What's currently good on the BBC iPlayer?

[kittyP]

Frankenstein: How To Make A Monster

Absolutely amazing, had me in tears.

"In BAC Beatbox Academy’s hit show, six talented performers interpret Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein from their own perspective as young people growing up in 21st-century Britain. "

 

[Mrs Miggins]

kalidarkone moonsi til Boudicca

Harlots series 2 and 3 on the iPlayer now!!

 

[kalidarkone]

kalidarkone moonsi til Boudicca

Harlots series 2 and 3 on the iPlayer now!!

Cheers im halfway through series 2 but having a break because as much as it is brilliant it is heavy.....

 

[hash tag]

Quality & nostalgia...there are one or two classic play for today on there.

 

[oryx]

Quality & nostalgia...there are one or two classic play for today on there.

Ooo, I'm going to check those out.

(outs self as old enough to remember Play For Today)

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Enjoyed Roadkill (all episodes of this four parter on iplayer, and started on BBC last night).

I enjoyed it well enough. It's preposterous of course, but there are some good lines, particularly for the Prime Minister - 'We lock people up. We're famous for it. It's what we do.'

Normally I think these things go on too long, but this one's ending felt rushed, and some of the storylines weren't really followed through that well - the slum landlord one, for instance.

 

[Boudicca]

kalidarkone moonsi til Boudicca

Harlots series 2 and 3 on the iPlayer now!!

I'm recording it and watching it weekly, eeking it out!

 

[Mrs Miggins]

I enjoyed Roadkill very much. Helen McCrory was quite magnificent.

I agree that the ending felt rushed but it feels like there could well be a second series....

 

[belboid]

David Hare doesn’t do second series’. I thought they’d been unable to film various parts and were hoping we could fill in the gaps for ourselves. It was okay but not a patch on his earlier work.

 

[Elpenor]

Enjoying so far the first episode of Industry, a Lena Denham penned drama about some new graduates at a thinly veiled Goldman Sachs clone. It’s a bit trashy but keeping me amused anyway.

Reminds me a little of the agonising 3 months I spent working in a city law firm earlier this year.

 

[8115]

Life is ok to pass the time.

But

Spoiler: Annoying plot point

The lecturer ends up sleeping with his student and there's no acknowledgement of the fact that I don't think you're allowed to do that any more, like, it's a sackable offence. And he's supposed to be mr moral. A small detail but it's very annoying.

 

[killer b]

I watched the first episode of Industry which was pretty hateful - I won't be bothering with anymore of it. It wasn't as hateful as Roadkill though which was laughably bad. Amazed anyone liked it tbh.

 

[Hollis]

Berlin 45 is superb - if history is your thing..

 

[ska invita]

this isnt a terrible watch BBC Scotland - Scotland - Contains Strong Language
A documentary about swearing in Scotland!

Schooled in Fife, coming of age in a rock ’n’ roll band, then finding her forte was directing temperamental actors, Cora Bissett is no stranger to theatrical Scottish swearing. So who better to present a celebration of Caledonian cursing?

This documentary sees Cora sing, swear and scrutinise why Scotland swears so well. Cora begins with the first hurdle – how does one discuss swear words on the BBC? Aunty Beeb is the institution that has been historically priggish about language - always bleeping words and apologising for those that slipped through. So Cora runs a list past BBC Scotland’s head of editorial standards to see what she can get away with.

She then joins a sociolinguistics class at Glasgow University to understand why swearing offends – are the words the problem, the context, the speakers or the meaning? Next up is a visit to the Scottish National Library in Edinburgh to see William Dunbar’s epic poem The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedie, which contains the first recorded use of the F-word.

Cora takes a bleep-and-you’ll-miss-it tour of swearing in the past three centuries, from the Reformation to the early days of Scottish broadcasting, up to more recent times, where she reveals how comedian Billy Connolly got around the censors with his concert LPs. Pastor Jack Glass labelled Billy ‘manure mouth’, but folk loved Billy's comedy and his albums were hugely successful.

When James Kelman won the Booker prize in 1994, his novel had over 4,000 F-words. We re-examine the controversy and reaction of the literary establishment in London, who called Kelman a ‘literary savage’.

In more recent times, social media has become the stage for Scottish swearing, and at last a linguist can analyse everyday speech. It turns out that the majority of swear words are not used in an insulting context but are just part of the salty way we speak.

 

[planetgeli]

Tonight BBC1 9pm.

BBC One - Small Axe, Series 1, Mangrove

The true story of the Mangrove restaurant, a hub of community activism during the 1970s.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[girasol]

Enjoying so far the first episode of Industry, a Lena Denham penned drama about some new graduates at a thinly veiled Goldman Sachs clone. It’s a bit trashy but keeping me amused anyway.

Reminds me a little of the agonising 3 months I spent working in a city law firm earlier this year.

Watched i yesterday. Glad it's only one episode, otherwise I'd have kept watching and wasted my afternoon!

 

[stavros]

On C4, Extreme Combat: The Dancer and the Fighter, where an anti-violence dancer inculcates himself into the world of MMA. Predictable in many ways, but with some really interesting stories.

 

[Part 2]

The story of Pepe the frog from nerdy stoner comic book to alt right hate symbol.

Storyville - Pepe the Frog: Feels Good Man

Pepe the Frog started life in 2005 as a cute cartoon character in an online comic. Today, he is known as an international hate symbol after being hijacked by the alt-right.

www.bbc.co.uk

Also 5 episodes of Play for Today.

Play for Today

Landmark productions from some of the UK's greatest creative talents, as first seen in the 1970s and 1980s - part of the BBC's rich archive of classic drama.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[sojourner]

Tonight BBC1 9pm.

BBC One - Small Axe, Series 1, Mangrove

The true story of the Mangrove restaurant, a hub of community activism during the 1970s.

www.bbc.co.uk

Watched last night. Excellent!

 

[killer b]

There's a film on atm called A Simple Favour which is a delight, you should all watch it - an very twisty black comedy / whodunnit starring Anna Kendrick from Pitch Perfect who is fab in it.

 

[RubyToogood]

I watched four episodes of Harlots in a row on the strength of this thread. It's fun, although it is essentially the plot of Pose lifted wholesale as far as I can see.

 

[sojourner]

There's a film on atm called A Simple Favour which is a delight, you should all watch it - an very twisty black comedy / whodunnit starring Anna Kendrick from Pitch Perfect who is fab in it.

Just watched it. Haha, excellent

 

[Mrs Miggins]

I watched four episodes of Harlots in a row on the strength of this thread. It's fun, although it is essentially the plot of Pose lifted wholesale as far as I can see.

Harlots came first

 

[sojourner]

The Trump Show. You forget sometimes just how much of a cunt he's been.

Lockdown 1.0.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

What we do in the shadows film
Also spotted the second series of Ghosts just recently.

 

[8115]

Out of her head with Sara Pascoe is pretty good. It won't work for you if you don't like Sara Pascoe.

 

[stavros]

Out of her head with Sara Pascoe is pretty good. It won't work for you if you don't like Sara Pascoe.

It gets better after the first episode, and Juliet Stevenson pretty much steals the show.

 

[belboid]

Storyville continues to be excellent and the latest should appeal to at least one other board member - LynnDoyleCooper

the story of the only unsolved case of air piracy in us history. It’s fascinating.

 

[LDC]

Storyville continues to be excellent and the latest should appeal to at least one other board member - LynnDoyleCooper

the story of the only unsolved case of air piracy in us history. It’s fascinating.

Yup! Watched it. What did you think belboid ? I thought it was an interesting ending when it steered away from the predictable trying to work out who it was.

But.... IMO it wasn't Suspect 4 (the copycat), and I thought Suspect 1 was highly unlikely as well. That younger bloke (her 'memory man') who befriended her has pushed the old woman into creating a story around it to deal with the fact her ex-husband had clearly been dodgy and lied to her in other ways. He was very creepy too, he was taking advantage of her vulnerability I think.

Barbara and then the Lynn Doyle Cooper (obviously...) that was an uncle of Marla were the most likely candidates by far I thought. Marla passed a polygraph and she has some fairly convincing stories around it. Both seem to have had the capability (pilots and parachuting) as well, although apparently the FBI thought he wasn't that experienced as a parachutist. Maybe Barbara needed the money for her gender re-assignment surgery (shades of a Dog Day Afternoon)? I'd have thought given that she'd have been an easy one to rule in or out as well.

I'd put a bit of money on it being none of them though, and it actually being some unidentified person who then died in the jump, maybe by landing into water, and then that explains the money recovered years later washed ashore.

 

[belboid]

Yup! Watched it. What did you think belboid ? I thought it was an interesting ending when it steered away from the predictable trying to work out who it was.

But.... IMO it wasn't Suspect 4 (the copycat), and I thought Suspect 1 was highly unlikely as well. That younger bloke (her 'memory man') who befriended her has pushed the old woman into creating a story around it to deal with the fact her ex-husband had clearly been dodgy and lied to her in other ways. He was very creepy too, he was taking advantage of her vulnerability I think.

Barbara and then the Lynn Doyle Cooper (obviously...) that was an uncle of Marla were the most likely candidates by far I thought. Marla passed a polygraph and she has some fairly convincing stories around it. Both seem to have had the capability (pilots and parachuting) as well, although apparently the FBI thought he wasn't that experienced as a parachutist. Maybe Barbara needed the money for her gender re-assignment surgery (shades of a Dog Day Afternoon)? I'd have thought given that she'd have been an easy one to rule in or out as well.

I'd put a bit of money on it being none of them though, and it actually being some unidentified person who then died in the jump, maybe by landing into water, and then that explains the money recovered years later washed ashore.

Yeah, that last part was the most interesting - why do these things still intrigue us so? Because we want to believe in this harm free but very risky way that someone stuck it to the man.

I’m with you on the suspects (as portrayed) - the youngster was dodgy af and I just didn’t believe her - making up a ‘nice’ story to cover for him being a complete shit. The copycat, I’ll have to double check the bit about his alibis, but this made him sound more plausible than I’d previously considered. Still too old and too experienced (he’d want a helmet).

I’d love it to be Barbara for the reasons you say - how can you not think about Dog Day Afternoon? But I don’t think it is. The namesake is the most likely of those shown, she is very believable and it pretty much ties it all together pretty well. William Smith is also plausible. Tho I thought that about Walter Reca till I read a bit more about him.

I don’t see how that money got there like that if s/he didn’t survive. Wrong layer, flow paths, blah blah.

But probably I just want to believe.