04Apr

Arena: Cool

posted by Chris Heathcote

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A masterful Arena, exploring cool jazz – but rather than taking the normal route of talking heads, here the music tells the story, with occasional narration, on-screen quotes from the musicians, clips from all sorts of places, even a brief Allen Ginsberg reading. There’s also wonderful original incidental music by George Taylor. Worth watching, even [...]

07Mar

Touring Britain – The Classic Motorist’s Way

posted by Chris Heathcote

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“It is the eye and the heart that are the surest guides” It seems Heathcotes have a thing for travel guides. I’ve been known to eulogise, and namesake-but-no-relation David Heathcote presents this series taking old travel guides as a starting point for a journey, in this programme the Shell travel guides from the 30s to [...]

21Feb

Michael Smith’s Drivetime

posted by Chris Heathcote

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“We shape our technologies, then they shape us.” After enjoying the repeats of Michael Smith’s Citizen Smith series, he’s been commissioned on another journey round the UK, this time focussing on cars, motoring and driving. Previous BBC4 seasons on buses, trains, public transport have provided much nostalgia for the typical BBC4 viewer, even sojourns into [...]

24Jan

Cowards

posted by Roo Reynolds

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This is the first episode of another brilliant comedy to make its merry way from Radio 4 to TV. It’s one I loved on the radio, and it makes the transition to telly incredibly well. Plenty of awkward, embarrassed silences and random but plausible strangeness. You might recognise Tim Key and Tom Basden (or rather, [...]

04Dec

Charlie Brooker’s Screenwipe

posted by Steve Bowbrick

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Brooker takes a week off from putting the boot into TV inanity to interview five top TV writers—the writers of shows like Doctor Who, Shameless, Hustle, The IT Crowd and Peep Show—about writing. How they got into it, how they get going in the morning, how they come up with characters and names and so [...]



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