Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Interviews & Discussion Formats you like or not.
What's your favourite TV or online Talkshow?
Four or Five guests with a host or chairperson such as Question Time with Fiona Bruce to keep'em in order?
Or maybe a fast-talking hard hitting moderator such as Mehdi Hassan with online guests.
If not, do you have your own favourites? And would you sum up why in say a few dozen words?
Or do you hate the whole idea of such shows and have an alternative idea or suggestion of talk/comment programmes which HoL members might like to sample?
Surely in the age of Youtube you recall seeing one or two which felt fresh? Not stale and stuck?
I have but my tastes can seem odd. So I invite other HoL members to start the flow of ideas.
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Permalink Reply by Gordon T
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In Our Time. A very wide range of cultural and social issues, a counterbalance to all the rolling 'fast food-style' news discussions.
1000+ episodes across 25+ years, all still available - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qykl
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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton
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Thanks, Gordon T.
I've occasionally listened to "In Our Time." But not until your welcome suggesstion have I been prompted to take an overview which showed what a stock of radio treasures are in its back catalogue. And of course there are so many differences of topic and historical period.
So maybe my finding BBC 'Question Time' very stale is because of the apparent restrictions. Every programme is required to have a fake balance of at least one Tory bore and a matching Labour dullness. Even the liveliest audience members allowed to speak are quickly cut short.
Time is a key factor of course. I enjoyed watching the historian William Dalrymple intervied by Ash Sarkar in Double Down News, about the history of India. They both had long enough to shine.Different and also showing the magic of a simple recorded conversation two elders: Ghada Karmi comparing her roots as a Palestinian girl in Jerusalem, with Avi Shlaim an Iraqi Jewish boy in Baghdad.
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You're missing a trick if you don't take a look at Channel 4's After Dark
Great guests and nothing was taboo, plus a free bar with which Oliver Reed got famously wellied
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/After_Dark_%28TV_programme%29?wprov=s...
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Very strange. . . I've never heard of 'After Dark' programme. I must have been spending my time very differently then.
I can't imagine enyone staying up to listen to Rhodes Boyson. Or indeed many of the others. And certainly not for three hours.
Are you sure that website isn't a clever April Fool spoof?
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If you're going to caveat your quest with having people you only like or agree with, it makes the entire thing pointless
After Dark was superb
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Permalink Reply by dubmill
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I agree about After Dark. I used to really like watching that. I liked that it was live, the slow pace and informal nature of it, and the range of guests they had on. It was quite restful to just let it wash over you late on a Friday or Saturday night (I can't remember which night it was on). I vaguely remember the edition with Christine Keeler. I don't remember who else was on that edition, though I see Wikipedia has a complete list of all the episodes and the guests on each one.
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Your comment is very fair and I apologise for doubting you.
For a long time I had a 9" black and white TV which I rarely watched and probably didn't have Channel 4.
Also I'd loathed headmaster figures since schooldays. I overturned this prejudice when I was sent as a school governor to a Tottenham Primary school and worked slongside a succession of inspiring women heads and teachers.
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Permalink Reply by Clive Carter
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The Daily Beast is one of my favourites ~
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