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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          • jayne lee wilson
            Banned
            • Jul 2011
            • 10711

            Originally posted by Bryn View Post
            Zappa, a documentary aired on BBC FOUR last night, https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0010rl8/zappa

            His opening remarks regarding the then future of Czechoslovakia have failed to blossom, unfortunately. Well worth watching.
            Looking forward to this late-night..... forgot to record, thanks for the reminder....

            This is compelling too if you have the access.....

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            • Dave2002
              Full Member
              • Dec 2010
              • 18021

              Originally posted by Nick Armstrong View Post
              My #1837 above is about this series. I like it!
              Does it maintain the goriness, or does it change emphasis?

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              • Nick Armstrong
                Host
                • Nov 2010
                • 26536

                Originally posted by Dave2002 View Post
                Does it maintain the goriness, or does it change emphasis?
                Only on Ep 3 so far…
                "...the isle is full of noises,
                Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                • johncorrigan
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 10363

                  I did not like 'The Office', so over the years have tended to avoid Stephen Merchant. In the last wee while I have heard him on radio and seen him on TV and thought that I should stop the avoiding. I heard him plug his Bristol based show 'The Outlaws' over the weekend, and thought it sounded interesting. It centres round an assortment of people who are on community service orders. I watched the first episode last night and thought it was funny, and also a wee bit thrilling with some fine performances, including Merchant himself, and Christopher Walken. I'll certainly be watching episode 2.
                  Seven bickering Bristol lawbreakers stuck together on community payback try to keep their noses clean – but can they? With Stephen Merchant, Jessica Gunning and Christopher Walken.

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                  • Boilk
                    Full Member
                    • Dec 2010
                    • 976

                    Sky Arts 9pm, Tuesday 9th November

                    Anton Bruckner: The Making of a Giant (2020)

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                    • jayne lee wilson
                      Banned
                      • Jul 2011
                      • 10711

                      Thanks for the Bruckner, B......

                      Even if like me, this album became all too familiar to you back then, this film is still compelling.....
                      The story behind Simon and Garfunkel's most famous album, Bridge over Troubled Water.


                      Going into minute and gritty detail about its inspiration and creation, the consequences for both artists...
                      Great to see The Wrecking Crew musicians getting their due credits for it too...albums like this can take a lot of making...
                      Last edited by jayne lee wilson; 09-11-21, 14:41.

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                      • cloughie
                        Full Member
                        • Dec 2011
                        • 22126

                        Watching Masterchef last night and mention of Canon of Lamb and wondered if it was written by John Tavener!
                        Last edited by cloughie; 09-11-21, 08:55.

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                        • Serial_Apologist
                          Full Member
                          • Dec 2010
                          • 37689

                          Originally posted by cloughie View Post
                          Watching Masterchef last night and mention of Canon of Lamb and wondered if it was written by John Tavener!
                          Any more remarks like that, and you'll be for the chop!

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                          • Padraig
                            Full Member
                            • Feb 2013
                            • 4237

                            Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
                            Any more remarks like that, and you'll be for the chop!
                            Bah!

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                            • johncorrigan
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 10363

                              Chanced on this very moving film on BBC Scotland last night, made about an elderly man who has lived as a hermit in Lochaber for the last 40 years, and is now having to deal with declining health and more support from the outside world...'The Hermit of Treig'.
                              An elderly hermit questions whether he can live out his last years in the wilderness.

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                              • oddoneout
                                Full Member
                                • Nov 2015
                                • 9204

                                I have mentioned this programme "The hidden wilds of the motorway" about the M25 previously and see it is being repeated on BBC2 this evening https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000kjm9
                                Given this government's attitude to the health and cleanliness of rivers as seen in the news recently the section about the River Chess takes on an added topicality, but it isn't a green tub-thumping programme.

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