Liberal England: The making of Peter Brook's Lord of the Flies (1963)
13.03.2026 14:52
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Liberal England: The making of Peter Brook's Lord of the Flies (1963)
"Nation was far from convinced by the scale of the undertaking. ‘If I was a producer on a show like that,’ he reflected later, ‘I don’t think I would ever commit myself to a three-month Dalek story without a lot of other stuff in it as well’"
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"A city where the bombsites are bright with flowers and lush with vegetation. A city of sudden unaccustomed vistas of Italianate churches. A city where the displaced sleep at night among the ruins"
@lordbonkers.bsky.social's superb essay on the bombsite movie.
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Tom Jones, his tan and white hair making him look like a photographic negative of Tom Jones.
Looking forward to seeing more of Mavic Chen.
Two missing episodes of The Daleks' Master Plan have been found! THIS IS NOT A DRILL!!! #DoctorWho
BBC News - Lost Doctor Who and the Daleks episodes discovered in 'ramshackle' collection - BBC News
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Tonight on the old iPlayer, THE AGE OF UNCERTAINTY (1977) by the great J.K. Galbraith.
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Ruth's next job could be in conversion therapy.
(she just doesn't know it yet)
Spectacular name
Britain's 'justice system' risks becoming a misnomer.👇
"On BBC One there is perma-misery-fest Eastenders, followed by The Great Sewing Bee Celebrity Special, and a repeat of last year’s Gavin & Stacey. ‘Barely enough to keep the mind alive,’ as Peter Cook once said"
@benfinlay74.bsky.social on Christmas 2025 v 1972
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"A city where the bombsites are bright with flowers and lush with vegetation. A city of sudden unaccustomed vistas of Italianate churches. A city where the displaced sleep at night among the ruins"
@lordbonkers.bsky.social's superb essay on the bombsite movie.
thelionandunicorn.com/2026/02/21/f...
Apropos the Bank of England, here's an old L&U post: "Up and down the nation the cry should go out: ‘A statue on every street corner!’"
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Photo of Reform Party rally featuring the slogan REFORM WILL FIX IT
Got a merch idea lads: REFORM FIXED IT FOR ME badges!
Funny lady Ruth is making me question my lifelong career as a gay.
"With its setting of a shop that doesn’t sell things, but finds lost items, mends them and displays them in the window so that their owners can reclaim them, Bagpuss chimed with the then alternative society’s view of a non-commercial, non-combative existence"👇
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This has reminded me of Polanski's assertion that racism "comes from poverty". He's the political leader we deserve in our short video-dominated, post-literate society
"In 1982 the veteran humorist Paul Jennings had proposed the introduction of a new word into the language, ‘Britic’, defined as: ‘A person of British birth who thinks that everything Britain does is wrong and talks about “the British” as though he were of some other nationality.’"
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'Television is a bit crap these days, isn’t it?'
In part one of a two part article, I look back to better days and the golden age of factual TV:
#television #article #history #culture #BBC #ITV
1)'The Rotters' Club' by Hatfield & the North was released 51 years ago this week. This is what I wrote about it in my top ten albums of 1975:
"The Rotters’ Club is the second of just two albums by Hatfield and the North, and to my ears, their best work...
#musicsky @jonathancoe.bsky.social
"Saying you were English used to be the greatest claim a man could make. Now when people say it, it’s like there’s something to be ashamed about."
The last episode of Endeavour was broadcast three years ago today.
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If the Tories or Reform were trying to restrict the right to trial by jury, I suspect my Bluesky feed would be full of histrionic cries of 'Fascism!'
"To put it bluntly, television is a bit crap these days, isn’t it?"
@benfinlay74.bsky.social on the glory years of factual TV.
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"In the Labour Party we spend all our time talking about getting rid of the leader and never do it."
Harold Wilson was born 110 years ago today.
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Liberal England: Jonathan Meades on the BBC on the BBC's own buildings
Tonight on YouTube, CALLAN 'The Richmond File: A Man Like Me' (1972).
youtu.be/Uow-_6s1f2Y
Toby Meres is given a cracking jibe at Hunter in this episode: "Don't applaud Sir — that way your left hand would know what your right hand was doing."
Tonight on YouTube, CALLAN 'The Richmond File: Do You Recognise the Woman?' (1972). T.P. McKenna is suavely sinister in this three-parter, and looks incredibly cool.
youtu.be/Njggs5su5XQ
Don't you rock me, daddy-o! It's time for trad.
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Mourning Has Broken - and with it comes @alwynturner.bsky.social's selection of the ninety best/worst
British album titles of the 1990s.
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"To accompany their panoply of arresting visual images, Tony Garnett and Roy Battersby wanted intelligent, experimental music. They sought advice from John Peel..."
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