If it's not too late to cancel any ready-made plans BBC 4 are repeating Dan Cruickshank's exploration of the castles of Ludwig Ii of Bavaria, interesting for the Wagner connections, if I remember correctly. BBC 4 8.00pm
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Originally posted by Roger Webb View PostIf it's not too late to cancel any ready-made plans BBC 4 are repeating Dan Cruickshank's exploration of the castles of Ludwig Ii of Bavaria, interesting for the Wagner connections, if I remember correctly. BBC 4 8.00pm
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I'm not surprised to see that 'Miner's Strike - A Frontline Story', broadcast on BBC2 last night, has been receiving 5-star reviews. It was as even-handed a treatment as could reasonably be expected given the strength of feeling (to put it mildly) felt at the time by those involved and clearly still felt by many of them.. This excellent programme, while not taking sides, made it clear why the strike was never going to allow Mr Scargill to achieve his aims and why no other outcome was ever likely.
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Originally posted by LMcD View PostI'm not surprised to see that 'Miner's Strike - A Frontline Story', broadcast on BBC2 last night, has been receiving 5-star reviews. It was as even-handed a treatment as could reasonably be expected given the strength of feeling (to put it mildly) felt at the time by those involved and clearly still felt by many of them.. This excellent programme, while not taking sides, made it clear why the strike was never going to allow Mr Scargill to achieve his aims and why no other outcome was ever likely.
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And as if to balance it (if indeed it does) we have 'Thatcher, a very British revolution'. It's interesting to see such programmes being screened in advance of (but not so close to it as to attract criticism) a General election. I suppose the BBC have an elaborate code as to what can and cannot be shown. I don't know if this programme comes not to praise Thatcher but to bury her, as I shan't be watching for more than one reason.
I remember many occasions over the last thirty years when any BBC documentary mentioned 1979 , even slightly, and we just had to be shown the famous footage of her arrival at no. 10 and reciting part of the prayer of S. Francis of Assisi. I imagine there must be many arguments within the BBc about such things.
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Originally posted by smittims View PostAnd as if to balance it (if indeed it does) we have 'Thatcher, a very British revolution'. It's interesting to see such programmes being screened in advance of (but not so close to it as to attract criticism) a General election. I suppose the BBC have an elaborate code as to what can and cannot be shown. I don't know if this programme comes not to praise Thatcher but to bury her, as I shan't be watching for more than one reason.
I remember many occasions over the last thirty years when any BBC documentary mentioned 1979 , even slightly, and we just had to be shown the famous footage of her arrival at no. 10 and reciting part of the prayer of S. Francis of Assisi. I imagine there must be many arguments within the BBc about such things.
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Originally posted by LMcD View Post
Presumably Channel 4 also had such an ulterior motive, or followed some such code, when they broadcast their own series a week or so ago marking the 40th anniversary of the strike. If the BBC programme set out to prove anything, it was that the strike was bound to fail because the NUM mistakenly thought that they were taking on the NCB, only to realize that that were in fact taking on a government which had learnt the lessons of previous miners' strikes, had no intention of being defeated again, and was consequently well prepared - even for a national strike which might have prolonged the strike without, I suspect, changing the final outcome.
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... the very wonderful Talking Pictures TV is showing all the MR James adaptations made in the 1970s.
Looking at the credits for last night's A Warning for the Curious [1972] I was tickled by the choices made for the music - I wonder if a BBC producer today would be so brave :- Atmospheres - Symphony Orchestra of the Southwest German Radio, Baden Baden; Conductor: Ernest Bour (György Ligeti) [Heliodor – 2549 003]
- Density 21.5 - Flute: Severino Gazzelloni (Edgard Varèse) [Heliodor – 2549 002]
- Concerto for Cello and Orchestra - Hessian Radio Symphony Orchestra; Cello: Siegfried Palm; Conductor: Michael Gielen (György Ligeti) [Heliodor – 2549 004]
- Streichquartett No. 2 (i): Allegro Nervoso and (iv): Presto Furioso, Brutale, Tumultoso - LaSalle-Quartett; Cello: Jack Kirstein (György Ligeti) [Deutsche Grammophon, Avantgarde 2561 040]
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Originally posted by vinteuil View Post... the very wonderful Talking Pictures TV is showing all the MR James adaptations made in the 1970s.
Looking at the credits for last night's A Warning for the Curious [1972] I was tickled by the choices made for the music - I wonder if a BBC producer today would be so brave :- Atmospheres - Symphony Orchestra of the Southwest German Radio, Baden Baden; Conductor: Ernest Bour (György Ligeti) [Heliodor – 2549 003]
- Density 21.5 - Flute: Severino Gazzelloni (Edgard Varèse) [Heliodor – 2549 002]
- Concerto for Cello and Orchestra - Hessian Radio Symphony Orchestra; Cello: Siegfried Palm; Conductor: Michael Gielen (György Ligeti) [Heliodor – 2549 004]
- Streichquartett No. 2 (i): Allegro Nervoso and (iv): Presto Furioso, Brutale, Tumultoso - LaSalle-Quartett; Cello: Jack Kirstein (György Ligeti) [Deutsche Grammophon, Avantgarde 2561 040]
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Originally posted by eighthobstruction View Post....some great stuff from the 80-90's....on BBC iplayer Archive section - All Passion Spent (Vita Sackville -West).....Passage to India....Momento Mori (Muriel Spark) and a few others....really enjoyed a trip down memory lane....(originally Screen 2 offerings)"...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 eighthobstruction View Post....some great stuff from the 80-90's....on BBC iplayer Archive section - All Passion Spent (Vita Sackville -West).....Passage to India....Momento Mori (Muriel Spark) and a few others....really enjoyed a trip down memory lane....(originally Screen 2 offerings)
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Originally posted by LMcD View PostNext up is Anna Karenina from 1961 with Claire Bloom."...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 Nick Armstrong View Post
Indeed - stunning… and a just-pre-007 Sean Connery as Vronsky (Dr No began shooting in January 1962…)
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I recorded this but haven't seen it yet. In my experience the fault of some versions has been to omit the relationship between Levin and Kitty, which Tolstoy clearly intended as a counterbalance to the Anna/Vronsky disaster. In one version they were airbrushed out altogether. I still treasure the old film with Ralph Richardson, with music by Constant Lambert.
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