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Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story
“The story you are about to see really took place …only with less swearing and more nudity.” I’m being naughty, posting something that’s half way to expiring on iPlayer, but I only got a chance to watch this last night, and it’s a complete corker. So, run! run! to watch it in the next 3 [...]
Terry Jones’ Great Map Mystery
I can’t really think of anything to say about this one. It’s just a really interesting bit of pop history presented by super-jolly, always-interested Terry Jones (who comes from Colwyn Bay). Also, as far as I can tell, it only went out in Wales, so I’m doing good by spreading the word to foreigners. Here’s [...]
The Supersizers Go… Wartime
Food. History. Sue Perkins in 1940′s clothing, her legs painted with gravy browning and a neighbourhood dog chasing her down the street. Is there anything about this programme that’s not immediately likeable? Well perhaps: Giles Coren, after all, veers between tolerable and insufferable depending on how much meat he’s managed to cram into himself. Thankfully, [...]
Panorama: predictions from 1960
Wasn’t the world a scary place in 1960? This programme does what we’d all like to do: have a good dig through the BBC’s prodigious archive material. It centers around Panorama clips from 1960, with Richard Dimbleby and Robin Day presenting predictions about what the 60s were going to hold for the world. There’s a [...]
The Saint and the Hanged Man
I think this must be the state-of-the-art in contemporary feature making. A layered mix of animation, dramatisation, funky music, clever talking heads, whizzy video techniques and a fair amount of cheeky supposition. It’s all about the sanctification of a middle-ranking medieval bishop called Thomas Cantilupe and it involves the miraculous resurrection of a twice-hanged Welsh [...]
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