Originally posted by AuntDaisy
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Re. get_iplayer.
"You might think that... I couldn’t possibly comment."
I need to check an off-air for the broken Bruckner - it's possible it was a transmission error, in which case will they fix it?
The best iPlayer / Sounds mix-up was with Nick Dear's "Pure Science" on 4 extra - as a tribute to Patrick Troughton, but they broadcast the sections out of order & the play made no sense (e.g. Perkins murdered part way through, only to reappear hale and hearty later on).
I recorded the play on tape when it was first broadcast in 1983 and also had the script, so pointed out the error - only to be told I was wrong!
After persevering with the complaint, they finally agreed... but the next attempt at reassembly on Sounds was also wrong (they'd picked a different "random" place to start).
It was only when I contacted someone directly at the BBC and included a scan of the first page of the script that they finally fixed it and included a "This programme has been edited since broadcast" announcement at the beginning.
As Elizabeth Spriggs says at the beginning of the play "Talk, talk, talk. Blooming talk"...
It's great that 4 extra broadcast so many old plays from the Archives - long may it continue!
"You might think that... I couldn’t possibly comment."
I need to check an off-air for the broken Bruckner - it's possible it was a transmission error, in which case will they fix it?
The best iPlayer / Sounds mix-up was with Nick Dear's "Pure Science" on 4 extra - as a tribute to Patrick Troughton, but they broadcast the sections out of order & the play made no sense (e.g. Perkins murdered part way through, only to reappear hale and hearty later on).
I recorded the play on tape when it was first broadcast in 1983 and also had the script, so pointed out the error - only to be told I was wrong!
After persevering with the complaint, they finally agreed... but the next attempt at reassembly on Sounds was also wrong (they'd picked a different "random" place to start).
It was only when I contacted someone directly at the BBC and included a scan of the first page of the script that they finally fixed it and included a "This programme has been edited since broadcast" announcement at the beginning.
As Elizabeth Spriggs says at the beginning of the play "Talk, talk, talk. Blooming talk"...
It's great that 4 extra broadcast so many old plays from the Archives - long may it continue!
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