documentary
Vladimir Ashkenazy: The Vital Juices are Russian
No question about it: the best programme classified ‘music’ on iPlayer at the moment: a lovely 1968 documentary about pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy. The young Ashkenazy’s evidently not your stereotypical classical soloist: not wild-eyed, tempestuous or mercurial and not an egomaniac, despite his international fame. He’s modest, curious, humane, passionate. The kind of person you’d like [...]
Panorama: Obama and the Pitbull: An American Tale
This is really remarkable TV. Self-confident, imaginative, visually fascinating. An example of what you get when you apply the BBC’s stock of extraordinary talent and insight (and all those connections) to a really important story. Matt Frei, the BBC’s top man in the USA, presents a useful survey of the strangeness and drama of the [...]
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 [...]
Thames Shipwrecks
The start of a very good looking series on BBC2. One of those bits of history that makes living in London all the more interesting. And if you don’t live in London, what’s not to love about shipwreck stories anyway?
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…
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