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  • johncorrigan
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 10337

    Last night BBC Scotland showed the excellent 'From Scotland with Love' from 2014, which explores 'love, loss, resistance, migration, work and play' made entirely from clips from the Scottish Film Archive. King Creosote composed a soundtrack, which fits in nicely. Such wonderful images weaved together beautifully. Well worth having a look if you haven't seen it. Mrs C and I have watched it three or four times over the years and will watch it again some other time, I have no doubt.
    Film exploring Scotland's past and made entirely of Scottish film archive.

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    • LezLee
      Full Member
      • Apr 2019
      • 634

      Originally posted by johncorrigan View Post
      Last night BBC Scotland showed the excellent 'From Scotland with Love' from 2014, which explores 'love, loss, resistance, migration, work and play' made entirely from clips from the Scottish Film Archive. King Creosote composed a soundtrack, which fits in nicely. Such wonderful images weaved together beautifully. Well worth having a look if you haven't seen it. Mrs C and I have watched it three or four times over the years and will watch it again some other time, I have no doubt.
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod...land-with-love
      I saw it at the Edinburgh Festival where King Creosote accompanied it live. Excellent! Highly recommended, you don’t need to be Scottish.

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      • johncorrigan
        Full Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 10337

        Originally posted by LezLee View Post
        I saw it at the Edinburgh Festival where King Creosote accompanied it live. Excellent! Highly recommended, you don’t need to be Scottish.
        I saw this on 'Talking Pictures' the other week, Lez, and last night recognised some of the images in 'Scotland on Film' from it. This was made in 1948. Great wee half hour film weaving together stories against the Edinburgh backdrop.
        A dramatised portrait of Edinburgh and its inhabitants, written by John Summerfield, directed by John Eldridge and photographed by Martin Curtis.

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        • LezLee
          Full Member
          • Apr 2019
          • 634

          Originally posted by johncorrigan View Post
          I saw this on 'Talking Pictures' the other week, Lez, and last night recognised some of the images in 'Scotland on Film' from it. This was made in 1948. Great wee half hour film weaving together stories against the Edinburgh backdrop.
          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytLCihkMX7U
          Thanks John. I enjoyed that. Lots of English accents though!

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          • eighthobstruction
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 6426

            Originally posted by johncorrigan View Post
            I saw this on 'Talking Pictures' the other week, Lez, and last night recognised some of the images in 'Scotland on Film' from it. This was made in 1948. Great wee half hour film weaving together stories against the Edinburgh backdrop.
            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytLCihkMX7U
            ....Really very very fabulous....great music and lyrics (worth seeing subtitles)....Marvellously put together and kept the interest going.....excellent....
            bong ching

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            • alywin
              Full Member
              • Apr 2011
              • 374

              Well, I don't know about "recommended", but I've been enjoying The Beauty of Books on BBC4 at 7.30 this week, on mediaeval illuminated manuscripts. The disconcerting thing, though, is wondering what on earth possessed the producers to make the musical selection they have: I can't see any relation between the subject-matter and the Scherzo, I think it was, from Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night Dream, for example.

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              • oddoneout
                Full Member
                • Nov 2015
                • 9135

                Originally posted by alywin View Post
                Well, I don't know about "recommended", but I've been enjoying The Beauty of Books on BBC4 at 7.30 this week, on mediaeval illuminated manuscripts. The disconcerting thing, though, is wondering what on earth possessed the producers to make the musical selection they have: I can't see any relation between the subject-matter and the Scherzo, I think it was, from Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night Dream, for example.
                Yes I found that odd - it's not even as if the 'feel' of the music matched the subject matter.

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                • Serial_Apologist
                  Full Member
                  • Dec 2010
                  • 37560

                  Originally posted by oddoneout View Post
                  Yes I found that odd - it's not even as if the 'feel' of the music matched the subject matter.
                  And to me it's the equivalent of people not knowing where to find Australia on the map.

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                  • eighthobstruction
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 6426

                    ....For those of a certain age, whe BBB OBs did Old Man of Hoy, Matterhorn, Jungfrau climbs in misty live reality....This is a marvellous programme about Hamish McInnes the cameraman on many of those climbs (carrying 40kg more and soloing to get above actual climbers){an enigma]....Now 87, and recently out off hosp after a spell of insanity.....Great Prog'....https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod...amish-macinnes
                    Last edited by eighthobstruction; 13-05-20, 12:44.
                    bong ching

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                    • kernelbogey
                      Full Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 5735

                      Originally posted by jayne lee wilson;791187
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                      Bingeing through Normal People [/I]on BBC3 last night, about halfway through (12 x 30' episodes via iplayer etc)...... I usually avoid domestic/realistic dramas, especially hetero love stories, even more especially teen/young adult school/college love stories, but..... this one is utterly wonderful - so subtly written, directed and above all acted by the two leads its a very involving and nuanced tale of their on-off intense affair, unusually insightful emotionally.......very highly [I]recommended!
                      Just begun to watch this, after hearing so much praise for it. Totally agree with Jayne's comments. (If there could be more like this from BBC3, that might compensate to some extent for the likely closure of BBC4.)

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                      • Pulcinella
                        Host
                        • Feb 2014
                        • 10872

                        Originally posted by Stunsworth View Post
                        Currently half way through Mystery Road on iPlayer. A police drama set in the Australian outback, it was recommended to me by a friend and I’m enjoying it a great deal.
                        Thanks for this recommendation.
                        It made a change from Vera or Montalbano.

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                        • johncorrigan
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 10337

                          Charlie Booker's 'Antiviral Swipe' on BBC2 this evening - highly entertaining and insightful from the Lockdown...a nice wee potted history of the madness...so far!

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                          • Serial_Apologist
                            Full Member
                            • Dec 2010
                            • 37560

                            Originally posted by johncorrigan View Post
                            Charlie Booker's 'Antiviral Swipe' on BBC2 this evening - highly entertaining and insightful from the Lockdown...a nice wee potted history of the madness...so far!
                            https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08d55hl
                            Very funny - but I have to admit the today's "humour" is getting a bit near the knuckle, isn't it? Or is this just a sign of ageing and approaching time to sign off? People say our parent's generation had to cope with rock 'n' roll and Doctor films getting an A certificate. But that's the sum total of the changes they had to adjust to... OK then, television... and colour television... and LPs replacing 78s... and motorways.

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                            • Nick Armstrong
                              Host
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 26516

                              Originally posted by Stunsworth View Post
                              For anyone who subscribes to Netflix...

                              The race is on here to complete Mad Men before the seven seasons are removed from Netflix on 9 June. Season 4 completed last night.

                              Consistently-engaging (indeed, addictive) drama set in the world of advertising executives on Madison Avenue - hence the title - in 1960s New York. The personal drama of the central character (played by the charismatic Jon Hamm) includes a historic secret that weaves its way throughout. Very good to see Jared Harris (son of the late Richard) join the regulars in season 3. And all against the expertly styled and beautifully shot backdrop of the 60s, with contemporary reality (the Kennedy assassination, the Beatles) bound up in the story. Great stuff.
                              "...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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                              • LMcD
                                Full Member
                                • Sep 2017
                                • 8396

                                'The Salisbury Poisonings' (BBC1 and iPlayer, 3 successive nights starting yesterday) Absolutely riveting from the start.

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