The BBC Four Thread

FloatingVoter

Gods Holy Trousers. A timely reminder not to go kinging about in parts foreign nor otherwise be insulting to the memory of Alexander the Great.

Harry Palmr

9 PM Bollywood cinema, 90 minutes with everyones favourite Anglo Indian chappie - Sanjeev Bhaskar

brian_t

I see that BBC4 have released some details of their Autumn Programming.

Cassian Harrison announces raft of new titles for BBC Four

Dozen Wicked Words

brian_t wrote: »

I see that BBC4 have released some details of their Autumn Programming.

Cassian Harrison announces raft of new titles for BBC Four

Looking forward to Beck and the new series of The Bridge, surprised there was no mention of Hinterland coming back this autumn, though maybe it has to be shown on BBC Wales before BBC 4 (think I answered my own question there)

It would be a real shame if they ever moved BBC 4 online like they have threatened to do, such a great channel.

Nekarsulm

Beck was very good. Straight thriller / procedural as opposed to the more ceberal /angst type stories from the original books. Looking forward to the next episodes. Interesting to see they were not made by Yellow Bird productions. Also interesting to see tonight's episode was made four years ago.

Harry Palmr

The use of a compact cassette had me wondering how old these were!

Nekarsulm

Well the books were written in the early seventies, and I remember we got a similar cassette player in about 75. Sound quality was horrendous, but we knew no better! I have one I bought about 1983, I must dig it out tomorrow and see if it works! (I remember taping "free programming" from BBC1's "making the most of the micro" with a DIN lead and thinking I was sh1t hot, technology wise !

Harry Palmr

The Detectorists series 1 is being repeated on BBC Four from October 1st for those who missed it the first time. The best comedy of last year for my money.

brian_t

Harry Palmr wrote: »

The Detectorists series 1 is being repeated on BBC Four from October 1st for those who missed it the first time. The best comedy of last year for my money.

According to DigiGuide the repeats are starting on Thursday 24th Sept at 11pm (2 episodes each Thursday)

Harry Palmr

Yep you are correct someone on another forum obviously got it wrong by a week.

Harry Palmr

Excellent night on BBC Four tonight

8:00pm
Canals - The Making of a Nation

8:30pm Hive Minds
Season 1 Episode 11: Trivium v Lutrophiles

9.00 John Simpson: Stories from the Front Line
The BBC World Affairs Editor is joined by guests John Snow, Christiane Amanpour and Max Hastings to discuss the difficulties, moral ambiguities and challenges of the job of reporting from the frontline. A series of clips from conflicts in the Falklands, Bosnia, Iraq and Syria highlight some of the most impressive journalistic work of the past 50 years

10:00pm Wheeler on America
A look back at the classic series, from 1996, in which Charles Wheeler traces changes in US society since the liberal revolution of the 1960s

10:55pm Storyville Which Way Is the Front Line from Here?
Documentary profiling the work of award-winning British war photographer and film-maker Tim Hetherington, who spent his career in the epicentre of war zones and was killed during the Libyan civil war in 2011. The film weaves together footage of Hetherington at work, and features interviews with his family and colleagues to understand his compassion and intense curiosity for the human spirit during deadly conflicts

alaimacerc

How're people finding Hive Minds? It's not entirely free of entertainment value, but it does seem to be the most generic BBC4 quiz format imaginable. If they're not just blurring together in my mind, they've actually retreaded some of the very same contestants from Only Connect!

Skid X

Trailer for Series 2 of Detectorists.

I don't see an air date, but it can't be too far away

Harry Palmr

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Excellent night on BBC Four tonight


10:00pm Wheeler on America
A look back at the classic series, from 1996, in which Charles Wheeler traces changes in US society since the liberal revolution of the 1960s

Just a comment about this, the programme was the first part of Wheeler On America and by the end I was quietly cursing the fact they were only showing the one. Even though just 20 years has passed it did feel like tv from a different age - dense, thoughtful, opinionated from a position of knowledge.

brian_t

Skid X wrote: »

Trailer for Series 2 of Detectorists.

I don't see an air date, but it can't be too far away

It starts Thursday 29th Oct at 10pm according to DigiGuide.

Hotblack Desiato

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Just a comment about this, the programme was the first part of Wheeler On America and by the end I was quietly cursing the fact they were only showing the one. Even though just 20 years has passed it did feel like tv from a different age - dense, thoughtful, opinionated from a position of knowledge.

They did that too with the first episode of Carl Sagan's Cosmos a while back :mad: why tease us in this way?

I've tried to download the rest but some are only available on youtube with spanish dialogue and English subtitles!

Good memories of that show from (IIRC) Sunday afternoons on RTE2 30 years ago.

alaimacerc

brian_t wrote: »

It starts Thursday 29th Oct at 10pm according to DigiGuide.

Yay!

Now someone just needs to remind me to "series link" that come Thursday, when it'll show up in my EPG. And given how reliable my UPC -- sorry, "Virgin Media" box is (and my memory, come to that), likely every Thursday after that, too.

Deathwish4

brian_t wrote: »

It starts Thursday 29th Oct at 10pm according to DigiGuide.

Can't wait. Detectorists Series 1 was absolutely outstanding.

Harry Palmr

Bump!

Followed by a repeat of Brian Pern.

Oh and tonight two Bond related programmes both new. 8 pm until 10 pm

Harry Palmr

Lovely to have Detectorists back and then Brian Pern which I laughed at more the second time around I reckon.

Thinkingaboutit

I half don't want to read this thread and all the great programmes I missed.

Deathwish4

Detectorists was superb tonight.

patmac

Deathwish4 wrote: »

Detectorists was superb tonight.

It was, I love the 'Is that it?' endings, very subtle humour. Brian Pern was class as was the Michael Caine Bio afterwards, throw in the ads for 'The Bridge' Series 3 and it shows that it is truly the best TV station out there.

Nekarsulm

Yeah, shots of the bridge in the mist, a 911 and "the new Saga" whet the appetite all right!

I know it's on BBC2, but has anyone been watching "Cuffs"?

alaimacerc

Nekarsulm wrote: »

Yeah, shots of the bridge in the mist, a 911 and "the new Saga" whet the appetite all right!

I watched the first season of the France/UK version, and enough of the Scandie one to conclude they were very similar. I wonder if they still inter-operate enough to switch over!

I know it's on BBC2, but has anyone been watching "Cuffs"?

Is cuffs even an honorary BBC4 show? I've only seen the trailers, but I was thinking if anything, more of a BBC3 escapee.

brian_t

alaimacerc wrote: »

Nekarsulm wrote: »

I know it's on BBC2, but has anyone been watching "Cuffs"?

Is cuffs even an honorary BBC4 show? I've only seen the trailers, but I was thinking if anything, more of a BBC3 escapee.

It's actually a BBC1 show.

Nekarsulm

Anyone watching Quizeum on Four at the moment? My kind of quiz!

Harry Palmr

Not watched it, but I have recorded the Storyville film about an Elvis impersonator. Sounds intriguing.

Deathwish4

Deathwish4 wrote: »

Detectorists was superb tonight.

Detectorists was superb again last night. It's like the show was made for my humour.

Lance, Andy, Russell, Terry, Sheila, Huw. Brilliant, Brilliant characters.

The scene with Lance and the presents broke my heart.

Dozen Wicked Words

The Bridge is back tonight. Episodes one and two of the new series. Can't wait.

Harry Palmr

Indeed - also worth looking for is the 40th Anniversary of Arena this week which charts a day using Arena archive material.

brian_t

More Nordic drama coming next year in the form of 'Follow the Money' and 'Trapped'.

also more Beck and Hinterland.

http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2015-11-21/the-12-best-scandi-drama-treats-to-come#channel=fc9361c6c883b8&origin=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.radiotimes.com

Nekarsulm

Tonight, 8pm till 9.
"Digging for Ireland" an archaeology programme.

Harry Palmr

So then Simon and Garfunkel are actually

Peters and Lee

Deathwish4

Another cracking Episode of Detectorists. Spot on from start to finish.

Devasted there's only 1 episode left in the series

Luckily, there is a Christmas Special coming soon

"Mackenzie Crook and Toby Jones will be searching for festive items in a Christmas special of Detectorists later this year.
The critically-acclaimed BBC Four comedy will return for a six-part second series in late 2015, followed by a festive episode in December."

Nekarsulm

This is one programme where time flies. Hard to believe the half hour is gone when it ends.

Skid X

I am enjoying this repeat of the Huw Edwards doc about the Welsh community in Patagonia.

Hard to believe they have kept their language and culture alive for so long so far away from its roots.

Harry Palmr

and that's that until Christmas is the brooch the real deal or not?

Dan Chipowski

I was almost in tears last night. Lance's face!

Detectorists has been the best thing on television in years.

Skid X

This looks interesting, I haven't seen it before.

BBC Four is repeating the biopic Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett Story on Thursday 17 December 2015 at 10pm.

If you missed it first time around in 2012, or just fancy seeing it again, it’s worth catching – a high quality drama that’s mostly accurate and very well acted and written, with plenty of reminders of the genius that Ev brought to radio and television.

http://www.transdiffusion.org/2015/12/15/best-possible-taste

Hotblack Desiato

It's all done in the best possible taste. :pac:

It's a good programme for those who can remember the 80s - the young un's probably scratching their heads. But Kenny turned a nasty letter of admonishment from BBC hierarchy "...must be done in the best possible taste" into a catchphrase.. on the BBC. Genius

Alas poor Kenny, a genius taken from us much too soon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkqxagJglaI

brian_t

The final two episodes of The Bridge are on tonight.

After a short break for Christmas the second series (6 parts) of "The Young Montalbano" starts at 9:00pm on Saturday 2nd January.

And after that :-

brian_t

10:00pm on Wednesday 23rd December

Repeated :

02:30am on Thursday 24th December.

00:00am on Saturday 26th December.

Harry Palmr

Ah, nice to see Graham Garden pop up from about 1968

Poochie05

So did anyone catch the 2 hour sleigh ride film last night? A fixed camera on the back of a sleigh being pulled by reindeer above the arctic circle in Norway. Very little dialogue, just the sound of hooves on snow. Strangely hypnotic!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06t3psw

Alun

Poochie05 wrote: »

So did anyone catch the 2 hour sleigh ride film last night? A fixed camera on the back of a sleigh being pulled by reindeer above the arctic circle in Norway. Very little dialogue, just the sound of hooves on snow. Strangely hypnotic!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06t3psw

It's a whole genre called, rather appropriately, "Slow TV", and nrk, the Norwegian state broadcaster, seems to have pretty much invented it.

http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2013/oct/04/slow-tv-norwegian-movement-nrk

http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2015/apr/03/norway-nrk-slow-tv-relaxation

darkdubh

Loved the programme about the golden age of childrens TV.

Harry Palmr

Poochie05 wrote: »

So did anyone catch the 2 hour sleigh ride film last night? A fixed camera on the back of a sleigh being pulled by reindeer above the arctic circle in Norway. Very little dialogue, just the sound of hooves on snow. Strangely hypnotic!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06t3psw

I did, the ambient near silence is what makes these programmes, you just sort of drift into your own space and time while watching.

Arthur Daley

It is back on now for two hours

Harry Palmr

The Life of Rock with Brian Pern 10 PM tonight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbrZfNsEYJ8