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Title: Ian Hislop Goes off the Rails
Post by: Uncle Mort on October 01, 2008, 12:47:54 PM: BBC Four on Thursday (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7644630.stm) - Worth a look methinks.
Title: Re: Ian Hislop Goes off the Rails
Post by: Snoopy on October 01, 2008, 12:50:13 PM: Quote from: Uncle Mort on October 01, 2008, 12:47:54 PM
BBC Four on Thursday (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7644630.stm) - Worth a look methinks.

Indeed that looks worth watching.
Did you catch him on the radio with Matthew Parris yesterday talking about Hogarth. Very entertaining but then they are two very bright men.
Title: Re: Ian Hislop Goes off the Rails
Post by: Uncle Mort on October 01, 2008, 01:01:45 PM: Not really a radio man - maybe I should start.
Title: Re: Ian Hislop Goes off the Rails
Post by: Snoopy on October 01, 2008, 01:06:13 PM: Quote from: Uncle Mort on October 01, 2008, 01:01:45 PM
Not really a radio man - maybe I should start.

You can "Listen Again" via your PC http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/podcasts/nk/greatlives/
Title: Re: Ian Hislop Goes off the Rails
Post by: Bar Wench on October 01, 2008, 01:12:20 PM: I've just been following links off that. Ended up at disused tube stations and all sorts! Most interesting!
Title: Re: Ian Hislop Goes off the Rails
Post by: Uncle Mort on October 01, 2008, 01:16:45 PM: Quote from: Snoopy on October 01, 2008, 01:06:13 PM
Quote from: Uncle Mort on October 01, 2008, 01:01:45 PM
Not really a radio man - maybe I should start.

You can "Listen Again" via your PC http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/podcasts/nk/greatlives/

Ta ~ should be able transfer it to my MP3 player.
Title: Re: Ian Hislop Goes off the Rails
Post by: Pastis on October 01, 2008, 02:04:48 PM: Quote from: Snoopy on October 01, 2008, 01:06:13 PM
Quote from: Uncle Mort on October 01, 2008, 01:01:45 PM
Not really a radio man - maybe I should start.
You can "Listen Again" via your PC http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/podcasts/nk/greatlives/

Listening to that right now. Thank you Snoops happy088
Title: Re: Ian Hislop Goes off the Rails
Post by: Snoopy on October 01, 2008, 02:07:16 PM: My pleasure. I shan't spoil it for you but I did like the point Hislop makes about Private Eye Covers.
Title: Re: Ian Hislop Goes off the Rails
Post by: Pastis on October 01, 2008, 02:13:01 PM: Ahhh ... I think that was they clip they used to promote the programme ;D

I'll wait and ~~see~~ hear.
Title: Re: Ian Hislop Goes off the Rails
Post by: Barman on October 02, 2008, 08:52:37 AM: Quote from: Uncle Mort on October 01, 2008, 12:47:54 PM
BBC Four on Thursday (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7644630.stm) - Worth a look methinks.
Recorder set - thanks Uncle... happy088
Title: Re: Ian Hislop Goes off the Rails
Post by: Snoopy on October 02, 2008, 02:12:23 PM: I'll bump this up to remind you that it is

Tonight
Title: Re: Ian Hislop Goes off the Rails
Post by: Barman on October 02, 2008, 03:21:41 PM: Quote from: Snoopy on October 02, 2008, 02:12:23 PM
I'll bump this up to remind you that it is

Tonight
It'll be on at 11pm here so I have set my Sky+ box and will watch it on the morrow thank you hound... whistle:
Title: Re: Ian Hislop Goes off the Rails
Post by: Bar Wench on October 02, 2008, 03:40:46 PM: Why? Is 11pm past your bedtime? point: Are you one of those crumblies that goes to bed at 9 and is up at 6? point:
Title: Re: Ian Hislop Goes off the Rails
Post by: Nick on October 02, 2008, 03:53:57 PM: PMT noooo:
Title: Re: Ian Hislop Goes off the Rails
Post by: Barman on October 02, 2008, 03:55:00 PM: Quote from: Bar Wench on October 02, 2008, 03:40:46 PM
Why? Is 11pm past your bedtime? point: Are you one of those crumblies that goes to bed at 9 and is up at 6? point:
Problema...?
Title: Re: Ian Hislop Goes off the Rails
Post by: Nick on October 02, 2008, 03:57:44 PM: PMT. ANd, of course, the babby cloud9:
Title: Re: Ian Hislop Goes off the Rails
Post by: Bar Wench on October 03, 2008, 07:41:25 AM: Quote from: Barman on October 02, 2008, 03:55:00 PM
Quote from: Bar Wench on October 02, 2008, 03:40:46 PM
Why? Is 11pm past your bedtime? point: Are you one of those crumblies that goes to bed at 9 and is up at 6? point:
Problema...?

Only crumblies have that sort of schedule. Balding crumblies especially! point:
Title: Re: Ian Hislop Goes off the Rails
Post by: Uncle Mort on October 03, 2008, 10:29:52 AM: Interesting programme ~ worth watching.

Between Beeching and Ernest Marples the railways never stood a chance Even though nobody would deny that some pruning and reorganisation was needed these two and Marples especially had their own agenda and nothing was going to change their minds.

Hislop has almost become a "national treasure"
Title: Re: Ian Hislop Goes off the Rails
Post by: Snoopy on October 03, 2008, 10:40:43 AM: I enjoyed it immensely. Hislop is a very talented man.
Title: Re: Ian Hislop Goes off the Rails
Post by: Barman on October 03, 2008, 10:58:59 AM: I shall watch it this evening...

Before I go to bed at about 8pm with my cocoa of course... ::)
Title: Re: Ian Hislop Goes off the Rails
Post by: TG on October 03, 2008, 02:31:46 PM: What struck me about it is how little things have changed. People from the 1930's etc complaining about exactly the things we do now regarding ~~cakes~~* trains etc.

*Never let a good running joke pause for breath says I. cloud9:
Title: Re: Ian Hislop Goes off the Rails
Post by: Snoopy on October 03, 2008, 02:37:00 PM: The prog that followed was an old (1996) "Great Railway Journeys" with Victoria Wood. She went from Crewe to Crewe via Scotland. Much emphasis on Cakes, tea rooms etc............. I smiled.
Title: Re: Ian Hislop Goes off the Rails
Post by: Nick on October 03, 2008, 02:38:52 PM: cussing: cussing: cussing:
Title: Re: Ian Hislop Goes off the Rails
Post by: Barman on October 07, 2008, 05:15:01 AM: I watched it last night - excellent! cloud9:

What a total, utter waste of infrastructure... noooo: