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  • kernelbogey
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 5735

    Film on BBC tv: The Death of Stalin

    If you missed this in the cinema, it's worth watching here on iPlayer: good fun:
    Moscow, 1953 - Stalin dies, and members of the Council of Ministers scramble for power.

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    • eighthobstruction
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 6425

      Originally posted by kernelbogey View Post
      Film on BBC tv: The Death of Stalin

      If you missed this in the cinema, it's worth watching here on iPlayer: good fun:
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod...eath-of-stalin
      ....very enjoyable....

      ....Also watched The Mauritanian....Excellent....rings true,,,,https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod...he-mauritanian
      bong ching

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      • eighthobstruction
        Full Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 6425

        ....On the ITV Hub at moment all the series of the zany, lovable, silly Parks and Recreation....I find it a must when I don't fancy anything else....

        ....also on ITV Hub....30 Rock with Tina Fey....fast/furious....but tickles my fancy....

        ....
        bong ching

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        • Serial_Apologist
          Full Member
          • Dec 2010
          • 37559

          Last night's Holst and Vaughan Williams: Making Music English (BBC4) was pretty good for an hour-long documentary focussed on their close friendship and mutual influence. Albeit restricted largely to the usual handful of works, such as Lark Ascending and The Planets, it succeeded (for me) in linking several factors that render both figureheads prophetic in terms wider than the provincial and national so often emphasised to embrace social, political and environmental questions of growing relevance today.

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          • DracoM
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            • Mar 2007
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            • JasonPalmer
              Full Member
              • Dec 2022
              • 826

              Looks like sundays evening on bbc four full of classical programs... https://www.bbc.co.uk/schedules/p00fzl6b/2023/06/04
              Annoyingly listening to and commenting on radio 3...

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              • Serial_Apologist
                Full Member
                • Dec 2010
                • 37559

                Originally posted by JasonPalmer View Post
                Looks like sundays evening on bbc four full of classical programs... https://www.bbc.co.uk/schedules/p00fzl6b/2023/06/04
                Thanks for posting the link, Jason.

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                • Pianoman
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                  • Jan 2013
                  • 529

                  For anyone interested, just a heads-up that the long-awaited (for some of us) Tippett documentary from John Bridcut is airing this coming Thursday - and BBC 2 primetime 9.00 pm !

                  The fascinating life and music of British composer Michael Tippett, who died in 1998.

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                  • Pulcinella
                    Host
                    • Feb 2014
                    • 10872

                    Originally posted by Pianoman View Post
                    For anyone interested, just a heads-up that the long-awaited (for some of us) Tippett documentary from John Bridcut is airing this coming Thursday - and BBC 2 primetime 9.00 pm !

                    https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001mpvt
                    There's a separate thread about it, but an extra alert is always useful!

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                    • Pianoman
                      Full Member
                      • Jan 2013
                      • 529

                      Originally posted by Pulcinella View Post
                      There's a separate thread about it, but an extra alert is always useful!

                      http://www.for3.org/forums/showthrea...-and-the-Light
                      Ah thanks - I meant to look but.....))

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                      • JasonPalmer
                        Full Member
                        • Dec 2022
                        • 826

                        The story behind Allegri's Miserere, one of the most popular pieces of sacred music.


                        Simon Russell Beale tells the story behind Allegri's Miserere, one of the most popular pieces of sacred music ever written. The programme features a full performance of the piece by the award-winning choir the Sixteen, conducted by Harry Christophers.

                        Looks interesting, hope to catch on iplayer later in the week.
                        Annoyingly listening to and commenting on radio 3...

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                        • smittims
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                          • Aug 2022
                          • 4039

                          Yes, it's a story well-told. Many people still seem unaware of how much the work has been altered from Allegri's simple original. The famous high note, for instance, which , together with the Mozart anecdote, has ensured its continuing populatrity, was a later insertion.

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                          • Tevot
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 1011

                            Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
                            ... Apart from Richd: Tarleton's comment from August 2018 above, I can't find any references on this thread to Succession. Have people here not been watching / relishing this?
                            I came to Succession quite late - Season 3 was being aired and I binged on the previous two in order to catch up. Finished watching Season 4 last week and the finale imho packed a real punch. Belgrove mentioned being impressed by the Brits in the cast - and Matthew Macfadyen springs to mind (playing an apparently effete mediocrity who blindsides the main protagonists) and obviously Brian Cox which was the reason I decided to follow it in the first place. However, kudos too to non Brits Kieran Culkin and Alexander Skarsgard who impressed me greatly in radically different roles. Great ensemble acting throughout too...and the music throughout was brilliantly done - echoing at times Beethoven, Schubert and Chopin to name but a few...

                            Watched Manhunt recently (featuring Martin Clunes) and thought it very well crafted and acted...

                            The Jury is still out on Shane Meadows' "The Gallows Pole" - some striking imagery and an air of mystery. I really enjoyed the first episode and was gripped by it. Episode 2 however at least to me lacked cohesion and focus with long scenes of actors ad-libbing without adding to the drama or plot. Hope episode 3 manages to convince...

                            Aired tonight (Monday in the UK) I'm looking forward to seeing "Best Interests" with Michael Sheen and Sharon Horgan - and I'll get the opportunity to see it tomorrow once available here in Shanghai...

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                            • johncorrigan
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 10335

                              Originally posted by Tevot View Post

                              The Jury is still out on Shane Meadows' "The Gallows Pole" - some striking imagery and an air of mystery. I really enjoyed the first episode and was gripped by it. Episode 2 however at least to me lacked cohesion and focus with long scenes of actors ad-libbing without adding to the drama or plot. Hope episode 3 manages to convince...
                              I read the book last year and thought it fascinating. This series seems to be a sort of prequel to the book, Tevot. I don't recall much of it being covered in Myers' book. Episode two was quite funny, but otherwise I would agree with your comments. The character playing Grace is very good, but too much ad-libbing and too little dramatic tension, which the book is full of, but then again this isn't the book.

                              Re 'Manhunt', I recall when it came out and thought it was excellent. Haven't seen 'Succession'...don't think I've got the right channel.

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                              • vinteuil
                                Full Member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 12765

                                ... sadly it seems that (for the moment, at least) Talking Pictures is only offering the first sixteen episodes : after Maigret and the Old Lady (episode 16, to be shown on 13 June) we revert to programmes already shown : on 20 June Maigret in Montmartre (episode four), followed by The Burglar's Wife (episode one, 27 June) and The Flemish Shop (episode two, 4 July) et ainsi de suite...

                                EDIT - tho' I see we have had episode 21, War of Nerves / La TĂȘte d'un homme on 30 May...

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                                Last edited by vinteuil; 13-06-23, 13:34.

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