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Originally posted by DracoM View PostBBC 'Spooks' - worth seeing.
I made a couple of 12 hour timelapse audio recordings there a few years ago which revealed all sorts of things
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Originally posted by cloughie View PostI look down the schedules and think how little there is to recommend. Am I alone with this thought?
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Originally posted by cloughie View PostI look down the schedules and think how little there is to recommend. Am I alone with this thought?
Mrs Edge is a telly addict whereas I think I could live without TV altogether.
I would miss footy and Talking Pictures thoug.“Music is the best means we have of digesting time." — Igor Stravinsky
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For lovers of the Cumbrian landscape and/or those in need of something other than 'normal' TV, a slow TV film of a sheep gather off Scafell Pike. The sheep in the picture on the schedule page did manage to break the contemplative mood at one point by smacking the camera into a rock it was walking under. Occasional comments from the shepherd, and short readings of specially written poetry (which I found were an excellent addition, and would like to read as they conjured up scenes so aptly and concisely) were well judged additions and didn't intrude.
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Originally posted by MrGongGong View Post
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Originally posted by johncorrigan View PostLove them, MrGG. Talking of fishing, I caught this programme last night late called 'Jago: A Life Underwater' on BBC 4, initially shown a couple of years back. It's a documentary about the life of this 80 year-old man from the Togian Islands in Indonesia, who dives on a single breath to great depths - a beautiful piece of TV.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08rp0ld
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Delighted to find BBC4 are rebroadcasting the legendary series of programmes with Bob Ross painting nature scenes etc.
Whatever one thinks of the final works ... the process and Ross’s home-spun charm I always used to find mesmerising and relaxing..."...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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Originally posted by Caliban View PostDelighted to find BBC4 are rebroadcasting the legendary series of programmes with Bob Ross painting nature scenes etc.
Whatever one thinks of the final works ... the process and Ross’s home-spun charm I always used to find mesmerising and relaxing...
I've rambled, but I did enjoy the programme. Maybe I won't look for another though.
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Last edited by DracoM; 24-04-20, 11:45.
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Originally posted by ardcarp View PostWell thanks for that! I didn't know whether to boggle at what he was doing with his 2" brushes and a scraper or to gag at his 'happy little' presentation! I know for certain that if I tried...the painting I mean...it would be horrific, whereas he obviously has a big talent. I know that many art teachers say anyone can do it. I don't think so, any more than a person born with little innate musical feeling can ever learn to play or sing at more than a basic level. (Discuss.) We are often quite amused as a family that none of us, bar one g-kid, has the slightest aptitude for drawing or painting. People find it strange that some musicians, with all their sensitivity and artistry, can be so lacking in the ability to put anything apart from notes on paper. Having said that, as a little boy, my own piano teacher was a keen amateur artist, and won some sort of local art competition with an oil portrait of my big sister. The big sis absolutely hated it and refused to take possession of it when we had to empty our old parents' house. So it/she sits glowering in our attic while she resides (in person) at a safe distance in Norway! I haven't the heart to chuck it out, so maybe I'll remove it from the frame, roll it up and get on a plane one day......
I've rambled, but I did enjoy the programme. Maybe I won't look for another though.
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Originally posted by oddoneout View PostAnother series about features of these islands in the unassuming style which is so welcome at the moment
The first one last week was about Norfolk.
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