Greg Dyke on Nye Bevan
This isn’t actually the show I planned to put up. I wanted to link to a really marvelous feature called The NHS: a Difficult Beginning, which originally went out around the Sixtieth Anniversary earlier this year and was repeated on Wednesday. That programme, though, is unaccountably not available on iPlayer. Probably some kind of rights [...]
Blood & Guts: Into The Brain
Part one of a very promising-looking history of surgery that seems to share only its name with Roy Porter’s excellent short history of medicine, published in 2002. Lots of excellent close-up brain surgery…
Under Night Streets: BBC4
I haven’t seen enough pre-1960s british documentaries to say how widespread this might be, but the use of voiceover in Under Night Streets, a 1958 documentary about the Underground’s 800 night shift workers, to create a narrative over the pictures seems to be straight out of Billy Wilder’s 1950 Sunset Boulevard. Not only does our [...]
The Knowledge
Repeated on BBC4 as part of “Cab Night” and now nearly 30 years old ; I saw this when it was first shown on Thames in 1979. Everyone did. I think it appealed at the time because it played to my nerdy 13 year old fantasies of having to learn over 15,000 streets and thousands [...]
Black Power Salute
It’s hard to imagine an equivalent act or image nowadays so simple yet so powerful that would rival Olympic medal winners Tommie Smith and John Carlos’s gloved clenched fists, raised in support of the Black Panther movement during the Star Spangled Banner at the 1968 Mexico Olympics. The story of the lead up and aftermath [...]
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