It's always good to vent our irritation with Helen Lewis.
― the pinefox, Tuesday, 24 March 2020 11:33 (four years ago) link
I know this is BBC thread, but Sony Movies channels turn out to be an incredible find.
Sunday: 3:10 TO YUMAMonday: MOON followed by BLADE RUNNER 2049Wednesday: SATURDAY NIGHT & SUNDAY MORNING followed by A TASTE OF HONEY !!
I can't resist this!
― the pinefox, Tuesday, 24 March 2020 11:34 (four years ago) link
they used to have very long annoying ad breaks but i've noticed that seems to have calmed down a bit
― Two Gentlemen with the Rona (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 24 March 2020 11:39 (four years ago) link
Freeview thread might be better for this stuff
Freeview Boxes : Classic or Dud?
― koogs, Tuesday, 24 March 2020 12:34 (four years ago) link
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.
― calzino, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 15:13 (four years ago) link
they've been on there for ages i think, have they put some more up?
― Let's kill the Queen and be legends (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 15:46 (four years ago) link
Not BBC, but in a similar vein: http://meadesshrine.blogspot.com/p/shrine.html
― fetter, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 15:48 (four years ago) link
oh wow sweet
― Let's kill the Queen and be legends (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 15:49 (four years ago) link
I thought they'd just been put up again by that tweet. I ripped my own copies years ago.
― calzino, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 15:56 (four years ago) link
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.
― calzino, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 16:03 (four years ago) link
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
― koogs, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 16:12 (four years ago) link
yeah it was thanks to the archive i fully realised how full of shit Kenneth Clark was
― Let's kill the Queen and be legends (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 16:13 (four years ago) link
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)
― koogs, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 16:15 (four years ago) link
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?
― Tim, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 16:49 (four years ago) link
i find the A-Z (of an individual category) on the TV app marginally more wieldy but i don't know beyond that
― Let's kill the Queen and be legends (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 16:51 (four years ago) link
Problem with that is "Archive" is a category (unless there's something I'm not seeing) (which would not be unusual).
― Tim, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 17:03 (four years ago) link
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...
― koogs, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 17:12 (four years ago) link
better link - https://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/collections
― koogs, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 17:14 (four years ago) link
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
― nashwan, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 17:42 (four years ago) link
> 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.
― koogs, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 17:55 (four years ago) link
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.
― Tim, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 19:18 (four years ago) link
nairn’s Football Towns and Orient Express are both on youtube.
― Fizzles, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 19:57 (four years ago) link
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.
― Fizzles, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 19:59 (four years ago) link
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!
― calzino, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 23:49 (four years ago) link
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.
― the pinefox, Thursday, 26 March 2020 12:51 (four years ago) link
Football Pools Towns is good but Isle of Rust was the first Meades I ever saw and mb my fav bit of tv
― ogmor, Thursday, 26 March 2020 13:01 (four years ago) link
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.
― calzino, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 13:48 (four years ago) link
I heard two seconds of that Helen Lewis shit by accident the other night. Privatizing's too good for 'em.
― A rat done bit my sister Nell with Biden on the nom (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 13:50 (four years ago) link
Shriver probably sells quite a lot of novels.
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 13:55 (four years ago) link
Which Helen Lewis programme? I can't remember.
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 13:56 (four years ago) link
She doesn't Pinefox, she's a one hit wonder.
― calzino, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 13:58 (four years ago) link
Baggy MPs fucking diet book sells more than Shriver
― calzino, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 14:00 (four years ago) link
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.
― A rat done bit my sister Nell with Biden on the nom (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 14:00 (four years ago) link
They seem to have a lot of prerecorded Helen Lewis, god help us.
― calzino, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 14:01 (four years ago) link
After Shrivers racist appearance on qt last year there was a lot of stuff about her dwindling to nothing book sales on twitter
― calzino, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 14:06 (four years ago) link
2 and a quarter hour coronashow today, what the fuck is wrong with these people?
― A rat done bit my sister Nell with Biden on the nom (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 15:55 (four years ago) link
are they still not sending people to do the radio 4 morning show?
― koogs, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 16:24 (four years ago) link
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.
― Bridge Over Thorley Waters (Tom D.), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 16:26 (four years ago) link
These people think they're still living in the noughties, when everything's all Monkey Dust and Nighty Night and edgy.
― Bridge Over Thorley Waters (Tom D.), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 16:31 (four years ago) link
Edgy, the worst kind of y
― A rat done bit my sister Nell with Biden on the nom (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 16:34 (four years ago) link
lionel shriver is just some idiot that used to be on newsnight review all the time!
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 17:19 (four years ago) link
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
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 17:55 (four years ago) link
Bit generous describing her stuff as literary fiction.
― A rat done bit my sister Nell with Biden on the nom (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 17:58 (four years ago) link
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.
― calzino, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 19:27 (four years ago) link
Has he invited Rona to come to Athens?
― A rat done bit my sister Nell with Biden on the nom (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 19:52 (four years ago) link
I'm watching Lucy Worsley so the Beeb is forgiven for now.
― A rat done bit my sister Nell with Biden on the nom (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 19:53 (four years ago) link
LMAO. Stoya come to Athens, the means-tested defence of the status quo is happening. pic.twitter.com/93d5aguyQo— herd immunity for our time (@misslucyp) April 1, 2020
― calzino, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 19:54 (four years ago) link
cursed
― bam! Free bees! (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 20:04 (four years ago) link
How Adonis never made it to the last 16 of the world cup I'll never know
― A rat done bit my sister Nell with Biden on the nom (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 20:09 (four years ago) link
fuckin adonis
― Fizzles, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 20:15 (four years ago) link