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  • Bryn
    Banned
    • Mar 2007
    • 24688

    Originally posted by kernelbogey View Post
    Rock Island Line
    The story of the Lonnie Donegan 1956 skiffle hit: the song's genesis in Southern US prisons, recording in prison by the Lomaxes, then taken over by
    Lead Belly. The birth of skiffle via Lonnie in the Ken Collyer Band and Chris Barber Jazz Band and the influence of skiffle on the emergence in the sixties of British Rock. A fascinating story fronted by Billy Bragg on BBC 4 (2018).
    So not currently available on the iPlayer, and neither is the Radio 4 programme from 2010 with the same title. However, "The Song That Made Britain Rock" which deals with the subject is:

    How one song - Rock Island Line - launched the skiffle craze and changed music forever.


    Strangely it is not listed under the A-Z button.
    Last edited by Bryn; 21-02-20, 22:57.

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    • LezLee
      Full Member
      • Apr 2019
      • 634

      Originally posted by Bryn View Post
      So not currently available on the iPlayer, and neither is the Radio 4 programme from 2010 with the same title. However, "Britain Rock" which deals with the subject is:

      https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000433l
      It's repeated on BBC4 at 3.00am tomorrow morning.

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      • kernelbogey
        Full Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 5748

        Originally posted by Bryn View Post
        So not currently available on the iPlayer, and neither is the Radio 4 programme from 2010 with the same title. However, "Britain Rock" which deals with the subject is:

        https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000433l
        Same programme - I omitted the subtitle, now added. Thanks for the URL Bryn.

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        • Bryn
          Banned
          • Mar 2007
          • 24688

          Originally posted by kernelbogey View Post
          Same programme - I omitted the subtitle, now added. Thanks for the URL Bryn.
          I wonder if it was basically the same as the earlier Radio 4 programme but with pictures.

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          • kernelbogey
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 5748

            Originally posted by Bryn View Post
            I wonder if it was basically the same as the earlier Radio 4 programme but with pictures.
            Tbh, I thought it a rather rough-and-ready bit of television - so that could be the reason!

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            • johncorrigan
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 10363

              Originally posted by kernelbogey View Post
              Tbh, I thought it a rather rough-and-ready bit of television - so that could be the reason!
              Agreed, kb, and not sure Billy Bragg was the right guy for it. But I did quite enjoy it in bits, especially 'Freight Train', a favourite song when I was growing up. This video sounds like it was recorded by Joe Meek.
              Hit song from 1957 recorded in black and white with authentic sound. From "Tommy Steele Story" film, but discovered on an old VHS tape. UPDATE - See later ...

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              • LMcD
                Full Member
                • Sep 2017
                • 8472

                Episode 1 of the new series of 'Last Tango In Halifax' aired on BBC1 last night. Sally Wainwright's merciless dissection of family life (and strife) flawlessly delivered by Anne Reid, Derek Jacobi and colleagues. Not a single unnecessary word or gesture. Funny it may be, but cosy it definitely isn't.

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                • cloughie
                  Full Member
                  • Dec 2011
                  • 22126

                  Originally posted by LMcD View Post
                  Episode 1 of the new series of 'Last Tango In Halifax' aired on BBC1 last night. Sally Wainwright's merciless dissection of family life (and strife) flawlessly delivered by Anne Reid, Derek Jacobi and colleagues. Not a single unnecessary word or gesture. Funny it may be, but cosy it definitely isn't.
                  A perfection of strife to set up the series! ...a great cast!

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                  • Stanfordian
                    Full Member
                    • Dec 2010
                    • 9312

                    Originally posted by cloughie View Post
                    A perfection of strife to set up the series! ...a great cast!
                    Derek Jacobi working on the tills in a supermarket! Great stuff!

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                    • Cockney Sparrow
                      Full Member
                      • Jan 2014
                      • 2284

                      Using the family (daughter's) Netflix subscription, we've just finished making our way through "The Crown". So last week we saw Jacobi play the Duke of Windsor in his final days. I presume Jacobi can manage a role as a checkout operative, so I should be able to adjust my vision. (Also we finished the Christine Keeler series and saw the Profumo character scrubbing floors at Toynbee Hall). What with Johnson wielding a mop ...etc...etc.... they're all acting.....

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                      • johncorrigan
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 10363

                        Just watched an old Andrew Graham Dixon three-parter on the 'Art of Germany', from about ten years ago. Hadn't seen it before. I found it really fascinating throughout. Part three which took us from Dix and Grosz through the Bauhaus and the Third Reich to Joseph Beuys and the reunited Germany was particularly well done. Especially fascinated by the photographs of August Sander, about whom I was unaware. But I found the series terrific throughout.
                        Andrew Graham-Dixon explores German art and examines the country's cultural legacy

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                        • gurnemanz
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                          • Nov 2010
                          • 7388

                          Originally posted by johncorrigan View Post
                          Just watched an old Andrew Graham Dixon three-parter on the 'Art of Germany', from about ten years ago. Hadn't seen it before. I found it really fascinating throughout. Part three which took us from Dix and Grosz through the Bauhaus and the Third Reich to Joseph Beuys and the reunited Germany was particularly well done. Especially fascinated by the photographs of August Sander, about whom I was unaware. But I found the series terrific throughout.
                          https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00wcqms
                          I saw it was on but did not watch again. I might now do so. I think it was through seeing this programme the first time round that we became aware of August Sander. We made the trip to Liverpool Tate to see what turned out to be an excellent exhibition combining his photos with the work of Otto Dix, including his horrifyingly vivid First World War prints. There's a good 5 min video on that site. My wife is German and I bought her a book of Sander photos for her upcoming birthday. The photos give a fascinating pictorial insight into the Germany her parents grew up in between the Wars. We also went to a Sander show a couple of years ago at Hauser and Wirth in London.

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                          • johncorrigan
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 10363

                            Originally posted by gurnemanz View Post
                            I saw it was on but did not watch again. I might now do so. I think it was through seeing this programme the first time round that we became aware of August Sander. We made the trip to Liverpool Tate to see what turned out to be an excellent exhibition combining his photos with the work of Otto Dix, including his horrifyingly vivid First World War prints. There's a good 5 min video on that site. My wife is German and I bought her a book of Sander photos for her upcoming birthday. The photos give a fascinating pictorial insight into the Germany her parents grew up in between the Wars. We also went to a Sander show a couple of years ago at Hauser and Wirth in London.
                            Thanks for that, gurney. As I watched, I thought that I would look for a book of Sander's photos for my Pal's birthday. I'll look for the one you mention. I assume it's available in English. That looked like a great exhibition in Liverpool.

                            I loved the limewood sculptures of Tilman Riemenschneider in the first programme of the series - as Andrew says, someone making art with the material that was available. So many beautiful things to be seen in the series.

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                            • gurnemanz
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 7388

                              Originally posted by johncorrigan View Post
                              Thanks for that, gurney. As I watched, I thought that I would look for a book of Sander's photos for my Pal's birthday. I'll look for the one you mention. I assume it's available in English. That looked like a great exhibition in Liverpool.

                              I loved the limewood sculptures of Tilman Riemenschneider in the first programme of the series - as Andrew says, someone making art with the material that was available. So many beautiful things to be seen in the series.
                              I was prompted to go back and watch the first programme again today and will also watch the rest. I spent a year in Bavaria when I was a student, not far from Rothenburg which featured in the film. I was able to get to see quite a lot Riemenschneider's wood carvings and also similar work in stone by Adam Kraft, eg the amazing Sacrament House in the Lorenzkirche in Nürnberg. The school I was working at as English assistant in nearby Schwabach was actually named after Adam Kraft.

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                              • kernelbogey
                                Full Member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 5748

                                I've just discovered the The Goes Wrong Show on BBC, now on iPlayer: six half hour episodes. In each playlet, multiple errors occur, from faulty or inadequate set design to missed cues, non-functioning props and fluffed lines. Television floor managers make inappropriate entries and technical staff are seen fixing problems when they should be out of sight. The actors play both the part in the play they are performing and that of the hapless participant - a beautifully handled duality. The physical disasters are the stuff of farce, but their ubiquity and frequency is managed with extraordinary facility. I can't remember laughing so continuously or so hard at a half hour programme in a very long time. Highly recommended.

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