Recommended Television Programmes

[gradus]

Reminders of Face to Face in both it's Freeman and Isaacs incarnations on BBC4 this evening. The full length interviews - Paul Eddington, Tony Hancock and Joan Baez are only rivalled by John Wilson's programme these days imv but being where we are, I couldn't help wishing that Otto Klemperer/Freeman had been given an airing.

[smittims]

All the Freeman Face to Faces (except Albert Finney where permission was withheld) have been available on DVD for some years. I found the older subjects the more interesting (Lord Birkett, Bertrand Russell and especially Lord Reith) though atthe time Adam Faith was a surprise for most viewers who found he was a much more serious person than they had supposed.

[Jazzrook]

A ‘Face to Face’ that deserves to be seen again:

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=VLwmv-1AZDg

JR

[kernelbogey]

Having missed it until now, I have become a devoted fan of Detectorists. All three seres (the first appeared 10 years ago) plus two Christmas specials are now on iPlayer.

Wonderfully written, beautifully acted by Toby Jones and Mackenzie Crook, it's a loving paean to male friendship.

[LMcD]

Having missed it until now, I have become a devoted fan of Detectorists. All three seres (the first appeared 10 years ago) plus two Christmas specials are now on iPlayer.

Wonderfully written, beautifully acted by Toby Jones and Mackenzie Crook, it's a loving paean to male friendship.

[Serial_Apologist]

Channel 4's 3-part School Swap: UK to USA, mentioned on the Reasons to be Fearful thread - last episode next week - is proving revealingly well-worth watching. One is still drawing afterthoughts from it, but at this stage perhaps the most instructive is the ease of confidence oozing from the Americans concerning their absolute confidence in their lifestyles and belief systems - one 19-yr old dab hand with shotguns lad, not at all happy to be finding himself surrounded by Brixton, saying "I just love killing animals" on at least two occasions, the camera swinging to a rooftop to pick out three potential pigeons. Sad to see the English girls so immersed in their mobile phones unsure as to what they should think and feel about their temporary new surrounds in Arkansas. This says so disturbingly much about the cultural lot(tery) informing our own young minds just up the road from me - on which the Bible Belt recipe book offers no chance of a critical perspective, in either direction.

[Serial_Apologist]

A ‘Face to Face’ that deserves to be seen again:

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=VLwmv-1AZDg

JR

Another magnetic John Burger presentation:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_Mmz4-v7CU

[LMcD]

Assuming that it's OK to enthuse here about 'non-linear' (i.e. streamed) programmes, can I just say that I found the first part of the Netflix drama 'Adolescence' utterly absorbing?. Each episode takes place in real time, comprising one continuous shot. Stephen Graham fans won't be disappointed (are they ever?).

[kernelbogey]

I'm recommending an interview in the Observer with Clemency Burton-Hill, as a trailer for a documentary she's made about how music has helped her recover from her catastrophic brain injury.

I believe music can go to places that words will never be able to reach. There’s this kind of atomic force when you’re hearing music or witnessing it together as performers or as an audience.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-r...an-save-a-life.

• My Brain: After the Rupture is on BBC Two, Friday 28 March, 9pm

[Nick Armstrong]

Re Wolf Hall covered in this thread, and declining BBC standards due to cost-cutting covered widely on the Forum, this is informative and sobering:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3w10816en3o

[LMcD]

Re Wolf Hall covered in this thread, and declining BBC standards due to cost-cutting covered widely on the Forum, this is informative and sobering:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3w10816en3o

Well, somebody seems to have managed - unfortunately IMHO - to find enough dosh to go ahead with Sunday night's new 9.00 p.m. drama.
I fear we may never again see anything as good as "Wolf Hall' - well, not on 'linear' TV anyway.

[Serial_Apologist]

Well, somebody seems to have managed - unfortunately IMHO - to find enough dosh to go ahead with Sunday night's new 9.00 p.m. drama.
I fear we may never again see anything as good as "Wolf Hall' - well, not on 'linear' TV anyway.

Adolescence should have been picked up by the BBC, rather than letting it go to Netfiix, imv.

[LMcD]

Adolescence should have been picked up by the BBC, rather than letting it go to Netfiix, imv.

I've just watched Episode 2 - it certainly doesn't pull its punches, does it? A first-class cast delivering a first-class screenplay.

[LMcD]

I'm recommending an interview in the Observer with Clemency Burton-Hill, as a trailer for a documentary she's made about how music has helped her recover from her catastrophic brain injury.

I believe music can go to places that words will never be able to reach. There’s this kind of atomic force when you’re hearing music or witnessing it together as performers or as an audience.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-r...an-save-a-life.

• My Brain: After the Rupture is on BBC Two, Friday 28 March, 9pm

Clemency Burton-Hill interview on today's BBC1 Breakfast programme, starting at 08.19.

[JSB Rules]

Re: Detectorists.

My wife and I are on our fourth time round for this wonderful series (and I'm sure that's nothing compared with some other folks!) It is so peaceful to watch, so funny, so poignant. And the acting... just superb!