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Originally posted by eighthobstruction View Post....Yes this play was on bbc4 last night https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod...-today....sent me to bed with a chuckle....Pacta sunt servanda !!!
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Originally posted by Flay View PostThanks SA, that brought back memories. Here's the link: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000ng9w
I wish they would re-run them. I'd love to watch Shakespeare or Bust again, among others.
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Originally posted by eighthobstruction View Post....Yes this play was on bbc4 last night https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod...-today....sent me to bed with a chuckle....
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Originally posted by Flay View PostThanks SA, that brought back memories. Here's the link: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000ng9w
I wish they would re-run them. I'd love to watch Shakespeare or Bust again, among others.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 Keraulophone View PostThat really warmed my heart. An artist who made one pause, even if ‘I’m Going in a Field’ isn’t quite the equal of Schubert.
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Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View PostDrama out of a Crisis@ a Celebration of Play for Today
Just now, on BBC4.
Only spotted it was on earlier this evening. Wouldn't have missed it for the world.
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Originally posted by gurnemanz View PostJust caught up with it . Extremely interesting but I realised how much good stuff I missed at the time. From 1967 to 1972 I was a student and, as I remember, TV was mainly limited to communal viewing of Match of the Day, Top of the Pops and Monty Python. I then went to work in Germany from 72 to 76 and missed another whole chunk of them.
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Have just finished watching Maggie Hambling: Making Love with the Paint, BBC2 and would thoroughly recommend it. No knowledge of the artist is necessary and it is just a straightforward ungimmicky documentary about a remarkable woman. She has a wicked sense of humour and there were a couple of real laugh out loud moments.
As it happens I am an admirer of her work and have been lucky enough to see it in exhibitions, and treated myself to her book "The Sea" a couple of years ago following one such, so to see something of her work environment and learn more about the background to her paintings was a pleasure.
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I caught 'Play For Today' last night on BBC4. 'Just a Boy's Game' from 1979 had Frankie Miller playing Jake McQuillen. It brought back strong memories as I was a student on placement in Larkfield, the housing scheme in Greenock where much of the play was filmed and set. I remember during the filming that I had to help coordinate a meeting between the Tenants' Association and the Producer and Director as complaints started to come through from local people about the image that was being projected of the estate during filming. It was quite heated. I recalled that there was surprise expressed by the director when people locally said that Larkfield was an area where it was impossible to rent a TV because of its reputation, and that the filming was not helping...remember when we rented TVs? The other abiding memory was the rain. I was from Paisley and used to a good dose of rain, but up the hill in Greenock was different level entirely. It rained ever day of that placement, and when it wasn't raining you could see the rain coming in from across the Firth. I got soaked waiting for a lot of busses through that 3 months. It was interesting to see the Play again after all these years...some weel kent faces from the Scottish drama scene of the time and very amusing in places too.
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Originally posted by oddoneout View PostHave just finished watching Maggie Hambling: Making Love with the Paint, BBC2 and would thoroughly recommend it. No knowledge of the artist is necessary and it is just a straightforward ungimmicky documentary about a remarkable woman. She has a wicked sense of humour and there were a couple of real laugh out loud moments.
As it happens I am an admirer of her work and have been lucky enough to see it in exhibitions, and treated myself to her book "The Sea" a couple of years ago following one such, so to see something of her work environment and learn more about the background to her paintings was a pleasure.
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A somewhat half-hearted recommendation for In Search of Dracula with Mark Gatiss on BBC FOUR this evening. An interesting historical survey of film and television versions but where was Paul Morrissey's Blood for Dracula? O.k, it departs wildly from Bram Stoker's original but so do many others cited. Anyway, to make up for the omission:
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
There are hoops to jump through to access it but Udo Kier and Joe Dallesandro are superb.
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