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The Private Life of an Easter Masterpiece – BBC2 from mob61uk 1306 days old
I’ve thoroughly enjoyed this three part series shown over Easter, each programme dealing with an important painting which relates to the Easter story ...
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BBC Four World Cinema Awards 2006 from mob61uk 1387 days old
[ ... ] TV show, and so it is interesting to watch the mechanics of it all. How the floor manager has a big role to play in calmly ensuring everything ...
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Blackpool (the series) from mob61uk 1390 days old
I missed this BBC series when it first transmitted, but have managed to catch up with it on DVD. It’s a bit of a gem. It takes a little bit of getting ...
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Poliakoff at the NFT from mob61uk 1399 days old
Besides Potter, it is Poliakoff who has provided me with one of the most moving, profound, and spell-binding television experiences, in ‘Shooting The ...
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Jean Renoir from mob61uk 1404 days old
Last night I attended an interesting overview of Renoir’s career at the NFT, given by David Thompson as part of the Renoir season currently underway. One ...
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Harold Pinter - Nobel Prize Speech from mob61uk 1436 days old
Pinter's latest work of art - his Nobel Prize Speech broadcast. A picture of the playwright, bold and forceful, looks over the frail man himself, in ...
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Dennis Potter at London Weekend Television from mob61uk 1447 days old
These three TV plays have now been released on DVD for the first time. Blade on the Feather There are similarities here to Potter's 'Brimstone and ...
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Blue Remembered Hills from mob61uk 1450 days old
The irony of Dennis Potter's closing voiceover, reciting Houseman's poem, slices like a knife:- Into my heart an air that kills From ...
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Heimat 2 from mob61uk 1451 days old
It's been even better watching this the second time around ( http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/cinema/features/heimat.shtml ). The first Heimat, Edgar ...
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Bleak House from mob61uk 1462 days old
It's been a long time since I read Dickens' rather hefty novel, but the current BBC adaptation ( http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/bleakhouse/ ) is giving me ...
