Off Topic Why is BBC4 TV such a brilliant DOCUMENTARY channel ?

Yes, Salamander would be good. Even better will be the new series of Spiral.

 

The 1st series of Salamander was very good !

 

Still not watched that I think you've recommended that to me before ;!
I will have to get around to it

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00l21wg

From D Day to Berlin

Stunning footage.

 

A decent pair of shows tonight on Beeb 4,
"Popular voices @ the Beeb : 1.3 Truth Tellers"

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episo...rters-popular-voices-series-1-3-truth-tellers

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episo...t-the-bbc-series-1-3-truth-tellers-at-the-bbc

 

I Can Go For That - The Smooth World of Yacht Rock tonight at 21.00 hrs tonight

 

Just watched 4 episodes of "The Alan Clark Diaries ", which I'd never seen - hey I only started streaming UK TV 12 years ago - this series aired in early 2004.
Superb. John Hurt & a tremendous supporting cast.
No politics I know, but I didn't mention the word. You may well think that Matty, but I really couldn't comment.

 

Rather apt isn't it ??

 

Might not be a mad world, but in many ways a very sad world. Possibly getting better ?

 

I'm not sure mate.. I've heard things recently that make me think we haven't moved that far from the 70 s after previously thinking we had

 

We can only do our little bit to change the direction & improve the situation if you ask me.

 

Broaden your horizons and you will broaden your mind !
Intollerance and refusal to take into account other people's views will leave you with a closed mind .
The latter as no appeal !

 

Exactly.

 

Just watched this documentary from BBC4 archive - part of a series called "The Train Now Departing from..."
Great bit of history.
In "World Cup Summer of '66" - remember that ? - I was working at Capper Pass in Melton, unloading the rail carriages full of jute bags containing reject tin dust from Bolivian mines. Working conditions were Dickensian - no kidding. Capper Pass (subsid of RTZ) had ingenious processes for extracting all sorts of valuable metals from low grade ores from all over the world. The locomotives that shunted the carriages of ore into the plant were fantastic steam engines. I recall with awe some of the wheels being close to 10 feet in diameter ( I may be exaggerating I suppose, but that is my memory from the time).
A good series for anyone remotely interested in the history of rail in Britain.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p011v86f/the-train-now-departing-5-lines-of-industry

edit: Bloody hell - just found this...still an issue the old site (3 years ago anyway !)

EDIT: I can't find anything subsequent to 2016 on this issue. Anyone with local knowledge know if anything has progressed since then after this ?

 

Really interesting tc, I watched both videos. So almost thirty years on and it appears the Rio Tinto Zinc got away with probable corporate man slaughter and no one on the East Riding Council gives a damn.

45 years ago I had an old moped that I used to keep at a house on Brickyard Lane, I used to ride it on the old slag area at the bottom of Capper Pass, god knows what I was breathing in but I’m one of the lucky ones as I’m still here.

I’ve also looked to see if I can find any more recent information on the demolition and making safe of the site, and the same as yourself I can’t find anything. It strangely, but maybe unsurprisingly, looks to have gone very quiet after 2016. Maybe it’s part of the obvious ongoing cover up of all things Capper Pass an RTZ.

Brown paper envelopes?

 

It's 50 years since the moon landing.
Slightly off topic, but heavily connected with the reason for space exploration...the BBC4 series "Men of Rock" is excellent.
Iain Stewart is a superb presenter of the science of geology.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00wkc23/men-of-rock-1-deep-time

 

Growing up in Ferriby I remember this all very well. The smell as described was real with a sort of fog/haze associated with it. I remember on at least one occasion pretty much the whole village was covered in a white dust or ash. It looked like it had snowed. God knows what was in that ash.

 

BBC2 shortly 'Orson Welles talks Cinema', followed by 'The Third Man'

 

Doc on fledgling SAS in the Desert War (WW2). Tues 8pm BBC4 (catchup on iPlayer).
Excellent. (Repeat from Feb '17).

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b08f00s0/sas-rogue-warriors-series-1-episode-1

 

Whether it is the best film is subjective, I think it is certainly the best British one, but still my favourite film. Best use of music to create and add to the atmosphere in any film. Though the ending is different to the book. The significance of the cat in this classic scene is more apparent in the book.