If there was a channel that showed only speeded-up movies filmed from the cab of a train I would watch it. Here are two films from thirty years apart (1953 and 1983), screened side-by-side, and both shot from the cab of a London-Brighton train. Mesmerising.
First there was Speechification, which is a lot of excellent speech radio from around the world wrapped up in a podcast. Now there’s Watchification. We’re selecting the really good stuff from the BBC iPlayer, from the shows that appear on YouTube and - you never know - maybe some other TV too. We’ve rounded up over a dozen interesting people to make the selections and we’re always very keen to hear your suggestions for good stuff that we might have missed. As they say, watch this space.
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Great! I kept telling people about this – I guess it was 1983 (rather than just some abstract point in kid memory) when they showed it between boring adult programming and the CBBC broom cupboard.
That’s a bit clever
Wonder if they’ll do it again in 2013 – not long now.
I don’t see why not. Both films are credited to the BBC and if the BBC still exists in 2013 we should remind them to do it again! Now how am I going to remember?