“Culture in Quarantine” 2020

[Nick Armstrong]

As long as it isn’t an April Fool, this might provide some interesting viewing, though from the list it doesn’t fill me with huge hope:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2020/culture-in-quarantine-classical

Sadly, though, it doesn’t look as though they are intending at last to unearth some of those Prom etc archive concerts (in place of the unending pop and rock archive material served up every weekend on BBC Four)

[DracoM]

The fact that dratted Montalbano is on Sat nights on BBC4 tells you a lot.
Just canNOt see why the BBC keep renewing their contract. I love the BBC4 Sat Night noirs, but for me this is an absolute no-no.

[zola]

Record Review Extra on Sunday looks as if it may be interesting, including playing in full the building a library choice ( though of course none of these will be new building a library items it seems ) Now there's a novel idea. And the presenter isn't AMcG !

[Nick Armstrong]

Record Review Extra on Sunday looks as if it may be interesting, including playing in full the building a library choice ( though of course none of these will be new building a library items it seems ) Now there's a novel idea. And the presenter isn't AMcG !

True....

[BBMmk2]

I do my own Culture in Quarentine everyday, in my own home! As I can’t set foot outside, except for medical appointments.

[Flay]

From the radio, could I humbly recommend yesterday's The Turn of the Knob on R4 Extra - a wonderful spoof on The Screw

[Lordgeous]

Wouldn't this be an ideal time for the Beeb to draw on their huge archive of interesting and historic radio and TV broadcasts? Eg John Amis's interviews with performers and composers, Hans Keller's talks etc. No doubt there would be xome copyright problems for concerts, but...

[ahinton]

Wouldn't this be an ideal time for the Beeb to draw on their huge archive of interesting and historic radio and TV broadcasts? Eg John Amis's interviews with performers and composers, Hans Keller's talks etc. No doubt there would be xome copyright problems for concerts, but...

Far too good an idea for it as presently constituted to latch on to and do something about, I rather fear!...

[Dave2002]

The fact that dratted Montalbano is on Sat nights on BBC4 tells you a lot.
Just canNOt see why the BBC keep renewing their contract. I love the BBC4 Sat Night noirs, but for me this is an absolute no-no.

I guess I don't dislike Montalbano as much as you do - perhaps because it gives me a slight chance to pick up some Italian - and compare the dialects. However, it looks as though these are ones which have been on before anyway.

If nothing else I like the opening sequence, and the rather odd music which goes with it. Maybe I fall asleep in the middle anyway!

[eighthobstruction]

....here's one I think Caliban might like....https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000h9cp

[Nick Armstrong]

....here's one I think Caliban might like....https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000h9cp

Cheers will give it a try!

[Nick Armstrong]

Great series of filmed Shakespeare productions on the BBC Four page of the iPlayer.

Currently watching The Tempest filmed at the Globe with Roger Allam as Prospero (Jessie Buckley as Miranda, Colin Morgan as Ariel)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p08b02zz/culture-in-quarantine-shakespeare-the-tempest

Well reviewed in the Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/stage/20...t-globe-review

[LMcD]

Great series of filmed Shakespeare productions on the BBC Four page of the iPlayer.

Currently watching The Tempest filmed at the Globe with Roger Allam as Prospero (Jessie Buckley as Miranda, Colin Morgan as Ariel)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p08b02zz/culture-in-quarantine-shakespeare-the-tempest

Well reviewed in the Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/stage/20...t-globe-review

Roger Allam as Prospero - that I' ve got to see! Thanks for the heads-up. (We enjoyed the NT's 'Twelfth Night' last night - VERY physical and quite naughty at times. Stand-out performance by Tamsin Greig.

[bluestateprommer]

From yesterday's announcement on the latest "Culture in Quarantine" programming, some might like this part of it:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2020/ciq-tony-hall

"Bernard Haitink In His Own Words
BBC Four

Following the success off a portrait of Dame Janet Baker, acclaimed documentary maker, John Bridcut moves his lens to the retirement of one of the world’s most admired conductors at the age of 90, Bernard Haitink. In a feature length film for BBC Four: Bernard Haitink In His Own Words, John Bridcut explores the secrets of the art of conducting with Haitink himself and the international musicians who’ve worked with him in his 65-year career."

Other good news related to live music-making, in the spirit of the current Wigmore Hall lockdown concerts:

"Live classical music

Following the success of the socially distanced, specially staged, Wigmore Hall live classical concerts which have been broadcast also around Europe, at a time when classical performance is not available to audiences from the stage; BBC Radio 3 has confirmed it will return to Wigmore Hall in the autumn. There will be another run of socially distanced specially staged concerts. The station will also cover other events elsewhere in the UK in the summer and autumn with the aim of putting on more specially staged live concerts, as part of its role as the home of live classical music, keeping the lights on at a time when performance venues have been closed."