What's currently good on the BBC iPlayer?
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1. Is the BBC going to hold itself to account for its role in falsifying the reporting of events during the miners strike? I won't hold my breath. The nerve of these people.Don't know if it's good or not, just the sight of the thumbnail on iPlayer has me spiralling into a weird kind of anticipatory anger.
Miners’ Strike: A Frontline Story - Forty years on from the Miners’ Strike, meet the men and women who lived on the front line
Many are speaking for the first time, and with extraordinary candour, to explore one of the most divisive conflicts in a generationwww.bbc.co.uk
2. I am hugely suspicious of the trend towards looking at historical events through the lens of "personal stories" and assorted mythologising bullshit. It's a way of escaping the raw exercise of power to hurt and destroy a whole class and it produces safe little artefacts that make people think they have engaged with the truth. Expect crap about eg miners' wives emerging from their oppression to get the education and jobs they were denied under the patriarchal blah blah.
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
This should be on iPlayer, since I watched it on TV last night. A performance of ridiculous, supernatural quality.
Monte
You can't say lavatory without saying tory.
Yep, and it's there to say, judging by the expiry date.
Silas Loom
Man with glasses
Just watched the first episode of Prisoner: Sofie Grabol from The Killing (sans jumper) playing a prison guard in a ludicrously grim nick. The levels of Shawshankery require some suspension of disbelief: it would be more plausible if set anywhere but Denmark. Watchable, though.
rubbershoes
not the only raver in the village
The Space Shuttle That Fell to Earth ( their capitalisation, not mine).
Decent 3 part documentary on the Columbia disaster . Notable for the interviews with the engineers who tried to raise the alarm up the chain of command whilst the shuttle was still in space, and the lack of interviews with the managers who decided not to listen to them
Decent 3 part documentary on the Columbia disaster . Notable for the interviews with the engineers who tried to raise the alarm up the chain of command whilst the shuttle was still in space, and the lack of interviews with the managers who decided not to listen to them
Chz
Stark Raving Sane
They've over dramatised that somewhat. The engineers were listened to. Including the bit where the engineers concluded there was bugger all they could do about it in space, and it wasn't possible to launch a rescue vehicle before food/air/whatever ran out.
They decided not to tell the crew about it for that reason. They weren't sure what was going to happen and there was nothing they could do about it anyhow.
They decided not to tell the crew about it for that reason. They weren't sure what was going to happen and there was nothing they could do about it anyhow.
Numbers
an ting!
I rewatched season 1 and binged season 2 the last cpl of days. I loved Francis Magee/Bren - a complete cunt but what a menace.
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
braindancer
not for long
Have to agree with this.
Really rated the first episode - very original and totally absorbing. I watched the second episode last night and was very disappointed - just got daft. I'll still watch the last one - but my expectations are low.....
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
I'm not quite sure which bit it was that made me
most. Was it when the Driscoll family, who had seen themselves being portrayed as leading lights of the rebellion, all walked into a pub undisguised and just sat there? Or was it when their secret rendezvous met them with the loud cry, in said pub, of "You must be the Driscoll's then." No, obviously, it was neither of those. It was when you first got a glimpse of the, I was initially sure I had misheard because surely no one would call a character, the Welshcatcher.Oh dear. Like you, we'll still watch the last part though.
danny la rouge
I have a cheese grater in the dishwasher.
I watched parts II and III thinking they were I and II, due to the iPlayer being set up in a weird way. It was very confusing, but I gather that was also the reaction from those who saw part I too.I'm not quite sure which bit it was that made me
Oh dear. Like you, we'll still watch the last part though.
The Welshcatcher was hilarious. I spat tea down my nose.
I thought it was truly dreadful . Typical a Brit drama. Dreadful production values, poor acting, plot holes and bearing in mind one of the themes was mass surveillance how the hell did the authorities not notice that bloody camp in episode three ? Constant arguing irrelevant family drama and of course the inevitable presence of a tormented female police officer in a high vis. vest.
AnnO'Neemus
Is so vanilla
Mrs Wilson is currently on Netflix.
Don't have it
Fozzie Bear
Well-Known Member
BBC One - Firebombers
Documentary series looking at an arson campaign in Wales targeting English-owned homes
Great two part documentary on Meibion Glyndŵr and their incendiary campaign against second homes in the 1980s.
Possibly not enjoyable if you’re a fan of estate agents.
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Kaka Tim
Half Arsed and Slapdash till I Die
Come home to real fire....BBC One - Firebombers
Documentary series looking at an arson campaign in Wales targeting English-owned homeswww.bbc.co.uk
Great two part documentary on Meibion Glyndŵr and their incendiary campaign against second homes in the 1980s.
Possibly not enjoyable if you’re a fan of estate agents.
danski
"vibey"
Just discovered these. Amazing
oryx
Sitting on the bok of the day
Prisoner
Four prison guards trigger a battle for survival that reaches far beyond the jail's walls.
www.bbc.co.uk
Just finished watching this and thought it was excellent - grim but gripping. All the leads, including Grabol, are really good, and the violence is hard to watch but plausible rather than gratuitous.
rubbershoes
not the only raver in the village
My friend's uncle was "sort of involved" with Meibion Glyndwr.
Bus Honeygun
This week the score draws are plentiful
Our cat is really enjoying Dipdap.
planetgeli
There's no future in England's dreaming
Heads up. From March 31st, This Town from the makers of Peaky Blinders plus music by Kae Tempest, apparently.
Edgy 80s Birmingham based, ska and 2-tone drama.
Filmed in Stoke. Mmm.
Edgy 80s Birmingham based, ska and 2-tone drama.
Filmed in Stoke. Mmm.
This is absolutely lovely
www.bbc.co.uk
The Last Bus
Tom, an elderly widower, takes a deeply nostalgic trip across the length of the UK.
www.bbc.co.uk
I watched this last night, she is great.
PR1Berske
Alligator in chains by the park gates.
The entire 1997 general election:
www.bbc.co.uk
Election 97
The BBC's 1997 general election night results coverage, presented by David Dimbleby
www.bbc.co.uk
Just tell us when the Portillo moment is.The entire 1997 general election:
Election 97
The BBC's 1997 general election night results coverage, presented by David Dimbleby
T & P
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The Tories/ Tory press are going to go mental about this and no mistakeThe entire 1997 general election:
Election 97
The BBC's 1997 general election night results coverage, presented by David Dimbleby
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