Drama - loved it - it's a jungle in there - who'd have thought it, staring into those Atlantic rockpools last week. The fight between the starfish and the limpet was especially incredible. A great bit of BBC. Fine pair of braces too.
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This should have been on BBC HD....oh wait, they've scrapped it!!
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I expect there was continual background music? I can't watch anything from the B.B.C. these days for that reason - a decided dampener.Comment
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How true. The same occurs with all radio programmes. I now utilise the subtitles facility for any item i feel is possibly worth watching on TV - a rare occurrenceOriginally posted by Sydney Grew View Post
I have complained - waste of time.Comment
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Didn't notice the music, Sydney - it was a great mix of seaside filming and stuff in the lab, with a really enthusiastic group of experts supporting paleontologist, Richard Fortey. I thought it was quite nicely amateurish, and I don't mean that in a bad way.Originally posted by Sydney Grew View PostComment
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I'm glad we recorded it then! My money would be on the (bearing in mind I've not yet watched it so may not be this species) Patella vulgata against the starfish...Best regards,
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Ditto. A carpet of musak normally irritates me (the latest Attenborough series have been rendered unwatchable imo) but I didn't notice it in the rockpool programme. Enjoyed hereOriginally posted by johncorrigan View Post
"...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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I agree with everyone's comments about Muzak on the BBC, and I also enjoyed the programme - for once I didn't feel the need to use the subtitles. Fortey has also written several books - I have read "Dry Store Room No. 1: The Secret Life Of The Natural History Museum" and "Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution", which are both enjoyable, especially the former.Originally posted by Caliban View PostDitto. A carpet of musak normally irritates me (the latest Attenborough series have been rendered unwatchable imo) but I didn't notice it in the rockpool programme. Enjoyed hereComment
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Only just noticed this thread - hadn't realised the programme was on, I see it's available until April 28th, must catch up, so thanks. One of the joys of British seaside holidays, to me, was to go searching in rockpools and seeing what was there - fascinating to see an underwater world and what was hiding under the weed and the rocks. (Also I think it started my rock collection phase, although I think most children have one of these? I still have some of the rocks and pebbles ....!! Plus a couple of ammonites from a Dorset beach and some iron pyrites and amethysts from, I think, a stream in Co. Durham?)Comment
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Seconded Caliban - especially the Trilobite book (as a Geology graduate, I found this especially good)Originally posted by Pikaia View PostBest regards,
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I see it is repeated tonight at 10pm.Comment
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Originally posted by amateur51 View PostAgreed - orthodontics is a remarkable science
Did I say braces, Am? I meant gallasses!
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I would like to think I imagined this but I think I heard a trail on Radio Three a few days ago, with that irritating beat behind the voice, like it's Radio 1!, (or sitting next to a teenager on the tube).Originally posted by gamba View Post
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