Tag: Documentary film
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RC 341: How To Survive A Plague Part 1: It Couldn’t Happen Here
February is LGBTQ* History month in the UK, and with the recent TV series ‘It’s A Sin’ it seemed time to post this musical podcast series about the last pandemic, the HIV/AIDS ‘plague’. I started this last April during the first lockdown as I could see parallels between what I lived through in the ’80s…
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Mogwai scores Atomic
Mogwai have scored the soundtrack to a documentary ‘Atomic – Living In Dread And Promise’ by Mark Cousins about atomic energy and nuclear weapons, and you can see the trailer above. It’s part of a series commememorating the 70th anniverary of Hiroshima. Looks and sounds amazing, and I’m sure it will be eye-opening for those…
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Everybody’s doing the twist (even pop artists)
I saw clips off the 1962 film Pop Goes The Easel aeons ago, but never watched the full BBC Monitor documentary by a young Ken Russell until now. It featured an equally young looking Peter Blake, Pauline Boty, Derek Boshier and Peter Phillips. What I love about this, and the clip I saw many moons…
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London on film
I’m on a local history kick at the moment, so watched the London on Film series from 2012, recently repeated. Love The Suburbs and East End ones, and West End for a view into am older Soho, long gone…funny to hear Jeffrey Bernard complain about advertising executives and film people spoiling the place, because they…