I have it on good authority that this was an excellent programme..and an excellent soundtrack too! .. awaiting the repeatage on Monday night..
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Yes I expected it would be a good prog'....decided I would not watch it....fed up with these rich smoothies, no matter how clever and initiative they are....vast monstrosities of ego.... This pig built his house of dog hair and vacuum cleaner dust....
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Ummm. OK, fair enough.Originally posted by eighthobstruction View Post
Apparently the first in a series called The Brits who Built the Modern World.."Gone Chopin, Bach in a minuet."Comment
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Is there a distinction between a repeatage and a repeat?Originally posted by Radio64 View PostIt isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.Comment
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no. just my little 'in' joke.Originally posted by french frank View Post
"Gone Chopin, Bach in a minuet."Comment
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Programme 1 was very interesting, especially in the application of the "public service" ethos purporting to be represented in some of the 1960s and '70s work of these guys.
While I have to say that I much prefer "Hi-tech" architecture to Brutalism (see Jonathan Meades thread) I've never come to terms with the Pompidou Centre, apart from some of the sounds that it has produced.
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well while the great and the good of the architectural world are playing with vast sums of money for velodromes, (apologies to anybody who is off to their local bike racing this weekend), and building symbols of power for the banks, the rest of us get this crap dumped on us.
The western side of Southampton city centre has been destroyed by politicians and architects in the pay of big companies.
Oh, and that is one of the better parts of West Quay Road, by the way, and in real life it looks a LOT worse.I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
I am not a number, I am a free man.Comment
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