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....Yes this play was on bbc4 last night https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod...-today....sent me to bed with a chuckle....bong ching -
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And thanks in return, Flay. I was a bit short of time for digging out the programme link.Originally posted by Flay View PostComment
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And thanks for the link, 8th. I was too droopy by the end of the previous programme to watch this. Flay's right: it seemed from what was said that a few of those Plays for Today survived the BBC's great tape wipe, and given that little changes, some are even more germane to today than they were at the time, sadly.Originally posted by eighthobstruction View PostComment
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Abigail's Party is being shown tomorrow 9pm BBC4Pacta sunt servanda !!!Comment
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I think quite a lot of them got wiped. Loved watching them as a a teenager.Originally posted by Flay View PostI 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.Comment
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That 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.Originally posted by LezLee View PostComment
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Very enjoyable, even if KT was a wee bit irritating for me. I noticed four people in the programme shed a wee tear...Ivor clearly made quite an impact on those close to him, for good or bad. Found out quite a lot about him which I had no idea about. I'd watch it again.Originally posted by Keraulophone View PostComment
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Just 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.Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View PostComment
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Not having had a TV or even access to one from between 1964, when I left home to make my way in the big wide world, and 1981 when I had my first, hired telly, meant I missed out on all of them. I enjoyed seeing "Abigail's Party" just now, for the very first time, though I think Mike Leigh's later plays were much much better.Originally posted by gurnemanz View PostComment
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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.Comment
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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.Comment
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We also enjoyed this. I well remember her on George Melly's TV art quiz. Much was new to us. Despite being avid gallery/exhibition-goers we could not recall seeing so much of her work on displayOriginally posted by oddoneout View PostComment
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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:
There are hoops to jump through to access it but Udo Kier and Joe Dallesandro are superb.Comment
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You want Dracula?
Ahem...try the 'Trump Show' on BBC2. Blimey!Comment
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