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I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
I am not a number, I am a free man.
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Originally posted by Constantbee View PostWell, I was thinking of you as I was watching, TS. Lots of glam shots of the city making it look an attractive place to visit, and incidentally another gripping real life crime drama. Pathos in the tragedy is invoked by the introduction from the very first episode of Dawn Sturgess, the unwitting bystander who fell victim to the poison, and her partner Charlie Rowley. If the Russians had wanted to score a moral victory from the case they couldn't have chosen better victims if they had tried, as these must have been some of the poorest, and therefore most vulnerable, people in the vicinity at the time, IMHO.
Given the psychology impact of the poisoning on Salisbury I'm wondering how the city is coping with Coronavirus. It's not that long ago, is it? Barely two years?
I think Salisbury was getting back on its feet pretty well, or as well as a city with few major employers and collapsing tourist numbers can. Free/ cheap parking helped quite a bit, as it always seems to. Perhaps Salisbury is better primed to deal with the current crisis than other cities, given its recent past. Time will tell.I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
I am not a number, I am a free man.
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Originally posted by ardcarp View PostHas anyone watched Staged on BBC1 ? Michael Sheen and David Tennant (inter alia) attempt some acting during lockdown. Very droll.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08dnl67
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Originally posted by Rolmill View PostYes, enjoying it very much - a nice mix of wryly amusing and laugh-out-loud funny. Sheen is always very watchable, IMV.bong ching
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Originally posted by eighthobstruction View Post....Adrian Lester really gave a good 10 minutes, and Samuel ? Jackson - great....I have always not liked Tennant much, but Sheen is awesome....
Agreed about Tennant, though his Hamlet was very very good... Also his voiceover for W1A (although that has meant I can’t now take any of his serious voiceover work seriously)"...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 PostI need to see Staged, clearly.
Agreed about Tennant, though his Hamlet was very very good... Also his voiceover for W1A (although that has meant I can’t now take any of his serious voiceover work seriously)bong ching
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Originally posted by eighthobstruction View Post........just watched all 5 series of OUTNUMBERED....brilliant....
Just saw episode 1 of Staged. Absolutely brilliant
(And yes, Outnumbered was great!)"...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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The hidden wilds of the motorway https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000kjm9
This was broadcast twice in not very many days which was fortunate as I caught the last third by accident first time round and saw the rest on Sunday. A quiet, thoughtful and thought provoking programme, with occasional "good heavens" moments, of which the star was possibly watching a clump of dessicated moss spring instantly to life when water was dropped on it - to do with the ability of moss to colonise inhospitable sites such as concrete bridges and provide a stepping stone for the process of general vegetative colonisation. The flock of sheep and their part in the safety management of Wraysbury reservoir, and the stats about chalk streams were other 'well I never' moments. Regardless of one's stance on the existence of motorways there is a great deal in this programme which is worth watching just for the wildlife general knowledge aspect.
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Originally posted by oddoneout View PostThe hidden wilds of the motorway https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000kjm9
This was broadcast twice in not very many days which was fortunate as I caught the last third by accident first time round and saw the rest on Sunday. A quiet, thoughtful and thought provoking programme, with occasional "good heavens" moments, of which the star was possibly watching a clump of dessicated moss spring instantly to life when water was dropped on it - to do with the ability of moss to colonise inhospitable sites such as concrete bridges and provide a stepping stone for the process of general vegetative colonisation. The flock of sheep and their part in the safety management of Wraysbury reservoir, and the stats about chalk streams were other 'well I never' moments. Regardless of one's stance on the existence of motorways there is a great deal in this programme which is worth watching just for the wildlife general knowledge aspect.
I had no idea about the gunpowder works up near the Lee River; nor that J.G. Ballard lived in a suburban semi...."...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 PostAgreed. Like you, I happened upon the latter part “live” on the earlier broadcast, but then I watched from the start on iPlayer. Lots of fascinating stuff about matters both man-made and natural.
I had no idea about the gunpowder works up near the Lee River; nor that J.G. Ballard lived in a suburban semi....
One welcome reminder in the programme is that so-called "brown sites", while easily seen as worthless, an eyesore, concrete them over etc, are in fact havens of ecodiversity, more often than not. The far corner of our garden is one such!
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