Recommended Television Programmes

[LMcD]

I hope it will be seen by those maniacs who mob the M&S food hall in the week before Xmas loading their trolley sky high . They're a mystery to me.

Won't they all be watching cookery programmes?

[Serial_Apologist]

excellent programme S_A IMVVHO …. Thanks for flagging up

I'm glad you watched the programme and hope others have or will. Chris van Tulleken has written a companion article in next week's Radio Times, which re-states most of the arguments presented in the documentary. One however which is missed - and it is very important - is the point made about texture in so much hyper-processed food. Most of these products require minimal mastication, important in slowing down food intake and appetite fulfilment, and thus encouraging over-eating and all the consequences..

[smittims]

Next Saturday Morning on Sky Arts, Simon Rattle and the LSO do Bruckner 7 and a Sibelius tone poem (not yet named). I don't know if this has been on before. It says 'New' but they've said that before . I think the people who write these blurbs don't know much about music. 'Barbara Hannigan sings a host of stunning arias'. She sang one song, it wasn't an aria, and it wasn't stunning.

[LMcD]

Next Saturday Morning on Sky Arts, Simon Rattle and the LSO do Bruckner 7 and a Sibelius tone poem (not yet named). I don't know if this has been on before. It says 'New' but they've said that before . I think the people who write these blurbs don't know much about music. 'Barbara Hannigan sings a host of stunning arias'. She sang one song, it wasn't an aria, and it wasn't stunning.

This might be the 2022 concert in which the Bruckner was preceded by The Oceanides and Tapiola.
There's also an LSO concert from the Barbican on Sky Arts at 5.00 p.m. on the 1st of December.

[LHC]

This might be the 2022 concert in which the Bruckner was preceded by The Oceanides and Tapiola.
There's also an LSO concert from the Barbican on Sky Arts at 5.00 p.m. on the 1st of December.

I believe the programme on 1 December is a recording of the Classical Pride concert from earlier this year. From the Barbican's blurb to promote this concert:

"The culmination of 2024’s Classical Pride, the London Symphony Orchestra and conductor Oliver Zeffman celebrate LGBTQ+ classical music in this diverse programme presented by Nick Grimshaw.

Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man precedes a world premiere by US composer Jake Heggie and librettist Taylor Mac featuring soprano Pumeza Matshikiza. Pavel Kolesnikov performs Saint-Saëns’ virtuosic and charming Piano Concerto No 2 and an encore of Tchaikovsky’s Valse Sentimentale. This foreshadows Cassandra Miller’s Round, which takes Tchaikovksy’s theme as a starting point.

Szymanowski’s Symphony No 3, Song of the Night, with tenor soloist Russell Thomas and our LGBTQ+ Community Choir concludes the programme, a nocturnal vision of profound peace within the universe mingled with passion."

[LMcD]

I believe the programme on 1 December is a recording of the Classical Pride concert from earlier this year. From the Barbican's blurb to promote this concert:

[johncorrigan]

I notice that BBC4 is rerunning 'The Box of Delights' starting this evening. I recall having a vhs of it and enjoying the series very much. Wonder how it will stand the test of time?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p00xgm9t/the-box-of-delights-1-when-the-wolves-were-running

[Serial_Apologist]

I notice that BBC4 is rerunning 'The Box of Delights' starting this evening. I recall having a vhs of it and enjoying the series very much. Wonder how it will stand the test of time?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod...s-were-running

Thanks John - I hadn't yet got[ten] around to checking the coming week's schedules.

[LMcD]

Thanks John - I hadn't yet got[ten] around to checking the coming week's schedules.

Full series available if you don't want to wait for the remaining episodes.

[LMcD]

[QUOTE=Pulcinella;n1322952]Anyone watching Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light? /QUOTE]

5 weeks of sustained excellence so far, and I'm confident standards won't slip as Cromwell finally comes well and truly unstuck.

[kernelbogey]

[QUOTE=LMcD;n1325226]

Anyone watching Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light? /QUOTE]

5 weeks of sustained excellence so far, and I'm confident standards won't slip as Cromwell finally comes well and truly unstuck.

Yes - very excellent. A gorgeous spectacle, too, as the Beeb does so well.

[smittims]

Any fans of Talking to A Stranger ? 1970s BBC Serial with Maurice Denham and a young Judi Dench; it's being shown on BBC4. I didn't know of it; it must date from my ten years without television.

I remember that when I started to watch TV again it was disconcerting to find that I was supposed to know who Michael Parkinasin , Les Dawson and Julia McKenzie were. Maybe that's one reason I've never cared for them.

[johncorrigan]

[QUOTE=kernelbogey;n1325234]

Yes - very excellent. A gorgeous spectacle, too, as the Beeb does so well.

Gripping. Terrific acting throughout. Rylance is magnificent, but Lewis continues to give a tour de force as Henry..
One day I must read the books.

[vinteuil]

Any fans of Talking to A Stranger ? 1970s BBC Serial with Maurice Denham and a young Judi Dench; it's being shown on BBC4. I didn't know of it; it must date from my ten years without television

... actually October 1966. I remember I found it compelling when I saw it at the age of fourteen.

We've recorded it, and it will be interesting how I feel about it 58 years later...

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[kernelbogey]

[QUOTE=johncorrigan;n1325244]

Gripping. Terrific acting throughout. Ryland is magnificent, but Lewis continues to give a tour de force as Henry..
One day I must read the books.

On the whole I agree. I sometimes think Rylands has been directed to be too impassive most of the time. I understand the thinking behind that but the extremes between that impassive face with the darting gaze on the one hand and when he does show he's a bit rattled seem too broad to me.