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  • Braunschlag
    Full Member
    • Jul 2017
    • 484

    For those with a Northern inclination this is now being broadcast on YT.
    Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.


    Original score by Neil Brand and played by Brighouse and Rastrick brass band. It was recorded live in Morecambe Winter Gardens, a very fine seaside theatre showing some signs of coming back to life.

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    • Braunschlag
      Full Member
      • Jul 2017
      • 484

      For a finale of all things Northern might I recommend this absolute gem -

      A Storyville documentary that recounts how a bunch of amateur film-makers, with nothing left to lose, tackled one of Hollywood's greatest musicals in order to save their beloved Bradford Film Club.


      A proper full fat heartening documentary which will test all your emotional resolve, beautiful!

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      • Nick Armstrong
        Host
        • Nov 2010
        • 26516

        Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
        here in London today it's as quiet as a grave - hardly a soul out and about.
        Mind you, when I drove to family Christmas lunch yesterday, as I do each 25/12 taking advantage of the annual congestion charge suspension to drive right through the centre, I’ve never seen the area near the Abbey and Palace of Westminster so heaving with people, tourists for the most part I assume. They were 3 or 4 deep on each side of Westminster Bridge from one end to the other, ice cream vans doing a roaring trade!


        Originally posted by Braunschlag View Post
        For a finale of all things Northern might I recommend this absolute gem -

        A Storyville documentary that recounts how a bunch of amateur film-makers, with nothing left to lose, tackled one of Hollywood's greatest musicals in order to save their beloved Bradford Film Club.


        A proper full fat heartening documentary which will test all your emotional resolve, beautiful!
        This was great!
        "...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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        • Serial_Apologist
          Full Member
          • Dec 2010
          • 37561

          Night Mail - the famous 1936 Britten/Auden proto-Rap collaboration, is showing next Wednesday (28th Dec) on Talking Pictures TV, at 7.05pm.

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          • eighthobstruction
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 6426

            Originally posted by Braunschlag View Post
            For a finale of all things Northern might I recommend this absolute gem -

            A Storyville documentary that recounts how a bunch of amateur film-makers, with nothing left to lose, tackled one of Hollywood's greatest musicals in order to save their beloved Bradford Film Club.


            A proper full fat heartening documentary which will test all your emotional resolve, beautiful!
            ....yes, as you know I am sure - there are thousands of pensioners like that in Bradford who worked hard in tiring jobs then in the evening did tertiary education and such like clubs on a shoe string....and they are still about....
            bong ching

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            • JasonPalmer
              Full Member
              • Dec 2022
              • 826

              I moved from Yorkshire to Buckinghamshire then London then Kent. Happy in Kent.
              Annoyingly listening to and commenting on radio 3...

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              • Nick Armstrong
                Host
                • Nov 2010
                • 26516

                Originally posted by eighthobstruction View Post
                ....looking forward to Sound Walks on R3 today at 1600hrs https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001g9pn
                On a televisual note, the whimsy and majestic scenery of the Mortimer/Whitehouse north Norway fishing trip provide a rewarding and amusing watch

                Bob and Paul travel to the northern islands of Norway on their most extreme fishing adventure yet and face the mighty maelstrom where tides collide and big fish await.
                "...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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                • Nick Armstrong
                  Host
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 26516

                  Originally posted by jayne lee wilson View Post
                  I tried my best with The English, that weirded-out Western on BBC2, but it was just too damn solemn for me....I didn't make it through. Impatient perhaps, but with something like that, I need some black humour or gallows humour around to keep things sharp
                  I couldn’t stand it either, and you’re right about why, I think
                  "...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
                    • 10337

                    'Detectorists' was as great as I was hoping it would be. Mackenzie Crook is a wonder, in my opinion.

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                    • kernelbogey
                      Full Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 5735

                      Originally posted by Nick Armstrong View Post
                      I couldn’t stand it either, and you’re right about why, I think
                      As with his Rwanda-based series (the name of which I've forgotten) everything (except dialogue comprehesibility) overdone. I lasted one episode.

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                      • seabright
                        Full Member
                        • Jan 2013
                        • 625

                        Originally posted by LHC View Post
                        As you say, this was a repeat of last year’s Christmas University Challenge programmes. A new series of these specials begins tomorrow.
                        Jeremy Paxman admitted in a TV documentary a while ago that he had Parkinson's Disease but evidently he has insisted on keeping on going. I fear his slurred speech in the current UC programmes is causing the participants, and probably the TV audience too, to strain their ears so as to make out what he's saying. His replacement, Amol Rajan, has been announced, though he won't be taking over until the autumn of 2023. This means more ear-straining in the next series, thanks to Paxman's unwillingness to retire gracefully before his condition worsens. Rather a shame though, as he's been a good quiz-master.

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                        • Serial_Apologist
                          Full Member
                          • Dec 2010
                          • 37561

                          Originally posted by seabright View Post
                          Jeremy Paxman admitted in a TV documentary a while ago that he had Parkinson's Disease but evidently he has insisted on keeping on going. I fear his slurred speech in the current UC programmes is causing the participants, and probably the TV audience too, to strain their ears so as to make out what he's saying. His replacement, Amol Rajan, has been announced, though he won't be taking over until the autumn of 2023. This means more ear-straining in the next series, thanks to Paxman's unwillingness to retire gracefully before his condition worsens. Rather a shame though, as he's been a good quiz-master.
                          Was it my imagination, or didn't he tell us he was retiring from it in October? I'd been wondering if the present transmssions had been recorded earlier.

                          Tonight's Harry Enfield effort, "Andrew: The Musical" on Channel 4, was impressively done but probably only as funny as I'd anticipated.

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                          • oddoneout
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2015
                            • 9135

                            Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
                            Was it my imagination, or didn't he tell us he was retiring from it in October? I'd been wondering if the present transmssions had been recorded earlier.
                            I got the impression from the documentary that once the series they were in the middle of recording was done he would vacate his seat, having accepted that there was a limit to how much he was able to do even with the considerable support of the TV team.

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                            • Nick Armstrong
                              Host
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 26516

                              Originally posted by johncorrigan View Post
                              'Detectorists' was as great as I was hoping it would be. Mackenzie Crook is a wonder, in my opinion.
                              Same here
                              "...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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                              • oddoneout
                                Full Member
                                • Nov 2015
                                • 9135

                                Not a recommendation, but it does rather sum up where we are these days with the channel that used to have a broader view of the arts, including music? https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001gpg2

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