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Originally posted by kernelbogey View PostLaura Kuenssberg: State of Chaos (BBC2: 1/3) was a fascinating dissection of the immediate post 2016 Referendum period up to the proroguing of Parliament by Johnson. I don't think I learned much that was factuallly new, but hearing politicians and senior mandarins speak on the record about their thoughts at the time was revealng. I intend to watch the other two programmes.
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Very good documentary about the overthrow of the Allende government in Chile in 1973 with the help of Britain and America, and the subsequent Pinochet military-fascist dictatorship with Thatcher's tacit blessing, on PBS America last night:
Augusto Pinochet: the Coup, the Torture and the West.
Contributors pointed out Allende's naivety in trusting to Pinochet's loyalty to the democratic constitution - Allende had actually appointed him head of the army, something I had not known about - and the rehearsal role Milton Friedman's and other's monetarist ideologies had thereafter played out in modelling Thatcher-Reaganomics as subsequently practiced throughout and beyond the "free world" right up to the present. The accent played on the democratic illegitimacy of the coup per se, rather than arguing, as those of us on the far left had leading up to and beyond the tragedy, that Allende's belief in the sufficiency of top-down reform without mass mobilising society to implement the changes necessary for a juster more equal Chile and resist the putsch, was in part to blame for the 18 years of suffering and impoverishment that followed: lessons that remain to be learned worldwide, in my view.
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Originally posted by smittims View PostIt's a little disappointing that the TPTV Maigrets are reverting to series one. I suppose they get the rights to show only a few at a time… these french ones are by far the best Maigrets I've ever seen.
Looking ahead, we have exciting news for fans of the French language version of Maigret starring Bruno Cremer - we’ll be bringing you brand new episodes from Tuesday 17th October
"...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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My life, each morning when I dress, is four and twenty hours less. (J Richardson)
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Originally posted by Pianorak View PostLiving next door to Putin - Episodes 1 and 2 on IPlayer
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod...es-1-episode-1
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Yes, I'm looking forward to seeing that, having seen many of the shots in their original boradcast. I wonder how likely it is that BBC TV would broadcast Schoenberg's 'Herzgewachse' today, as they did fifty years ago.
I felt the same watching 'Andre Previn at the BBC' having remembered 'Andre Previn's Music Night' from the '70s. The BBC can't really pretend they taKe classical music seriously until they start doing this sort of thing regularly.
Good news about the Bruno Cremer Maigrets. Time to get my disc recorder in shape.
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I cannot recommend too highly the new series on Picasso on BBC2 Thursday nights at 9pm, focussing on his relationships with and towards women. The programmes can be accessed via the link at the bottom of the featured paintings below, most of which are taken from the first episode shown last Thursday:
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I'm afraid I've never had to confront the question of whether or not to 'cancel' Picasso, as I never accepted him. Maybe as a child of my time ('The Movement', Look back in Anger etc.) I've always regarded him as an overrated poseur, like DH Lawrence . I enjoyed Michael Ayrton's uproarious 'The Midas Consequence' which lampoons Picasso .
But 'his attitude to women' does raise a subject which I sense is too much an Elephant in the Room to be discussed openly these days: the concept of submissiveness in female-male relationships, which leads some women to adore masterful men who ill-treat them.
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I see that BBC4 tonight is doing the binge thing - no music programmes for ages then put on 4 back to back. Perhaps they assume that as the content is different for each then viewers won't be interested in all of them? I've seen the RVW/Holst one and think I may have seen Danielle de Niese's one as well (although currently I wouldn't be able to concentrate at that time anyway, due to fall out from a horrid virus - not Covid AFAIK) so that whittles things down.
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