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Post by Deleted on Jun 10, 2013 9:14:17 GMT -5
Good afternoon to you all! To all those who survived the weekend, what a weekend it turned out to be. Congratulations to all! When television was introduced, many people thought that television would eventually replace radio as the broadcasting medium of choice. The Golden Age of Radio (1930-60) was arguably superseded by the Golden Age of Television (1960-90), although I would add that radio has undergone a remarkable renaissance over more recent years. I personally doubt that the Golden Age of the Internet has even begun, if it ever will, but I thought that it might be worth taking a more critical look at what actually is on the (idiot) box, not only on the BBC and in Britain, but all around the world. I have an acquaintance who always asks me, "Wot's on tele?", so I thought that this would be a good title for this particular thread. Tonight, as it happens, is the final episode of ' The Fall', which I commend to everyone reading ' The Third'. BBC Two (television) - The Fall - 21:00 (BST) on Monday 10 June 2013Personally, I rather like all broadcasting media, although I tend to use them at different times and in different ways. I am more likely to listen to radio in the mornings, for example, and watch television in the evenings. Of course, online this afternoon, I am happy enough to experience radio, television and the internet according to circumstances, although rarely all simultaneously. You, too?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2013 1:19:04 GMT -5
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Post by Gerard on Jun 11, 2013 7:03:28 GMT -5
Have you seen Endeavour Morse kleines c?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2013 7:18:49 GMT -5
Good afternoon, Gerard. I trust that all is well with you this flaming June. If I may nevertheless address your question directly: Have you seen Endeavour Morse kleines c? I have indeed. Of all the ' Morse' spinoffs, ' Endeavour' is definitely my favourite (8/10). ITV Player - EndeavourMuch as they tried, ' Lewis' (5/10) was ultimately something of a disappointment. In a brilliant evocation of the 'sixties, BBC News reports that Shaun Evans and Roger Allam will reprise their roles in a second series of the show: BBC News - Endeavour gets second series on ITV
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2013 7:11:12 GMT -5
So wot's on tele tonight? Well, the BBC television coverage of the Proms has been rather better than usual in 2013, and tonight (19:30 BST on Friday 23 August 2013), Clemency Burton-Hill introduces violinist Nigel Kennedy, who returns to the Proms to give his distinctive version of Vivaldi's Four Seasons, the work he recorded to great acclaim 25 years ago. The Daily Telegraph - Proms 2013: Vivaldi – The Four Seasons, review - Nigel Kennedy and members of Palestinian Strings turned Vivaldi’s Four Seasons into a groovy magical mystery tour, says Ivan Hewett.Joined by the Palestine Strings from the Edward Said Music Conservatory, Kennedy also adds improvisation between each concerto with members of his own Orchestra of Life. BBC Four (television) - Proms on Four: Friday Night at the Proms - Nigel KennedyHere is part of Spring on YouTube: YouTube - Nigel Kennedy plays Spring from Vivaldi's The Four SeasonsThese days, I never seem able to manage to attend that many Proms in person, so I probably see more on television than live. Of course, I probably hear the vast majority on BBC Radio 3, too, and I don't actually think that one medium is necessarily any better than any other. Cheers, all (Friday lunch)!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2013 8:12:08 GMT -5
my play about george bernard shaw is on bbc 4 next year
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2013 6:07:33 GMT -5
Congratulations, Jason! Let us know when your play is on television, and we shall record it. On BBC Four (television), I also commend Michael Wood's ' King Alfred and the Anglo Saxons' to everyone reading ' The Third'. BBC Four (television) - King Alfred and the Anglo SaxonsWriting in ' FT Weekend', Joe Moran reports on the fall and rise of the TV critic: whatever happened to television criticism? When the BBC’s high-fidelity television service began in November 1936, the Daily Telegraph’s newly appointed television critic L Marsland Gander was unimpressed. He complained that too much of the schedule – all two hours a day of it – was filled with dreary lantern lectures on radio transmitter valves or the new arterial road system. “I find that next Saturday a Mr J T Baily is to demonstrate on the television screen how to repair a broken window,” he wrote. “Probably at some future time, when we have television all day long, it will be legitimate to cater for a minority of potential window repairers. Out of two hours, however, the allocation of 30 minutes to such a subject seems disproportionate.” Other prewar television critics, though, were more forgiving. “It has seldom been possible to watch the progress of the ball itself,” conceded one reviewer of the first broadcast from Wimbledon in June 1937. “But the strokes and the movements about the court have all been so clearly visible that the absence of the ball has hardly seemed to trouble the viewer.” Joe concludes thus: Curiously, the small screen has never really taken over from the big screen, nor even radio. I rather like watching some television, Jason. You, too? Amazon - Armchair Nation: An intimate history of Britain in front of the TV
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2013 2:07:56 GMT -5
I saw hoax on iplayer yesterday, nice film.
Great man Howard Hughes, genius !
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Post by Gerard on Aug 30, 2013 0:13:55 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2013 4:26:51 GMT -5
Good morning, once again, to you all! I trust that all is well with all of you today! So wot's on tele? BBC Two (television) - The Story of the JewsThe story of the Jewish experience begins 3,000 years ago with the emergence of a tribal people in a contested land and their extraordinary book, the Hebrew Bible, a chronicle of their stormy relationship with a faceless, formless, jealous God. It was loyalty to this 'God of Words' that defined the distinct identity of the ancient Jews and preserved it despite all that history could throw their way - war, invasion, deportation, enslavement, exile and assimilation. The story unfolds with a dazzling cast of historical characters: Sigmund Freud dying in exile in London; Victorian evangelicals and explorers following 'in the footsteps' of Moses; Jewish mercenaries living, prospering and intermarrying in the pagan land of Egypt; Messianic Jews dreaming of the Apocalypse; and a Jewish historian, Josephus, who witnessed first-hand the moment when the apocalypse finally came and the Romans destroyed the Jewish High Temple in Jerusalem. BBC iPlayer - The Story of the Jews - In the BeginningWriting in ' FT Weekend', Simon Schama announces that now it can be told: historian Simon Schama on why he has finally been able to write ‘The Story of the Jews’. Has it been a wilderness in which Simon has been wandering for 40 years, like the Children of Israel taking the scenic route to the Promised Land? No, it hasn’t. But all the same it feels like a destination, with the emphasis on “destined”, or beshert, as one says in Yiddish. The Yom Kippur war, which began on October 6 1973 with a bold, fierce Egyptian campaign back over the Suez Canal, undid any notions of Israeli invincibility that might have been fostered by the Six-Day War six years earlier. The sobering shock registered itself in all sorts of unanticipated ways. The archaeology of the Bible lands – which, after the Six-Day War, had some people hoping they might find David’s royal buildings or Solomon’s temple – took a radically sceptical turn. Another inevitability was undone: that of the mostly secular, socialist, decidedly unmessianic Labour Zionism as the perpetual government of Israel. In 1977 Menachem Begin, founder of the centre-right party Likud, was elected the first non-Labour prime minister, and a deep faultline opened up that has never been closed. Even before the first Palestinian intifada in 1987, there was much agonising over how best to bring peace without compromising security. Added to this dilemma was the question of what to do about the occupied territories, how to absorb the facts of Palestinian history into the Jewish story. There was, at least, no continuing the head-in-the-sand fiction that Palestinian nationalism was some sort of spurious invention. Simon concludes thus: I commend ' The Story of the Jews' to everyone reading ' The Third'! I propose some toast: to Israel, the Middle East and the rest of the world! Three cheers from kleines c and the gang (whatever you are drinking)! Amazon - The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words (1000 BCE - 1492)
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2013 4:28:38 GMT -5
In future wars, one will press a button to launch thousands of cruise missiles and then see what happened, the automation of war is interesting.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2013 6:37:42 GMT -5
How can you be so sure, Jason? Perhaps the nature of war has changed profoundly in the third millennium (AD/CE). The war on terror, for example, is quite unlike anything we have seen before, although I suspect that it has been something of a catastrophe for the West, at least so far! And what of cyberwars and the existential threat to humanity of biological weapons of mass destruction? As you already know, Jason, kleines c is known not only for his side-steps, but also for his googlies. As for the Middle East, when in the last ten thousand years of human civilisation has there ever been anything approaching stability in the region? You are better off looking to the Garden of England, Jason. As for Israel and Judaism, how about a leap of faith? Simon Schama explores the bright, hopeful moment when Enlightenment thinkers and revolutionary armies brought ghetto walls crashing down - allowing Jews to weave their wisdom, creativity and energies into the very fabric of modern life in Europe. One of the most of fruitful branches of this Jewish renaissance was in music and the stellar careers of Giacomo Meyerbeer and Felix Mendelssohn established the enduring tradition for Jewish musical prodigies. However, the remarkably successful integration of Jewish talent into the mainstream of European culture and commerce stirred up the ghosts of ancient prejudice, decked out in the new clothes of romantic nationalism and the pseudo-science of anti-semitism. The road to the hell of the Holocaust was paved by the diatribes of Richard Wagner, while the trial of Alfred Dreyfus led Theodor Herzl to conclude that without a homeland of their own, Jews would never be free of the millennia-old persecution. BBC Two (television) - The Story of the Jews - A Leap of FaithI commend a leap of faith to the first, the second, and everyone reading ' The Third' this weekend, too! Three cheers from kleines c and the gang (Saturday brunch)! FT - Breakfast with the FT: Mark Rylance
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Post by Deleted on Sept 22, 2013 2:12:07 GMT -5
Good morning to everyone reading ' The Third'! I trust that you all had a good summer and/or winter, and that you are enjoying autumn and/or spring. Today is the equinox, so night and day are both around twelve hours long, unless you happen to be near a Pole! There is, as usual, much to watch on television, not only in the United Kingdom (UK), but all over the world. On Channel 4 (television), Kevin McCloud returns with a new Man Made challenge. This time he's attempting to build his own beach getaway on the English coast, testing a basic hypothesis - is simple better? And is creating better than consuming? Kevin moves his entire shed to the sublime Somerset Jurassic coast. This stunning location brings fresh adventures for him as he transforms his beloved cabin into the beach home of his dreams while using locally available resources and other people's junk. Kevin uncovers inventive building materials in remarkable places and experiments with novel off-grid energy sources - all so that he can sit out on his porch as the sun goes down, listen to the sound of the crashing waves and sip a cocktail featuring his own home-made rum. Kevin salvages the oak ribs from a shipwrecked fishing boat to build a curvaceous, gravity-defying clifftop deck on which he can spend the summer al fresco. To light his seaside retreat, Kevin taps into an unusual energy supply residing in the waves, in the form of fish oil. And in a madcap dash to the local pub, Kevin hits the high seas with his Man Friday, Will Trickett, on a raft made from inflated sheepskin balloons. But between them and the perfect pint are the strong currents of the Bristol Channel. Kevin then builds a sun lounge for his beach hut, his own hammock to lie in and some lobster traps made out of old shopping trolleys to go fishing with. Kevin sets about doubling the floor space by building a beautiful, glistening sun lounge out of recycled windows culled from lorries and aeroplanes, coming up with a crafty design that floats the windows in mid air. Kevin also wants his own hammock to lie in and uses a massive anchor to build a giant-sized hammock that rotates, allowing him to chase the sun across the sky at the turn of a wheel. In search of more junk he can recycle, Kevin takes a dirty dive into London's oldest dock and discovers a haul of old shopping trolleys which he re-purposes into lobster pots. Channel 4 (television) - 20:00 (BST) Sunday 22 September 2013 - Kevin McCloud's ManMade HomeMeanwhile, Countryfile goes to Devon earlier in the evening! Ellie Harrison and Matt Baker are in Devon, where Ellie gets to witness a very special homecoming. She meets Joey - the lifelike horse puppet that features in the successful stage play, War Horse. Joey has come to Iddelsleigh - the small village that inspired the story - and Ellie is there to greet him. Ellie then heads to North Devon to find out how beavers are being used to help manage the last of the region's rare culm grassland. Just a few miles away, Matt is deep in the woods at the start of a massive multi-million pound programme to regenerate some of the country's last tracts of pristine ancient woodland. Wildlife cameraman Richard Taylor Jones shows us the stars moving across the heavens with some amazing 'starlapse' photography. Tom Heap asks whether the number of domestic carts in the UK is posing a threat to our wildlife. And down on Adam's farm it may be harvest time, but there are still animals to be looked after. So Adam has a seasonal stock take. BBC One (television) - 19:00 (BST) on Sunday 22 September 2013 - Countryfile - DevonAnd later on Sunday evening, Simon Schama plunges us into the lost world of the shtetl, the Jewish towns and villages sewn across the hinterlands of Eastern Europe which became the seedbed of a uniquely Jewish culture. Shtetl culture would make its mark on the modern world, from the revolutionary politics of the Soviet Union to the mass culture of Tin Pan Alley and Hollywood. It was also the birthplaces of Hasidism, the most visible, iconic and, arguably, most misunderstood expression of Jewish faith and fervour. This episode takes us from the forests of Lithuania, where Simon's own family logged wood and fought wolves, to the boulevards of Odessa, where shtetl kids argued the merits of revolutionary socialism over Zionism. From the Ukrainian city of Uman, where today thousands of the Hasidim chant and sing over the tomb of the wonder-working Rabbi Nachman, to the streets of Manhattan's lower east side, where the sons of shtetl immigrants wrote the American songbook. We return, with grim inevitability, to Eastern Europe in 1940 where the genocidal mechanisms of the 'final solution' were beginning to grind the shtetl world into dust and ash. BBC Two (television) - 21:00 (BST) on Sunday 22 September 2013 - The Story of the Jews - Over the RainbowBetter still, Sydney, join us all at the Barbican promptly at 10:30 (BST) today, Sunday 22 September 2013. BBC - The Radio 3 Blog - BBC Symphony Orchestra - Total Immersion in The Rite of Spring I propose some toast: to the rite of spring, the rite of autumn and all of you! Three cheers from kleines c and the gang (Sunday morning breakfast coffee)! The Third - Calendar - Total Immersion: The Rite of Spring 1913 (10:30) - Sunday 22 September 2013
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2013 0:50:41 GMT -5
Good morning to everyone reading ' The Third'! I trust that all is well with all of you today! On BBC Four and ABC1, Edmund Capon explores how, from the 1960s onwards, Australia and its art went global. Transformed into a migrant nation, Australia's dependence on Britain and Europe ended and artists and nation alike turned their attention to America and then Asia. And it was the world's most ancient art form, indigenous art from the heart of the continent, that would become modern Australia's instantly recognisable calling card. BBC Four (television) - The Art of Australia - Beyond AustraliaWriting in ' The Sydney Morning Herald', Debbie Cuthbertson reviews master strokes that set the artistic landscape. The first episode, Strangers In A Strange Land, chronicles the first European artists to depict the Australian landscape through art, such as Joseph Lycett, whose 1825 book Views in Australia Capon suggests must have seemed "like postcards from an alien world." It moves on to the likes of John Glover and Eugene Von Guerard, through to the Heidelberg School of Impressionists' Tom Roberts and Arthur Streeton, and is punctuated with appearances by contemporary artists such as Shaun Gladwell and Ben Quilty. Episode two, Coming of Age, examines the impact of the two world wars and industrialisation on Australian art and introduces the greats of Sidney Nolan, Arthur Boyd and Russell Drysdale. Debbie concludes thus: Out of interest, Sydney, what do you make of Australian art?
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