I just don't get it when representations of characters, real life or not, have to be followed by updates, years later
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They've done that with Whisky Galore. The remake is just dull compared with the original...which I think is on TV tonight.
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Never mind that. Which channel?Originally posted by ardcarp View PostThey've done that with Whisky Galore. The remake is just dull compared with the original...which I think is on TV tonight.
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This R4 show In Praise of Flies was informative but, even more so, hilarious:
Dr Erica McAlister ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erica_McAlister ) is a star. She also pops up enthusing amusingly about bugs in the current Channel 5 series about the Natural History Museum (which is a good watch)."...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 Bryn View Post
Whisky Galore is about to start!
(I imagine it will be available after, on iPlayer. There’s a very good collection of fillums built up there...)."...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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Better late than never. Trouble is, all the good whisky is upstairs (not 50,000 cases, however). All I have down here with the television is Bells. I'll just have to disguise it with some spiced orange ginger ale (from the fever tree).Originally posted by Nick Armstrong View PostComment
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Three delightful culinary-related stories in last night's Outlook on BBC World Service presented by the excellent Jo Fidgen.
Tasting the desert with Chile's leading forager
As a child Patricia Pérez would accompany her grandmother on incredible adventures in Chile's Atacama Desert. There they would search for unique herbs and plants by day and sleep in caves at night. Her grandmother would sell the herbs they found in markets and Patricia is now taking that tradition one step further. She started a company called La Atacameña and the herbs she forages are being used by five star hotels, a chocolate company and a restaurant that has been named one of the best in the world.
Someone else who really appreciates grandmothers is restaurateur Jody Scaravelli. He runs Enoteca Maria, a restaurant on New York's Staten Island where all the cooks are older women. He was inspired by his own grandmother, an Italian immigrant who was also a wonderful cook. Jody started out hiring only Italian women but now he has grandmothers from all over the world. Our reporter Tara Gadomski visited the restaurant in 2018, but during lockdown it's been forced to close. However, the staff are keeping busy handing out free soup once a week to healthcare workers.
We end our culinary tour in Berlin where Outlook's Jo Fidgen went to meet one of the world's top chefs in 2017. Tim Raue's road to the top has been less than smooth. As a child he says he was physically abused by his father, an experience that led him down a violent path. He ended up joining a street gang - an experience that he claims actually helped to prepare him for life working in a frantic professional kitchen.Comment
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RADIO 4 ANY ANSWERS is once again the most compelling and heartbreaking programme currently on Radio 4...firsthand from NHS staff or those who have lost people to Covid itself....or trying to cope with the alienation of isolation......sometimes quite hard to listen to.... tends to give you more of the stark truth than Any Questions, very good though that usually is...
The Four Horsemen Ride Again.....seeming stronger than ever......Last edited by jayne lee wilson; 17-01-21, 02:22.Comment
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From the first episode on Radio 4 today, this series of 10 15-minute weekday programmes, presented in her inimitable way by the wonderful Alice Roberts, promises to be thought provoking and, I would say, a necessary sideswipe and timely antidote to some of the fundamentalist, often dangerous ideas that seem to have caught the spirit of the times.
18 Jan - Radio 4
1.45pm - Bodies
1/10 Cutting and Crisis
Alice Roberts traces how human knowledge of anatomy has grown and changed. She begins by asking how people see their bodies and examines the idea of the soul and the need for it to somehow be meshed into the human picture of the body.
Thus sayeth the write up, but this is not quite what Roberts is on about. Hear her for yourselves:
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I really like Andy Zaltzman as the chair on 'The News Quiz'. Most entertaining!Comment
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I'm re-posting this about The Islander, which I think I put under the wrong heading:
I don't think I've ever been so entertained and thrilled than by Friday afternoon's R4 Drama at 2.15.
The whole thing was performed by just two women who did all the voices, sung and spoken, along with a lot of technical wizardry. They swung in and out of music. poetry and witty dialogue in seamless fashion. I was utterly transported and I really recommend this, especially using headphones to get the full effect. Music superb with clever rhythmic patterns.
The two-hander female cast sing all the songs, perform a whole host of characters, while weaving, building and layering their voices to create all the sound effects into an expansive, ethereal soundscape for the ears and imagination.
Performed and sung by Kirsty Findlay and Bethany Tennick
Winner of Musical Theatre Review’s Best Musical Award – Edinburgh Fringe 2019Comment
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