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Police procedural - PSNI based.
Watched the first episode, really not my cup of tea. Binged 2&3 whilst bored and fluey - Brilliantly made - right up there with Hill Street Blues.
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Brilliant prog, watched every episode so far.
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Just watched all of the episodes, really enjoyed it.
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I got this totally wrong...thought it was an ‘Office’ type comedy.
Sydney based comedy, recommended by a pal. Laugh out loud.
On iPlayer, 1 series. 8 episodes. Hope there’s more to come.
Trying not to binge watch.
Colin is adorable
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Linky thing for the intellectually challenged?
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I suspect the PC 'woke' brigade haven't discovered the antipodes and hope they don't. There's some good stuff comes from there.
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>> I suspect the PC 'woke' brigade haven't discovered the antipodes and hope they don't. There's
>> some good stuff comes from there.
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Well, they've discovered this and so have I, it's really good:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/apr/29/couples-jokes-so-irritating-not-so-in-colin-from-accounts
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Couldn’t resist. Binge watched it. Great stuff...my kind of humour.
And loved the final episode with its range of emotions
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Not just to be contrary, but having read so much good about it, I tried it.
Not for me at all. I had no idea if it was supposed to be funny, and was too bored to complete episode one. I couldn't care a jot about the characters
Ah well, must be something else out there for us oddities.
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>> funny, and was too bored to complete episode one. I couldn't care a jot about
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You and me both.
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Same for me, my wife loved it and "got it"
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Did I laugh? Not much. Did I enjoy it? Yes, hugely. Funny thing humour……or not as the case may be.
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just catching up with this on i player. proper good comedy. i would have thought everybody in here would .love it
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>> just catching up with this on i player. proper good comedy. i would have
>> thought everybody in here would .love it
Alas, you’d be wrong! I lasted maybe ten minutes of episode one.
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>> Agreed
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I'm glad it's not only me. I never cracked a smile.
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On BBC iPlayer
Probably another marmite series....I thought it very funny, even hilarious in parts.
Adult humour and strong language.
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About a serial Killer in 1970s South Wales. Starring Philip - Fire up the Quattro - Glenister.
Ok drama cold case drama, but contains a very good depiction of the 70's with many late 60's and early 70's motors.
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I liked the UK version and thought I'd try the US. Thoroughly enjoyed it and think it may have been better than the original. Very obviously based on the original and shown later at night, I suspect because of the slightly more adult humour.
I also watched the film Pride last night. Not a subject matter I'd normally be interested in, but it seemed to have some good reviews. A pleasant enough film, although it did seem to lose it's pace towards the end.
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Available on Paramount+
Basically the Enterprise before Kirk, but with Spock, Uhura and Nurse Chapel. The captain is Captain Pike (from the pilot and a couple of episodes from the 1960's TV series). Lieutenant Kirk makes appearances from time to time.
It's clearly done on a budget, but very well done.
There's the usual mix of episodes including time travel, suspense, fighting, Klingons etc.
It's also got a sense of humour. In one episode characters from the future are animated - top quality animation, then become normal when travelling back in time.
In another, the whole thing is done as a musical - and very well done at that with cappella theme tune and full orchestra for songs which fit the plot - quite a risk to do and done well.
Anyway, I enjoy it, perhaps you will too.
Last edited by: zippy on Thu 10 Aug 23 at 19:46
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Plane hijacking drama with Idris Elba. Well made and very watchable although could never quite put Airplane! out of my mind.
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The continuing saga of Kenneth Branagh's working holiday around the Med and the Adriatic sees him in Venice on 31st October 1947.
A suitably spooky who-done-it. Quite enjoyable. Unlike his sunny jaunts on the Orient Express and the on the Nile, this film takes place mostly at night, well it would, being about a haunting.
Suitably enjoyable. Made me jump out at one point to Mrs Z humour.
Would like to see more of the quirky OCD introduced by Branagh in the first film.
Looking forward to the next one.
7/10
Last edited by: zippy on Tue 3 Oct 23 at 23:07
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Outstanding moustache work!
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No Cinema. Not yet released for streaming. Well worth a trip to the cinema. Been a good year for film.
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I only asked as when looking which channel it was on I found it's on at the local Cineworld here in Portugal atm. I don't usually do movies, and def not out here (though it might be cheaper than out local one!)
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If I remember correctly Portugal is one of those countries that uses subtitles rather tyan a dubbed version so watching the film out there would be possible (am assuming you don’t speak Portuguese)
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Even though it's dipped to 29 degrees today (it's been over 30 for most of he 1 1/2 weeks we've been here!!) it's still too warm to be sitting round indoors, unless beer is on hand :-)
We're here will early Nov so the time may come...
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Excellent series on ITV. Seven episodes seemed lenghty but we watched it in a couple of goes.
Drama based telling of the Yorkshire Ripper
Excellent acting from David Morrisey (as George Oldfield) some lovely motors as a bonus.
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A familiar story but worth watching. We lived in the area circumscribed by the loci of his offences in Bradford, Halifax and Huddersfield and my wife was one of many women who did no go out alone at night for years. A young colleague of her sister was a victim. Oldfield himself was an irregular at my dad's local.
It was clear from the amount and apparent randomness of police activity that they were making no progress right up to the night that a couple of Sheffield coppers happened on him parked up with a sex worker in a car with false plates. They had been stopping any man they could find out alone in a car late at night. That didn't include me, but a neighbour whose habit it was to be out late was pulled at least half a dozen times. I was actually wondering if it could be him.
I wouldn't criticize any of the drama, it fits very well with my memory of the time.
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It's very well done.
I can only watch one episode at a time much to Mrs Z's annoyance - she loves this type of thing.
I get upset that people can be so evil.
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My wife wouldn't go out alone after one victim...Jean Jordan, I think....was found on allotments about 3/4 mile from here. I saw the main road was closed off by the allotments on my way home about 6pm.
The allotment was that of Bruce ( Les Battersby ) Jones, the Corrie actor. I think he found her when he and a pal visited to do some work. He was a suspect for a short time. It was where the infamous £5 note was found.
Oldfield was useless, obsessed by the false tape, he ignored other evidence. I later worked with a colleague who was on the case and we discussed it all in quiet periods at work..
Very good docu-drama though.
Ted
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Miss FC went to Leeds Uni and her first year accommodation was at Lupton Residences on Alma Rd in Headingley. Jacqueline Hill was his last victim and was murdered yards from her accommodation block. I didn't realise until after she moved in.
As it was she couldn't settle there and moved. I disclosed the information then.
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Caught last nights episode and was shocked at the victim blaming!
I hope this has changed?
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Bob Ring, the cop who pulled him and then found the weapons, was a member of our local golf club. Without his uniform he looked more like a middle-aged marathon runner than a copper. Old school down to earth plod with a nose for something not quite right.
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There's no doubt we owe Bob Ring and his colleague(s) a serious debt of gratitude. If the drama was anywhere near correct there was ample opportunity to let Sutcliffe slip or bail him so he could have removed evidence but they didn't.
And how fortunate that Sutcliffe was so daft as to use to use stolen plates.
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New series of Slow Horses begins on Apple TV tomorrow.
Last edited by: VxFan on Wed 29 Nov 23 at 11:03
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Looking forward to it, I hope my nefarious ways of watching it still work.
Last edited by: VxFan on Wed 29 Nov 23 at 11:03
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Just renewed my EE SIM only contract and apparently I can get 6 months Apple TV free
Perfect for watching Slow Horses
No nefariousness involved. Not that I’d know how.
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Well, nefariously, I have now watched two episodes of S3, and cracking TV it is.
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Another from BBC Alba. Ex BA pilot Bill McInnes talks a bit about his life flying the line from Rapides to the 767 and then takes a trip in a Spitfire at age 92. Gaelic language with English subtitles:
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001tv1y/bill-agus-an-spitfire
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We've covered the debacle within these pages on several occasions.
A dramatisation is being aired on ITV at the moment and it is very good.
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Talking Pictures, various times/dates. They've been airing the French Maigret series with the late Bruno Cremer as our hero. Over 50 of these 2 hour dramas set in the 50s and filmed in the 90s. Cremer died around 2010 at 80+ yrs and now lies in the Cimitiere de Montmatre.
SWM and I have found Saturday night TV awful so one of these episodes just fills up nicely. Good atmosphere, clear subtitles and a fair few of different French cars to look at rather than just the Citroen Tractions that appear in other productions. Getting them all on the TIVO Box.
Ted.
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On Amazon Prime, worth watching. Sad and funny in equal measures.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Flag_Flying
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Downloaded the first two episodes last night, watched the first. In short its "Band of Brothers" relocated to the USAAF 100th bomb group, Thorpe Abbots, Norfolk.
very good, good acting, good CGI (as most of it has to be) it has a well created 1950s style of filming.
Apple TV.
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Watched two episodes last night, seems to be a decent production. I box-setted Band of Brothers a couple of weeks ago. Still a mightily impressive work.
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I'm at a dog show in Diss in April, might pop round to the Thrope Abbot 100thbomb group museum, in the still extant control tower.
Love old WW2 airfields, explored a few, best Being RAF Kings Cliffe, which had mixed RAF/USAAF. Lot of stuff still extant (and underground) with the Glen Miller memorial nearby (played his last hanger concert there)
Most exciting urban explore was the nuclear bomb store for RAF Wittering.
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Just started watching this.
A chap called Colin Kirsch, who once sold me a dateless registration number, supplied the film makers with 133 vintage bikes. He posts some quite interesting stuff on FB.
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Third episode (out yesterday Friday 2.2.24) was brilliant, best so far
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I must subscribe to Apple TV…think I got 6 months free on my new EE mobile contract. Slow Horses & Masters of the Air. Perfect for staying in and dry February. Personally, January was a very wet month after dry Christmas & New Year.
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Well I saw it on my TV, as I missed it at the cinema.
Wow, what a film, even SHMBO enjoyed it immensely. Be warned tho, there is a shocking unexpected bit towards the end, not for the squeamish. Its a must see.
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Yes was a very good film. Shailene Woodley who played Enzo’s wife gave a brilliant performance.
Have been a run of good films lately. Apart from Ferrari have enjoyed Priscilla, The Boys in the Boat and The Holdovers which I saw yesterday. The latter is the best film comedy I have seen for a very long while and thoroughly rfecommended.
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A series of three started last night.
www.itv.com/watch/tiktok-murder-gone-viral/10a2945/10a2945a0001
Awfully compelling.
What conclusions did you draw from it?
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A real nostalgia trip with Jack Hargreaves and shown on Southern TV. I don't know if other regions got it.
It's currently being shown on Talking Pictures. I don't think they have all of them though.
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I've got a lot of them on either VHS or DVD somewhere!
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IMDB report that many episodes are "lost". You may be able to help complete a collection somewhere.
Last edited by: zippy on Sun 11 Feb 24 at 19:29
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Ignoring the series with the awful song by Max Bygraves, I remember the series that had the guitar solo theme.
Recuerdos de la Alhambra, (Memories of the Alhambra) composed by the Spanish guitarist and composer Francisco Tárrega in 1896. Probably the most technically accomplished version is that by Narciso Yepes - youtu.be/EQGBbLBShzk?t=32, tho I prefer the version by Sharon Isbin which has more feeling in the pauses and lifts. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1N77zyOXfIU&ab_channel=SharonIsbin
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Found this by accident channel hopping last night:
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/guide/bbcfour/20240211
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What are we looking at/listening to?
When I click on that link I get BBC4 with the sound of traffic, or birds?
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www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m001tts2/the-space-shuttle-that-fell-to-earth
Brilliantly done in classic BBC documentary style. Most of the prime movers interviewed. One of the crew of Columbia had the best name ever for an Astronaut.....Willie McCool, a shocking tragedy.
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Started last night on ITV - a docudrama on Covid in the NHS,
Knowing that several posters work (or have relations working) in the NHS did this reflect reality, or has it been enhanced 'Casualty' style?
Will it attract the same public support (and realisation of Government role) as the dramatised Post Office vs Postmasters series.
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It seems to me far too early to start watching a drama about COVID I would have thought most people would want to forget about it
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>> It seems to me far too early to start watching a drama about COVID I
>> would have thought most people would want to forget about it
Is that a direct quote from Boris Johnson?!
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www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001xr50/ukraine-enemy-in-the-woods
Follows a small unit as they defend a railway line in Eastern Ukraine.
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www.imdb.com/title/tt9051908
Probably Bill Nighy's best acting so far - he got an Oscar nomination for it. Written by Kazuo Ishiguro (the Nobel prize winner) and based on Akira Kurosawa's Ikiru.
It's a slow ponderous film of a story told many times before.
So why have I posted? Well Bill acts his socks off for once. It's also beautifully filmed (it feels like the 1950's) and it's very well written and whilst it is a story that has been told before, this version is so well told that it's worth watching.
7/10 and it's on Amazon Prime.
(PS for Zero - there are steam trains in it :-D )
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>> (PS for Zero - there are steam trains in it :-D )
Yeah, it was shot on the Bluebell Railway, and featured their BR Standard Class 4MT 2-6-4 Tank Locomotive
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I watched that in one of my Prime freebie periods. I thought it was superb. Made me think of the 2 years I spent working at County Hall for the GLC in the late sixties.
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Brilliant acting, music, photography, script, the way it merged characters from S1. Somwhere between Hill Street Blues and the Sweeney only more so.
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I don't recall why but we gave up on that after the first couple of series 1. Maybe will try again.
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All the characters are either unpleasant or pathetic.
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Actually as heard on the radio.
Bobby, did you hear the episode of Radio 4's 'Toast' looking at Safeway?
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001yqpk
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Nope??
Don’t think I have ever listened to Radio 4 in my life!!
Any good?
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>> Any good?
Well it kept my attention driving home from an 'Outreach' in Kettering.
We used Safeway both at home and at my Mother Out Laws where there was a creche for the kiddley winks while we shopped. They pioneered self checkout and had fast times from field to store ahead of their rivals.
Given what you've said of your history you here and on HJ you were the person I thought of while listening.
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Have actually downloaded it on my Sounds App so will take a listen on my next walk.
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Brompt, listened to it today.
Quite interesting though only scratched the surface, think it was only 20 odd mins long.
Brought back memories of being bought up by a company much smaller than ourselves!!
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>> Nope??
>> Don’t think I have ever listened to Radio 4 in my life!!
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Radio 4 - yes. Very.
Good in depth news, arts - did a piece on Beethoven's 9th tonight for the 200th anniversary (Ode to Joy).
Documentaries - there was an amazing documentary on whales protecting other animals from Orcas recently.
Plays.
Comedy, 18:30 every weekday evening.
This weekend (or next) need to check. Christopher Ecclestone in "The Man Who Fell to Earth".
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Radio 4 has been a fixture in my life for years. Also Radio 4 Extra has programmes from the last 50 years. Some of the comedy has aged badly but gems like Round the Horne”, Hancock’s Half Hour are worth a listen.
Before I retired my morning commute had the 4 Extra morning 8 am comedy hour while homeward bound I tried to catch the Radio 4 6.30 pm comedy slot mentioned by zippy.
Somebody once said that they preferred radio to TV as the pictures were better
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>> Radio 4 has been a fixture in my life for years.
Same here. Dad always had it on in the car when the news was on, World at One, PM etc.
Occasionally they play the little jingle that used to come up between segments of PM. It takes me straight back to Dad's Simca 1500 estate and trips to the lakes leaving after school finished for the holidays.
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I used to listen to Radio four a lot but over the last few years have increasingly been using Times Radio for News and current affairs and various podcasts as well as audio books for entertainments and documentary coverage.
Radio four seems trapped in the past and drastically needs a major overhaul if it is to retain any relevance. They could start with ditching “The Archers”, Women’s’ Hour, and the cringeworthy “Thought for the Day”. “You and Yours” should swiftly follow.
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>> Same here. Dad always had it on in the car when the news was on,
>> World at One, PM etc.
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>That is the whole problem with the channel. It’s a nostalgia fest for the over sixties and has precious little relevance for anyone else.
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Over 10m U.K. people listen to Radio 4 and the average listener age is 56 years. It’s the second most popular channel after Radio 2. I don’t see that being popular with an older age group is a problem.
There are plenty of alternatives for those who have more youthful tastes.
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Well the problem is that if it doesn’t get more younger listeners now in it will have an increasingly ageing audience until eventually its main audience will be care home residents.
Listeners don’ t suddenly decide to listen to Radio Four when they get to the age of sixty. As.many of the above posts show they have been listeners for many years and so continue to listen as they get older. If you are not a Radio Four listener when you are sixty you won’t suddenly decide to start listening to it. Radio Four needs to acquire younger intelligent listeners now and make sure it holds on to them by providing relevant content. As much as some of their current listeners will howl and send irate letters to “Feed back” and the Radio Times it need to be done if the channel is to survive into the future.
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>.. its main audience will be care home residents.
Rebrand as Radio Ga-Ga?
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I'm surprised the average listener age is the low, I'd have guessed much higher.
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SWMBO is a great fan of Radio 4. I really look forward to the Sunday Archers....not. It annoys her when I refer to it as " The Shouty Show ", it just seems to be people arguing and screaming at each other. Is there actually a plot ? I might listen if they discussed pig futures or rapeseed yields but there seems very little of that !
She has TV on when she gets up and comes down stairs to compound my misery in the week. Old Heartbeat, Wild at Heart, Where the Heart is' Friends and Judge Judy ! Squeaky voiced American women drive me up the wall. Discussion progs all seem to be people trying to interrupt others and get their opinions in without listening. Just ego trips.
I try and get the radio back to Classic FM until she comes back in and on goes the telly again ! Grrrr.
Ted
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I probably listen to about 3 or so hours a day audio. Rarely listen to live radio unless it’s maybe football commentary when I am in the car.
2 hours is the Get It On BBC Radio Scotland show on Sounds app. Mon to Thurs, every night there is a new theme and listeners contact show with songs to go with that theme so a very broad range of songs.
Half an hour or so of The Newsagents podcast. (Switched from The Rest is Politics as i found Alistair Campbell too shouty and arrogant)
And then maybe half an hour of Spotify music and/or another random podcast that might have been suggested to me to have a listen to.
Listen to a lot more since I got a set of AirPods. Can listen to stuff whilst sitting on the couch whilst the missus watches TV that I’m not interested in. Or while I’m cooking dinner, doing dishes/ washing cars etc. The AirPods are just so convenient to use.
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Just finished series 3. Very good, nice bit of humour, bit this is what farming is like, bit of humanity all brought to together very well.
Worth watching.
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Some of it is really unpleasant, (but compulsive) viewing (episodes 3 and 4).
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>> Just finished series 3. Very good, nice bit of humour, bit this is what farming
>> is like, bit of humanity all brought to together very well.
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Its all looking very staged now.
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www.imdb.com/title/tt0068054
From the 1970s. I didn't see it first time around (or if I did I was too young to remember it).
Follows a family trucking business and the extended family after the death of the firms founder.
It is very engaging and well acted.
Shame the BBC killed it off without wrapping the story up.
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I remember it well, zippy.
It was a sort of British Dallas in a low key way. I remember being in a busy pub in Ireland one night and all conversation stopping when The Brothers came on the TV behind the bar.
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>> I remember it well, zippy.
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>> It was a sort of British Dallas in a low key way. I remember being
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I caught something on YouTube about the series and it said it was a hit in several countries and the cast even made a Christmas album and the actors were mobbed.
I understand vicars complained that people left mass early so they would not miss any of the program.
The ladies alone are worth watching! :-)
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I remember it quite well, although I could take it or leave it.
I preferred the series about the family who built yachts, I think it was set around the Solent. Can't rememner the name.
Sort of damp Dallas !
Ted
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I preferred "Mogul" or the troubleshooters as it became
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uRausCd2qc
"The brothers" was, frankly, wet and limp.
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>> I preferred the series about the family who built yachts, I think it was set
>> around the Solent. Can't rememner the name.
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Howards' Way
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The fawley refinery and the the isle of wight was never quite the riviera
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Went on holiday last week, weather was a bit "edgy" and combined with Mrs RP's recovering broken leg did some chilling. One approach was to watch Slow Horses on Apple TV - what a great series - brilliantly written and filmed with a dark humour attached. Well worth watching !
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Episode 3 drops on Wednesday
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I'll have to make yet another attempt to log on to Apple.
As I've said before, read the books. They are brilliant. Mick Herron is a top class writer, up there with the very best.
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>> Episode 3 drops on Wednesday
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I've grown accustomed to hearing 'drop' instead of 'release' or 'publish' on Radio 6 Music, but I wasn't expecting you to use it, CGN!
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I don’t subscribe to Apple TV, Netflix or anything of that ilk, but having read two of the books I’m tempted …
Is Slow Horses now on Season 4 ?
Presumably I can catch up on any storylines starting with Season 1 ?
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>> Is Slow Horses now on Season 4 ?
>> Presumably I can catch up on any storylines starting with Season 1 ?
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Correct on both counts.
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Just to be contrary, we also enjoyed the Slow Horses books. When it appeared on Apple TV, we very much enjoyed episode one, sort of enjoyed episode two, and still haven’t got around to episode three, never mind the end of series one.
For us, it’s on the ok list, but there always seems to be something better to watch, so it’ll probably not get finished. We have Apple TV only because someone gave us a free sign in on their family account - I never found anything else worth watching at all and certainly wouldn’t actually pay for it.
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Yes we are occasional NetFlix users on a similar basis and we rarely find anything which appeals on there. Neither American comedy or drama really do it for us. We're running out of other stuff though. TiVo is down to 23% full. Still the UK winter season is imminent, that should throw up a few good series.
Btw we've tried streaming rather than allowing the TiVo to record. Streaming ITVX is peppered with repetitive ads. Luckily there isn't so much we watch on that either, and that which we do is now recorded so we can skip ads. Some stuff, like Slow Horses, I manage to find on torrents which are also ad-free.
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>> I manage to find on torrents which are also ad-free.
Can you explain how you do this (for a dimbo)
8o)
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Well it's all a bit dodgy really, though I think not quite illegal unless you share the files you download. Also requires a bit of tech nous to make it all hang together properly, and a VPN to conceal from prying eyes...
It's explained quite well here techslang.com/torrenting-what-is-it-and-how-does-it-work/#What-Is-a-Torrent?
My torrent server is a Raspberry Pi on which I run qBittorrent which I can access via browser from any machine on my network. There are some good setup instructions here pimylifeup.com/raspberry-pi-qbittorrent/.
Finding downloadable torrent files isn't so easy these days as a lot of ISPs have closed down the sites (given that hosting is probably illegal in most countries). And because of this fewer people are uploading stuff - but patience often pays off. But you still have to be careful that there is no undesirable payload (i.e. virus or worse) in the stuff - it's a slightly dangerous thing to do in that respect.
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Our approach for a no ad viewing experience is more old fashioned, but works really well for us. We sub to cinemaparadiso for dvd and Blu-ray rental.
Way wider choice than any streaming service. We have about 50 things on our list, and set them to be sent in random order, so each envelope through the door is a little surprise.
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By the time you go to all that palaver including a VPN subscription its surely cheaper to do the legal thing and just subscribe to Apple TV for a month and watch all four series.
I tend to aternate between Apple, Netflix etc. so I have only one subscription per month. I cancel as soon as I subscribe so I don't get inadvertent subscription renewals
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I have a VPN for normal everyday use, not for cloaking stuff, but that might be a side benefit.
In fact I now have two - one commercial one (NordVPN) which amongst other things does enable me to watch UK TV when abroad and also one on my Raspberry Pi at home which (also among other things) allows me to ne a local device on my home network when I'm away.
We've got Amazon prime and used to use one of the kids Netflix but nit any more.
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>> By the time you go to all that palaver
Mostly because its less palaver than switching subscriptions, not to mention considerably cheaper.
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Currently available on BBC iPlayer for a couple of weeks.
Should be compulsory viewing for all politicians everywhere.
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We started watching it last nite - up until the bomb dropped. Will finish it orf tonite 'when the wind blows'.
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>> Currently available on BBC iPlayer for a couple of weeks.
Saw it when first broadcast. Tough watch, dont need any more doom and gloom.
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>> Tough watch
Rumour has is that Ronald Regan saw it and turned down the anger in his speeches railing against the Soviet Union.
Also, Ted Turner, of the TV mogul, showed it on his channel in the USA - even though he was unable to get any sponsorship - he felt it so important.
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'showed it on his channel in the USA'
Ecky thump, I hope it had subtitles.
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Just binge watched this on ITVX. Although it’s about Leonard Cohen and Marianne it’s not necessary to be a Cohen fan. It’s a well-acted romance from an unknown (to me) cast. It’s well shot, relatively undemanding and looks fantastic, just the thing for autumn weekends.
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Not actually current TV but one from the past.
Conversation with a Scots colleague yesterday sent me to listen to Hamish McCunn's tone poem The Land of the Mountain and the Flood.
Google tells me it was the theme tune to Sutherland's Law, a seventies drama about a Procurator Fiscal starring Iain Sutherland which I remember watching at home in my teens.
DVD ordered and dispatched.
Last edited by: Bromptonaut on Thu 24 Oct 24 at 17:46
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...typo, Bromp?
It was Ian Cuthbertson.
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>> It was Ian Cuthbertson.
Indeed.
Not a typo so much as a mess up.
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I've had the CD since the 80s. Really good piece of evocative Scottish music.
Another good evocative piece, one of my faves is An Oxford Elegy by Vaughan-Williams, narrated by John Westbrook. A verbal picture of the Oxford area in Victorian days. There's a version on YouTube. A great listen for English language lovers !
Ted
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>> I've had the CD since the 80s. Really good piece of evocative Scottish music.
We were introduced to it in the late eighties when we were very early risers and it was played as a theme for Prayer for the Day on Radio 4 at 05:50.
Another tune in the same slot was The Banks of Green Willow by George Butterworth.
I'd never heard of Butterworth until a chap I worked with earlier in my life was a fan but picked up an interest. He died on the Somme and is named on the memorial at Theipval for those whose bodies were never found.
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It's 9 odd years, I think, since it was first shown on the BBC.
It's now available as a download for a short period.
Superb telling of Henry VIII, Thomas Cromwell and Anne Boleyn.
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The follow-up series is, I believe, imminent or already out there.
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Haven't checked to see if it is on iPlayer yet but it starts on BBC1 this Sunday at 21:00.
Thought I would re-watch "S1" to remind myself of the plot ;-)
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Just finished.
Best TV series in ages. Superb acting all around.
Even though you know the conclusion, you may find yourself hoping against it.
Such a shame that Hilary Mantel is no longer with us to write any more.
10/10
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Great TV but the book was a bit of a slog for me. I am not afraid of long books (Robert Harris Cicero Trilogy for example) but Wolf Hall …..meh.
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Fantastic costumes, superbly acted, great vicious acerbic dialogue, wonderful sets and locations (visited a few after the first series)
but - too long and ultimately tedious and I don't need to see timothy spall spitting and rolling his eyes more than once or twice. Little in the way of tension and surprise (after all we know the history) unlike say The Day of the Jackal which leaves you in suspense wanting more after every episode.
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I am not a fan of horror films, but really enjoyed 28 days later.
An the trailer for 28 years later is good, with Kipling's poem setting a frantic pace:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcvLKldPM08
Mrs Z definitely wont want to see it so I guess I will need to go with a mate.
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Thankfully, i'd recorded it so I could skip over the presenters.
Oliver was the high spot for me. Penn and Teller were extremely disappointing.
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Just finished Black Doves, a Netflix series with Keira Knightly. Also has that Sarah Lancashire and it didn't take me long to recognise Tracy Ullman ( - I'm usually no good on actors as I don't really "do" telly)
Probably one of the best dramas I've seen for a while, despite the abundance of bodies and blood spattered faces.
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I have found it disjointed and silly. Completely trampled to bits by "The Day of the Jackal" which was gripping, tight, and flowed really well lubricated by its equally body and blood spattering count.
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I presume these programmes come on after the watershed. SWM will watch anything involving murder, I sometimes wonder if she's gleaning hints ! Nine o'clock is my time to go and sort out the kitchen, lordy, I think I'm getting old, I even fill the kettle for the morning !. Then it's upstairs to the PC to watch some really interesting stuff. I'd rather watch Man Utd play........on reflection, Not !
I seem to have weaned myself off detective and murder mysteries. I suppose it's as a result of police service where killings are a lot more mundane and seedy than all the glamour on tvv I know it has to be to entertain but since when does a team of pathologists get involved in follow up investigating. In my day, you wouldn't get our pathologist, Dr Blench, out of his cosy mortuary for any money !
Oh, and why does PC Tinker in Coronation street never wear a cap or helmet ? Why does every detective Chief Inspector have to be a mixed race female with alcohol and relationship problems ? Apart from Vera !
Over to you FC ?
Ted
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>>SWM will watch anything involving murder, I sometimes wonder if she's gleaning hints !
Same here, Mrs Z loves any detective type drama. A couple of years ago she insisted we start "Silent Witness" from the first episode and binge them. I was traumatised by the end!
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Silent Witness earlier series were OK to good but have got more and more ludicrous as times gone on. SWMBO doesn't seem to notice it but were it not for her wanting to watch it, it wouldn't be on my Must-See list any more.
Mind you I can quite happily go for days without turning on the telly (as I often have done when on my solo trips etc). I'm not particularly proud of it, it's just a fact.
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My old woman likes the American forensics progs, in fact I got into them too and used to watch 'em while doing my exercises.
Quite amazing how they piece together all the evidence to catch the perps, even after many years have gorn by.
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>..I sometimes wonder if she's gleaning hints !
Panic when she starts reading the MO of a guy called Albert Fish.
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I can't plaice him at all.
Another gripe is that when she gets down in the morning, the first thing is to switch on the kitchen telly. Whatever is on will stay on while she sits, usually where she can't see it, and looks at her phone. I think she just wants background noise. To me, with my hearing aids, it just sounds like a staccato of noisy young women, arguing amongst themselves ! Leave it off 'til I regain my senses...please ! !
I can't complain, I don't want to end up with my naughty bits in a pan with eggs and hash browns.....not that I ever get offered eggs and hash browns !
Ted
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Having read some of the books, I must subscribe to either Apple TV or Amazon Prime to watch the 4 seasons to date.
I’ve never subscribed to any tv but given the reviews I shall
make an exception
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I likes me background noise too - it drowns out the tinnitus.
I've gorn mutton in one ear since this morgen due to a build up of ear wax.
I've shoved some Otex down there, but at least I can cock a deaf ear now when the ole women sez she wants something done.
:o}
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>> >I can't plaice him at all.
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>> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Fish
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Warning do not read the above unless you are of a strong disposition. It is sickening.
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Doh! Sorry Ted, didn't spot it until Zippy reposted it ;-(
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Niche television as it is, I'm enjoying this (largely because I've walked/climbed much of the featured landscape).
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00ljkgl/binnein-nam-beann-episode-6
Slow television, (6x25min episodes)with Scotland's mountain ranges covered from the air by helicopter.
Largely of interest if you've done any of the featured mountains, (OK, that would just be me, then) but still good for the scenery (Gaelic with subtitles).
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