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God Save the Beeb

Posted: Sun Aug 28, 2011 6:54 pm
by David Johnson
Watched Page 8 on Beeb 2 at 9pm tonight.

It should be on the Iplayer for awhile.

Written and directed by the great playwright, David Hare.

Brilliant!

Jimbo, you'll love it!

Cheers
D

Re: God Save the Beeb

Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2011 9:50 am
by number 6
Looks like they are going to cut back on bbc4,easily the best channel on tv. Sad.

Re: God Save the Beeb

Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2011 10:12 am
by Arginald Valleywater
Excellent drama and so much talent. Nighy, Gambon and the utterly gorgeous Rachel Weiz. Wonder if Hare had a certain Scottish public schooled person in mind when writing the PM part??

Arginald

Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2011 10:43 am
by David Johnson
I think you could well be right.

It does seem to have gone very quiet about the stories of Labour government/security forces complicity in torture of terror suspects.

Cheers
D

PS And as for Rachel Weisz...... lovely, lovely!

Re: God Save the Beeb

Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2011 5:08 am
by nikonman
I also watched "Page 8"

It's the type of drama that the BBC excels at.

I also watched another excellent BBC film last night in" The Field of Blood"
It's in two parts but should be on the Iplayer.

I only hope that BBC4 is not going to be axed, I find it excellent for specialist music programmes
Maybe a few emails to the BBC might save it.