The BBC

Watched the original of 310 on Criterion Channel this week, so good.

Re: movies, we’ve been watching criterion from the UK - you need a vpn to sign up but it doesn’t check your region once you’re streaming

(So you only need to use the vpn once)

I don't have a favourites list. Unfamiliar with how these things work. Have never found digital TVs very easy.

Agree with Chuck Tatum -- I think that the 1957 3:10 TO YUMA is tremendous and having watched the remake again last night, I now think that the original is probably better (I was unsure before).

R4 playing culture war against "wokeness" programming (presented by Helen Lewis) during the worst UK public health crisis in a century.

It's always good to vent our irritation with Helen Lewis.

I know this is BBC thread, but Sony Movies channels turn out to be an incredible find.

Sunday: 3:10 TO YUMA
Monday: MOON followed by BLADE RUNNER 2049
Wednesday: SATURDAY NIGHT & SUNDAY MORNING followed by A TASTE OF HONEY !!

I can't resist this!

they used to have very long annoying ad breaks but i've noticed that seems to have calmed down a bit

Freeview thread might be better for this stuff

Freeview Boxes : Classic or Dud?

All these Ian Nairn films are on iPlayer at the moment, fill yer boots https://t.co/ePm3qIQ3bo

— Gee (@BrokenBiros) March 24, 2020

could watch these a thousand times.

they've been on there for ages i think, have they put some more up?

Not BBC, but in a similar vein: http://meadesshrine.blogspot.com/p/shrine.html

oh wow sweet

I thought they'd just been put up again by that tweet. I ripped my own copies years ago.

I'd forgotten about Meadesshrine it's a great site, got most of them from the torrents but it's so nice to have them all in one place.

no, the nairns have been there a while. there's a lot of archive that's always available.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/categories/archive/featured

yeah it was thanks to the archive i fully realised how full of shit Kenneth Clark was

from there, this is very good:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00drs8y/monitor-pop-goes-the-easel

Ken Russell's film on the Young British Artists of the day pioneering the Pop Art movement features Peter Blake, Peter Phillips, Derek Boshier and Pauline Boty. (1962)

Thanks for sharing the link to the archive, koogs - is there any way of seeing what's been put up there without having to scroll through pages of everything in alphabetical order?

i find the A-Z (of an individual category) on the TV app marginally more wieldy but i don't know beyond that

Problem with that is "Archive" is a category (unless there's something I'm not seeing) (which would not be unusual).

some of the categories are subdivided, but it's not obvious

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/group/p025z4rn - abstract art

pick an episode of something you like and on the page for that programme there *might* be a sub-category at the bottom, by the credits link

there certainly used to be a plainer page with all the categories on it as a list but, er, progress...

better link - https://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/collections

Hadn't seen those pages before but the iPlayer Collections are good too - loved working chronologically through the series on London (albeit all picked by Simon Jenkins so you have to look at his hi-res face before each prog): https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/group/p00synd3?page=1

> Hadn't seen those pages before but the iPlayer Collections are good too

those archive/collections are the same thing, i think, they keep reorging / renaming / redesigning the pages. the iplayer pages also seem to have added what i'd call 'box sets' to the mix, more recent stuff made available again, not exactly 'archive'

finding anything on any streaming service always seems like a crapshoot to me, especially when using a tv-remote to navigate.

Thanks Koogs- that is better (though like you I would still like a list I could slice how I wanted... I blame Netflix). Now I’m hoping they can slap up the other 20-odd BBC things dear old Nairn did, which I thought was what the tweet up thread was promising.

Going to watch the pop art thing later, looks interesting.

nairn’s Football Towns and Orient Express are both on youtube.

when i’m out and about not so much these days i sometimes practice a bit of a nairn slopey/arhyrmic walk. it genuinely does seem to help appreciate spaces around me in a contemplative fashion tho suspect some of this is because it’s slower than my habitual too-fast-paced gait and also it seems to cant your head slightly upwards and away from the immediate direction in front of you.

Nairn hates Huddersfield so much and with so much focus you'd almost be tempted to think he grew up there and I don't think he was really impressed with the mushroom columns of the Queensgate indoor market! I'm not sure the ugly as fuck Pompidou-lite stylings of Halifax Building Society building aged that well either tbh!

I do not understand Fizzles' post about walking differently. It sounds as though he's trying to be like Beckett's Watt.

FOOTBALL TOWNS, this must surely be good.

Football Pools Towns is good but Isle of Rust was the first Meades I ever saw and mb my fav bit of tv

turned on R4 earlier and caught the absolutely awful Lionel Shriver reading from her new novel that nobody will buy just like her previous few novels that nobody bought. Why do the fucking beeb blow so much fucking smoke up this fraudulent nobody's arsehole? Well yeah the answer is ofc because she's a pig-shit ignorant right-wing bigot.

I heard two seconds of that Helen Lewis shit by accident the other night. Privatizing's too good for 'em.

Shriver probably sells quite a lot of novels.

Which Helen Lewis programme? I can't remember.

She doesn't Pinefox, she's a one hit wonder.

Baggy MPs fucking diet book sells more than Shriver

Helen Lewis had a Radio 4 show about why woke snowflakes are terrible and should be shot. Weird number of shows like that on BBC radio lately.

They seem to have a lot of prerecorded Helen Lewis, god help us.

After Shrivers racist appearance on qt last year there was a lot of stuff about her dwindling to nothing book sales on twitter

2 and a quarter hour coronashow today, what the fuck is wrong with these people?

are they still not sending people to do the radio 4 morning show?

Plotting a graph of Lionel Shriver's useless life, I would imagine the line representing book sales, plummeting downwards, at some point intersecting with the line representing calls from BBC producers, going in the opposite direction.

These people think they're still living in the noughties, when everything's all Monkey Dust and Nighty Night and edgy.

Edgy, the worst kind of y

lionel shriver is just some idiot that used to be on newsnight review all the time!

This was new to me, but interesting.

After the sad news that Lionel Shriver was up to her *antics* again, I decided to take a look at the book sales of my 3rd least favourite contrarian author.

And now I have the stats.

Hold me, I'm going in. There will be graphs... pic.twitter.com/iyxIYu2ndn

— Chris McCrudden (@cmccrudden) March 1, 2019

Bit generous describing her stuff as literary fiction.

lol, them be the brutal graphs of Shriver's shrinking relevance in the publishing world I was referring to Pinefox!

bloody great, tonight we've got the intellectual might of Applebaum and Mason discussing da Rona on R4.

Has he invited Rona to come to Athens?