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

Your welcome, am half way through.

 

I've subscribed to Britbox free months trial, anyone else? So far quite impressed, I will probably buy it when the free trial is up.

 

I am enjoying watching series 1 & 2 of the Sinner at the moment.

 

To answer the original question, because they broadcast stuff like this:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0001rz0

Hardly Sat night viewing, specially after a home win, but there is always space for programmes like this every Yuletide.

It's right up there with David Lean films and Carry On Up the Jungle as a sine quar non televisually speaking.

 

Yes, I saw these on Netflix a really good watch.

 

Is anyone else enjoying The Magic Flute right now?

No, just me then.

 

This is literal, right?

You’re not in some bizarre Germanic sex den are you?

 

Don’t drag me into it...and keep me there

 

BBC4 is a brilliant channel. It shows some great programmes on classical music as well as rock and roll. I am disappointed that people on here seem not aware of the former.

I am not now and never have been in a Germanic sex den. But I confess to an interest in the music, culture and history of the Weimar Republic (e.g. Weill, Pabst, Dietrich).

 

I have lived in Germany, I know the places Ernie refers to, you are too young.

 

Can't wait to see it, whilst simultaneously already dreading the range of attempted Hull accents we'll get to witness. Hopefully Tom can steer 'em right on set.

 

"Although partly set in 19th century in Hull, onshore scenes in the drama are due to be filmed in Hungary later this year."

GERTCHA

 

Never been a big Beatles fan but 'A Hard Day's Night' on now is, as they say, gear.

 

To be fair it captured the mood of the times very well. How they toured, made films and still wrote so many great songs in such a short space of time is unbelieveable.

 

I mentioned this on Chazz's Book Club a while ago. It was a good read so hopefully a good watch too.

 

The Hull parts are mainly set around 19th Wincolmlee, in boatyards and processing houses associated with the dying entrails of the whaling industry. They occur at the beginning and end of the book, setting the scene of the story and tying up the loose ends. It's quite dark and bleak, both literally and metaphorically. The main bulk of the story takes place on the whaling grounds.

I guess somewhere in Hungary must look more like Victorian seafaring Hull than current day Hull does.

 

Being landlocked would make some elements difficult, unless we can imagine whaling boats/ships could shimmy up & down the Danube ?

 

Yes Tom Courtenay will really struggle with the accent.

 

Last night Chris Packham prog about how punk positively impacted his troubled adolescence.

Interviews with Jordan, the gay vicar out the Communards, Tom Robinson, Jamie Reid, Pauline from Penetration etc

None of these are A listers, which just shows how punk was all things to all people.