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  • oddoneout
    Full Member
    • Nov 2015
    • 9135

    Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
    A plug for Secrets of the London Underground - a series featuring on several channels, hosted by two delightful and enthusiastic presenters, Siddy Holloway - who just happens to curate at the London Transport Museum (nice job!), and her friend Tim Dunn. We are led into hidden worlds of tunnels deep underground to discover often long-abandoned places and disused sections of the tube network including shut stations, revealing customised corridor lining tiles, lift shafts and ticket halls that are no more, fossilized escalators replete with 1930s fittings and posters, tattered remnants of adverts from way back in time, dust-covered machinery, and old technologies. One learns so much about not just the history, but London itself from this unexpected but indispensable perspective. My huge respect goes for all those we owe The Tube to, from the pioneers, planners, technicians and designers to the work forces, past and present.

    Some (at least) of the series can be found on this link, and I cannot recommend the programmes on Earl's Court, Paddington and Waterloo stations too highly. - it's free if you wish, but you have to sign on.

    http://u.co.uk/shows/secrets-of-the-...d/watch-online
    I've watched some of these in the past but unfortunately can't access its current Freeview home since the last digibox update. As ever when I watch programmes like these, and others on archaeology/ industrial heritage etc I am amazed at how just much structural history is still hidden in such a small and often densely developed country.

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    • gurnemanz
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 7380

      Thanks for nudge, SA, re Secrets of the London Underground. I have watched most of the previous prigrammes. A fascinating combination of new insights and unconsidered trifles. The two presenters have an infectious enthusiasm for their subject and play off each other nicely.

      I will catch up via Sky on Yesterday channel. Also on Freeview but not HD.

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      • gurnemanz
        Full Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 7380

        I spotted Melvyn Bragg's Art Matters coming up on Sky Arts next week. Promises to be a significant contribution.

        TV listings for all UK channels on Freeview, Sky TV, Virgin, BT TV and more: BBC, Film4, Sky Sports, Channel 5, ITV. Find out what's on TV today, tonight and further ahead.

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        • eighthobstruction
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 6425

          ....Champions : Full Gallop https://www.itv.com/watch/champions:...gallop/10a5197 Excellent entertainment value....informative, narrative, a good watch....which did not get much pre screening hype (considiering ITV's means of business, I find they are very poor at delivering pre screening info)
          bong ching

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          • vinteuil
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 12765

            on netflix - The Tour de France : Unchained (2022 and 2023)

            Through tears and triumph, this engrossing docuseries follows several elite cycling teams as they compete in the world's most grueling bike race.


            " Excellent entertainment value....informative, narrative, a good watch... "

            ( I still don't really understand how the Tour de France works, but these series have been very helpful - very good narrative structure, and you get really interested in the personal stories. It's still a bonkers sport - "an exercise in pointless suffering", as Lance Armstrong put it. )

            .

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            • eighthobstruction
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 6425

              .....Unchained ....brilliant series....brilliant
              bong ching

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              • LMcD
                Full Member
                • Sep 2017
                • 8396

                I thought I'd had my fill of wild-life documentaries, but I have to say that the 3-part series on Patagonia currently being (re)broadcast on BBC4 and iPlayer really is exceptional.

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                • eighthobstruction
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 6425

                  Originally posted by gurnemanz View Post
                  I spotted Melvyn Bragg's Art Matters coming up on Sky Arts next week. Promises to be a significant contribution.

                  https://www.tvguide.co.uk/schedule/9...d8/art-matters
                  review of above....https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-r...time-and-money
                  bong ching

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                  • gurnemanz
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 7380

                    Originally posted by eighthobstruction View Post
                    Yet to watch. Looks to be not essential viewing.

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                    • LMcD
                      Full Member
                      • Sep 2017
                      • 8396

                      Originally posted by gurnemanz View Post

                      Yet to watch. Looks to be not essential viewing.
                      (Never let it be said that MB is prone to hiding his light under a bushel).

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                      • smittims
                        Full Member
                        • Aug 2022
                        • 4040

                        I'm watching it . I think his choice of artists is rather odd; they (with the exception of Gormley) wouldn't convince me of the value of art if I wasn't already convinced from childhood. And how sad that a third of the programme was adverts ; fortunately I can edit them out before watching,

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                        • Old Grumpy
                          Full Member
                          • Jan 2011
                          • 3594

                          "Strictly"

                          I can't recommend it because I've never watched it, but I do recommend that it's dropped!


                          Last edited by Old Grumpy; 28-07-24, 21:14.

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                          • LMcD
                            Full Member
                            • Sep 2017
                            • 8396

                            Latest update from Talking Pictures includes a broad hint that they might be bringing us 'Z Cars' before too long.

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                            • burning dog
                              Full Member
                              • Dec 2010
                              • 1509

                              Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
                              A plug for Secrets of the London Underground - a series featuring on several channels, hosted by two delightful and enthusiastic presenters, Siddy Holloway - who just happens to curate at the London Transport Museum (nice job!), and her friend Tim Dunn. We are led into hidden worlds of tunnels deep underground to discover often long-abandoned places and disused sections of the tube network including shut stations, revealing customised corridor lining tiles, lift shafts and ticket halls that are no more, fossilized escalators replete with 1930s fittings and posters, tattered remnants of adverts from way back in time, dust-covered machinery, and old technologies. One learns so much about not just the history, but London itself from this unexpected but indispensable perspective. My huge respect goes for all those we owe The Tube to, from the pioneers, planners, technicians and designers to the work forces, past and present.

                              Some (at least) of the series can be found on this link, and I cannot recommend the programmes on Earl's Court, Paddington and Waterloo stations too highly. - it's free if you wish, but you have to sign on.

                              http://u.co.uk/shows/secrets-of-the-...d/watch-online
                              Siddy Holloway's real name is Sigurbjörg Alma Ingólfsdóttir. Siddy is a nickname based on her first name. The Holloway part is named after Holloway Road tube station!

                              Nice job indeed!

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                              • Serial_Apologist
                                Full Member
                                • Dec 2010
                                • 37560

                                Originally posted by burning dog View Post

                                Siddy Holloway's real name is Sigurbjörg Alma Ingólfsdóttir. Siddy is a nickname based on her first name. The Holloway part is named after Holloway Road tube station!

                                Nice job indeed!
                                I hadn't known that, so thank you for that information. Siddy has a certain Nordic look about her, although the very perfect RP English she shares with Tim would surely have her down as English-educated, and both almost certainly as being public school.

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