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Post by Richard Marple on Jul 13, 2022 21:02:05 GMT
25/05/83 might exist as an off-air recording as I heard Mute Records had a policy of recording programmes featuring their artists.
Edit: this is briefly mentioned up thread.
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Post by Richard Marple on Jul 11, 2022 20:57:53 GMT
I've still got some tapes of the Radio 1 Chart show I made in 1986-7 where I just left the tape running & recorded all the links.
I digitised them a few years ago.
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Post by Richard Marple on Jul 8, 2022 20:54:33 GMT
Been working my way through the Season 22 set. Fantastic new interviews my Matthew Sweet - and loads of other fab extras. I reached Timelash last night and (controversially…), quite enjoyed it with the new special effects! Been a loooooong time since I’d watched it, so really couldn’t remember too much of it, but very enjoyable watch despite it being generally not well thought of. The Behind the Sofa segments are so much fun as always! But blimey - going back to my opening comment, the interview Nicola Bryant was a real eye opener for me. Very sad she had to go through all that, but bless her, she just shrugs it off as that was just how it was in those days. I know she had to spend much of the making of The Mark Of The Rani with a neck brace under her costume after picking up an injury.
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Post by Richard Marple on Jun 27, 2022 21:03:14 GMT
I think one of the early ideas for what was to become Eastenders was going to be set in a new town.
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Post by Richard Marple on Jun 16, 2022 20:48:21 GMT
how did this one survive? And why didn't the three other episodes? Probably misfiled at the ABC. There’s an amusing theory someone might have thought it was the cricket! Yes I've heard that suggestion before!
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Post by Richard Marple on Jun 11, 2022 20:58:05 GMT
There was an idea that blood groups effected personality, something that was quickly forgotten as a pseudoscience outside of the Far East. Anyone for phrenology? The late evolutionary-biologist Stephen Jay Gould wrote an excellent book titled “The Mismeasure of Man” about the dangers of trying to pigeon-hole/stereotype things like people, intelligence and other traits by mis-applied, or outright dodgy, science. He was an excellent scientist and a humorous and engaging writer. Highly recommended reading to this day. That sounds interesting, phrenology hasn't been taken seriously for a long time.
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Post by Richard Marple on Jun 11, 2022 13:07:01 GMT
John, Nice piece. It is far more common than thought. A lot of erroneous beliefs about various genetic conditions (many holdovers from the 40s-70s) still persist to this day. You want to be really freaked out? Google “chimeric DNA.” We probably ALL have it and it puts a lot of genetic testing, especially in criminal cases, into doubt. There was an idea that blood groups effected personality, something that was quickly forgotten as a pseudoscience outside of the Far East.
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Post by Richard Marple on Jun 2, 2022 12:37:33 GMT
I do like the in context elements, like some off-air recordings with the continuity & adverts intact.
Same with street scenes with then common cars you wouldn't see these days outside of car shows.
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Post by Richard Marple on Jun 1, 2022 20:59:47 GMT
I heard that the The Forsyte Saga was shown on Soviet TV. Often material that could be twisted into an anti-capitalist message were shown behind the Iron Curtain.
This backfired when Dallas was shown in Romania & JR became a popular character.
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Post by Richard Marple on May 31, 2022 20:25:13 GMT
I don't think any original manuscripts of Shakespeare's plays still exist, though fortunately printing was around by his time, though that's no guarantee of preservation.
Some late 18th century novels that influenced Jayne Austen's works were thought to be lost, but literature experts eventually managed to track down copies & get them reprinted.
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Post by Richard Marple on May 27, 2022 21:09:57 GMT
I'm not happy to hear this, even if I was normally watching the classic Top Of The Pops on iPlayer, but I was recording the Story Of a particular year & the clip shows to my Hard Drive Recorder.
Hopefully some BBC4 material will be shown on BBC2.
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Post by Richard Marple on May 19, 2022 21:01:42 GMT
I used to correspond with many TBS members 1999-2007 through Meldrum's Home Page, before I got too busy with life. Since then I've found them on Facebook especially Chris Bowden-Smith (aka Kif).
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Post by Richard Marple on May 17, 2022 20:35:01 GMT
Good to hear as he's normally portrayed as quite stoic, except when getting stressed over not being able to give speeches in public.
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Post by Richard Marple on May 13, 2022 20:40:31 GMT
The Time Tunnel & the Quantum Leap Accelerator didn't make the list.
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Post by Richard Marple on May 10, 2022 20:27:00 GMT
They seem to take so long to make a Dr.Who series these days and then about 10 episodes later they are exhausted. I think the original Star Trek they use to knock an episode out in about 7 days or less, and original Dr,Who was about 60 mins in the studio I think. Certainly in the last season of the original Star Trek series they were struggling to come up with new ideas for stories, and combined with a reduced budget meant lots of scenes of running through the Enterprise's corridors to pad out stories.
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