Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
We are so lucky......
....... to have the BBC. An hour-long programme on Nietzsche about whom I knew nothing.
My world, my mind is just a little wider than it was this morning.
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Permalink Reply by StephenBln on
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Then why are we so lucky?
Of course you can watch most on your computer.. Not every station, but quite a few: https://www.filmon.com/tv/phoenix
ANd with a chromecast added on to your TV you can watch German or French in HD quality on your TV if you choose.. https://www.google.com/intl/de_de/chromecast/tv/How comes I can follow British stuff if I choose to? Or are you only here on your mobile ?
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Permalink Reply by Antoinette on
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I agree, John. I also watched an extraordinary programme last night quite by chance - Horizon - Why did I go mad? which was on BBC2 at 9pm last night http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08pltgy
This was a documentary about psychosis following three sufferers but also interviewing medical and scientific researchers. It showed a level of empathy and insight you just wouldn't see on the more commercial channels.
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I look forward to watching these programs. I have really enjoyed all their foreign language series especially The Bridge, Borgen, etc.
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Nietzsche's one time guru by proxy Martin Luther once allegedly complained, "If I fart in Wittenberg they smell it in Rome." We are so lucky to have HOL: if we fart on Wightman Road they simultaneously hear and smell it in Berlin. But John D merely emitted an afflatus of contentment and appreciation for one aspect of our public service which BBC4, and sometimes BBC2, do/es well. I watched the Nietzsche programme again last night and I also enjoyed the Freud one from BBC4's previous offering of the series. Thanks to Michael, I now realise there's a Marx one to catch up with. Like Charlotte, my Saturday nights would not be bearable without BBC4's purveying of Scandi darkness. May I say I'm looking forward to the return of 'Hinterland' next Saturday without implying that I think that either the BBC or all the Nordic channels are perfect in all that they do. Once upon a time Channel 4 was worth watching. Now, for informed views of the wider world, Al Jazeera provides some escape from the narrowing Brexitania of the coming month and years. But Steve, just because you escaped from Harringay all those years ago, don't feel you have to question our every little sigh of resignation to the darkness we still inhabit.
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Danke OAE .. das mache ich auch nicht.
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What I meant to say OAE was.. I was only passing because I'd commented on something railway based. I don't comment on every subject, but I have a dislike for 'best in the world' or 'be thankful' comments.
75% of people in the U.K. are poorer than the EU15 average and that makes me pretty angry. I have no time for government apologists.
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Permalink Reply by Chris Setz on
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I found the programs on Marx and Nietzsche to be like most TV, shallow - doesn't give anything like the whole picture and far too bound up with the 'personality' presenting. So-called 'gee-whiz' TV.
I too don't think much of the BBC but would benefit from a balanced perspective. I found Arte to be streets ahead when I watched it regularly, but can impressions be more objectifiably quantified?
If in fact, Auntie was never as good as she is cracked up to be (and has gone steadily downhill since outsourcing most content to the commercial sector), it'd be good to make people more generally aware of that, even if it encourages the UKippy 'better yesterday' aspiration that's about.
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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on
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I viewed them as 1 hour introductions to the subjects that gave pointers to further information Chris. Arte is excellent but has a very specific remit. The BBC has a much wider one (as part of its charter) so within that I think it manages to do quite well. I do agree about "the Beeb in the good old days". My, probably faulty, memory of it in the sixties was of lots of comedies with middle class chaps wearing cravats, the Black and White Minstrel Show and - well, The Good Old Days.
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You could review your memories of one of those - The Good Old Days is getting regular outings on BBC4 most Fridays. Not holding my breath for the Minstrels.
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Did you know that the Minstrels was one of the first programmes shown in colour - which has a certain irony.
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Thanks Michael - I find these 'factual' programs slanted and feel there ought to be a public health warning in front of them. As a viewer I feel I've been conditioned practically since birth to value what the BBC does out. The slogan:
bias-u-like
fits well.
Their Charter defines the main objective of the BBC as the promotion of six public purposes:
- Sustaining citizenship and civil society
- Promoting education and learning
- Stimulating creativity and cultural excellence
- Representing the UK, its nations, regions and communities
- Bringing the UK to the world and the world to the UK
- In promoting its other purposes, helping to deliver to the public the benefit of emerging communications technologies and services and, in addition, taking a leading role in the switchover to digital television.
This is balderdash - don't want to judge the BBC by the criteria that they themselves set, so we're faced with a comparison test I guess -how else can it be done?
Arte is an arts channel and I thought it better than the BBC's arts offer - if that's true, by how much and are all the other pies the BBC has plunged fat fingers into as easily eclipsed?
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Permalink Reply by JoeW on
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Thanks for posting this John, I enjoyed the one on Marx on catch-up last night. Really delighted to see my old SPGB professor again, although horrified to learn that that paragraph about "hunting in the morning and fishing in the afternoon" was actually a flight of Engels' bourgeois fantasy that should never have made it past the first draft!
Needless to say I have now torn up my CPB, RPGB, RCPGB and CPGB(M-L) membership cards.
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