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  • vinteuil
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 13211

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    ... series 3 of White Lotus


    As delicious as its predecessors



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    • Serial_Apologist
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      • Dec 2010
      • 38219

      Tonight's Panorama (BBC1 8pm) replaces the Can Trump End the War in Ukraine? billed in RT with one in which Southport families speak out in the wake of August's fascist-organised riots and disinformation, deliberate or otherwise, in both the social and mainstream media:

      Reporter Judith Moritz meets survivors of the Southport attack.


      I shall be postponing tonight's significant-looking Israel and the Palestinians: the Road to 7 October (1/3) at 9pm over on BBC2 for the iplayer in preference for the final of four programmes over on CH4, Go Back to Where You Came From, in which two groups equally divided from the off on matters of immigration and refugees are physically taken on dangerous routes ued by migrants seeking safety and futures in Britain and Europe, which has proved most revealing.

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      • johncorrigan
        Full Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 10515

        One of my pals recommended 'Gaucho Gaucho' to me which played on the 'Storyville' string last week on BBC4. It's beautiful black-and-white celebration of a way of life under threat from the modern world. The film follows men, women and children and their horses and cattle in amazing landscapes - beautiful wee film. (75 minutes).
        A Storyville documentary that follows the lives of Argentina’s gauchos (cowboys and cowgirls), as they try to preserve their traditions in a fast-changing world.

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        • LMcD
          Full Member
          • Sep 2017
          • 8934

          I was very impressed with Hugh Fraser (who later became Poirot's sidekick) in 'Cloud Howe', the second part of the 1980s Lewis Gibbon trilogy from BBC Scotland currently airing on BBC4. The supporting cast includes Celia Imrie.

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          • vinteuil
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 13211

            Originally posted by johncorrigan View Post
            One of my pals recommended 'Gaucho Gaucho' to me which played on the 'Storyville' string last week on BBC4. It's beautiful black-and-white celebration of a way of life under threat from the modern world. The film follows men, women and children and their horses and cattle in amazing landscapes - beautiful wee film. (75 minutes).
            https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod...-last-ranchers
            ... that was indeed a delight - many thanks for the nudge.

            They were so lucky to have found the glamorous feisty girl wanting to be a gaucha !



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            • smittims
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              • Aug 2022
              • 4772

              Talking Pictures TV is repeating Granada TV's ear;y 1970s saga A Family At War, which I sometimes think is the best TV drama I've ever seen . Not only is it well-acted and well-filmed (as many are even today) but also (Unlike them) it has a superb script.

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              • Roger Webb
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                • Feb 2024
                • 1093

                Originally posted by smittims View Post
                Talking Pictures TV is repeating Granada TV's ear;y 1970s saga A Family At War, which I sometimes think is the best TV drama I've ever seen . Not only is it well-acted and well-filmed (as many are even today) but also (Unlike them) it has a superb script..............
                .......................and if I remember correctly superb music - VW 6th...end of the first movt.

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                • Nick Armstrong
                  Host
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 26630

                  Originally posted by Roger Webb View Post

                  .......................and if I remember correctly superb music - VW 6th...end of the first movt.
                  You do remember correctly!
                  "...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
                    • 8934

                    Originally posted by Nick Armstrong View Post

                    You do remember correctly!
                    It was my introduction to what has long been one of my favourite symphonies.

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                    • Forget It (U2079353)
                      Full Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 140

                      The new programme on BBC Two will be very different from 42 years ago when the eighth and final series of The Master Game was never shown due to industrial action

                      Curious to see how this compares to the Master Game

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                      • johncorrigan
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 10515

                        I thoroughly enjoyed 'Towards Zero', the latest Agatha Christie adaptation on the Beeb. Great to see Angelica Huston and Clarke Peters in there. I thought that the guy who played Inspector Leach, Matthew Rhys, was particularly good, but it was a fine series. Call me old-fashioned but I do enjoy an Agatha Christie, partly, I think, because I know there's going to be some kind of resolution and I don't have to turn up for another season.

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                        • Ein Heldenleben
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                          • Apr 2014
                          • 7284

                          I can’t recommend the Arena on the ballet dancer Stephen McCrea’s long road to recovery and peak performance after snapping an Achilles’ tendon highly enough. One of the best Arts docs in a very long time

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                          • vinteuil
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 13211

                            Originally posted by johncorrigan View Post
                            I thoroughly enjoyed 'Towards Zero', the latest Agatha Christie adaptation on the Beeb. Great to see Angelica Huston and Clarke Peters in there. I thought that the guy who played Inspector Leach, Matthew Rhys, was particularly good, but it was a fine series. Call me old-fashioned but I do enjoy an Agatha Christie, partly, I think, because I know there's going to be some kind of resolution and I don't have to turn up for another season.
                            .... yes, loved it here too : and I agree that Matthew Rhys was particularly excellent : he has a lovely speaking voice, too. Ella Lily Hyland, who played the first Mrs Strange (the blonde) was also a bit of a find.

                            I was very tickled to see Neston Park being used for the exteriors of their mansion : it's a mile and a half from where I grew up, and I cycled by it every Saturday on my way to and from my piano lessons. By the magic of cinematography it was 'moved' from the middle of nowhere in north Wiltshire to a Cornish cliff...


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                            • johncorrigan
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 10515

                              Originally posted by vinteuil View Post

                              Ella Lily Hyland, who played the first Mrs Strange (the blonde) was also a bit of a find.
                              Completely agree, vinteuil. I thought she was excellent too...sultry!


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                              • Jazzrook
                                Full Member
                                • Mar 2011
                                • 3177

                                Ian Dury Night: BBC Four, Friday, 21 March starting at 9.15pm:



                                JR

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