What's currently good on the BBC iPlayer?

[Boudicca]

Watched the last episode of Gentleman Jack last night. I wasn't sure about it to start with but I grew to really love it.

Pretty much all of the actors in it are excellent but special mentions for Amelia Bullimore and Gemma Whelan. Suranne Jones is of course always wonderful.

It gave superlative frock as well! Absolutely superlative!

Yup. loved the frocking.

I think Suranne had an excellent stab at it, but she is just too good looking really.

 

[Treacle Toes]

Documentary film-maker Sophie Fiennes follows Grace Jones behind the scenes in the recording studio, backstage and at home with her extended family in Jamaica. Featuring live performances by Jones.

BBC Two - Grace Jones - Bloodlight and Bami

I really enjoyed this. Stylish and insightful documentary.
I know loads more about Grace now and was surprised by what I didn't know IYSWIM.

Well worth a watch...she's great!

 

[Part 2]

Minding The Gap, a documentary about three skateboarder friends' transitioning to adulthood and dealing with the damage inflicted by their troubled childhoods. Saw this at the cinema earlier this year and can thoroughly recommend it.

Cheers for the heads up. I've been recommending to friends since I saw it earlier this year but none have had chance to see it.

 

[stavros]

They're showing the comeback mini-series of Vic & Bob's Big Night Out on Beeb2 on a Thursday, and all four episodes are already on the iplayer.

My highlight from the first one is Tom Cruise, the actor.

 

[brogdale]

I've surprised myself by enjoying the BBC's 'Chasing the moon' documentaries. More context, politics and 'culture' than I'd expected, and it's good to revisit a moment that I can only dimly recall as a kid watching b&w telly.

 

[gosub]

Mortimer & Whitehouse : Gone fishing

 

[stavros]

Mortimer & Whitehouse : Gone fishing

Any news on whether they might do another series of that? I challenge them to find a situation that Bob Mortimer can't make funny.

 

[Orang Utan]

Any news on whether they might do another series of that? I challenge them to find a situation that Bob Mortimer can't make funny.

2 August

 

[Argonia]

The Thick of it - BBC iPlayer - The Thick of It - Series 1: Episode 1

 

[Part 2]

John Cooper Clarke on desert island discs

BBC Radio 4 - Desert Island Discs, John Cooper Clarke, poet

 

[ffsear]

Not Iplayer but really enjoying this...

Catch-22 - All 4

 

[stavros]

It's just a 14 minute pilot on BBC3 currently, but Muzlamic is worth a watch with a few good laughs.

 

[MsHopper]

Watched the last episode of Gentleman Jack last night. I wasn't sure about it to start with but I grew to really love it.

Pretty much all of the actors in it are excellent but special mentions for Amelia Bullimore and Gemma Whelan. Suranne Jones is of course always wonderful.

It gave superlative frock as well! Absolutely superlative!

Watched gentleman jack over the past couple of days - thought it was great. Really good actors and Suranne Jones was brilliant. Its still on iplayer for a week or so so recommend watching it

 

[stavros]

How to Break into the Elite, with Amol Rajan exploring the ingrained class prejudice in post graduate recruitment.

 

[Part 2]

Jeremy Deller documentary on Acid House...Everybody in the Place

BBC Four - Everybody in the Place: an Incomplete History of Britain 1984-1992

 

[cupid_stunt]

Jeremy Deller documentary on Acid House...Everybody in the Place

BBC Four - Everybody in the Place: an Incomplete History of Britain 1984-1992

Thanks for posting that, good documentary.

 

[sojourner]

Not Iplayer but really enjoying this...

Catch-22 - All 4

We watched that. Beautifully put together, a real labour of love, and a cracking story. I never did get round to reading the book so not sure how faithful it is, but really enjoyed this ffsear

Jeremy Deller documentary on Acid House...Everybody in the Place

BBC Four - Everybody in the Place: an Incomplete History of Britain 1984-1992

Just fantastic, loved it.

 

[Humberto]

Serengeti. Nature doc featuring animals that inhabit the Serengeti. 10/10.

 

[Threshers_Flail]

Stations of the Cross

 

[sojourner]

Stations of the Cross

Watched that aaaages ago - excellent.

 

[D'wards]

Mandy - short film by Diane Morgan- well worth a watch

Comedy Shorts, Mandy: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p07gy83t via @bbciplayer

 

[fucthest8]

I needed a palate cleanser from Chernobyl and The Virtues and have worked my way very quickly through the sitcom Mum. It's the gentlest of gentle comedies about a recently widowed woman and her family, but often very moving, and the two central performances from Lesley Manville and Peter Mullan are pitch perfect.

Sorry, liking and quoting a really old post but I bloody loved this show and so nice to see Peter Mullan playing the romantic lead (sort of) for a change!

 

[trabuquera]

The Octopus In My House - nerdy cephalopod expert builds relationship with one kept in a large tank in his sitting room for a year. Unexpectedly touching and full of deep questions, pretty pictures and real science.

BBC Two - Natural World, 2019-2020, The Octopus in My House

 

[marshall]

is this the right place to say how great Atlanta is?

 

[stavros]

This looks like it'd be worth more than a two minute clip.

 

[D'wards]

The Rap Game.

Kind of a grime The Voice, where the contestants are pre selected

 

[stavros]

The first episode of this, looking into a racially-tinted killing in America and the associated cultures, was on last night, and was excellent. Part two is this evening on BBC2.

 

[stavros]

Ronny Chieng: International Student is pretty good, based on the first episode. Whilst there's quite a lot of Aussie and eastern Pacific cultural references, it also has some bits which obviously transfer to the UK, e.g. Bullingdon-esque cunts.

 

[D'wards]

BBC iPlayer - Better Things

Better things - brilliant sitcom I think from Louis CK, although its completely female led.

Housewives favourite Nigel Havers turned up in the latest ep though.

I throughly enjoyed it, thought it was a fantastic series. The actress who plays Frankie is really good too. I can see success in her future

 

[mwgdrwg]

Any recommendations for things I can download to watch while on a long-haul flight? (I assume iPlayer on my phone will work without wi-fi?)

I have a few episodes of Killing Eve downloaded so far.