I needed cheering up, and this is my go to music video - if this doesn't get your feet tapping then there is something wrong with you
Fabulous band!!
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You may not agree with the politics, but this is genius.
Stephen Hendry has started a youtube channel of interviews with other players while they have a frame. Mind numbingly boring for anyone who doesn't like Snooker but for a fan it's the best youtube channel in the world. Other players are relaxed with Stephen so they have good discussions about life on and off the table.
Have come across a copy, on YouTube, of the 1970 BBC recording of the Ben Travers face, Rookery Nook, starring Arthur Lowe, Richard Briers & Irene Handl. Classic stuff!
(Rookery Nook was previously filmed as part of the Laughter from the Whitehall series with Brian Rix.)
This find prompted me to search for other farces. There are a couple of others in this series from 1970 and there are quite a few local amateur productions who filmed their performance and uploaded it (eg Run for your Wife, Caught in the Net, Funny Money, Boeing Boeing, Dry Rot, Charley's Aunt, It Runs in the Family, Season's Greetings and even One Man Two Guvnors). That's me settled in my comfy chair for the next few months then. Will save me travelling all over the south of England trying to catch the all too occasional farce on stage.
You want to download them (and save to DVD?) before they disappear for some reason - i.e. rights issue
Quote: Hercules Grytpype Thynne @ 2nd September 2024, 10:56 PMYou want to download them (and save to DVD?) before they disappear for some reason - i.e. rights issue
That's definitely a good idea. However, you're talking to someone who can't even manage a screenshot...
Quote: Billy Bunter @ 3rd September 2024, 9:46 AMThat's definitely a good idea. However, you're talking to someone who can't even manage a screenshot...
Give me the links you want and I'll download them, then we can sort out what to do next later, but at least you will know they are safely stored presently - I have quite often found items I've wanted have gone off the radar with summat like "withdrawn owing to rights issue", when obviously someone has noticed and got the 'ump.
NOW, I download anything I fancy as soon as I see it, as now I have mega storage with my new PC and FOUR hard drives of 1Tb!
Quote: Hercules Grytpype Thynne @ 3rd September 2024, 10:27 AMGive me the links you want and I'll download them, then we can sort out what to do next later, but at least you will know they are safely stored presently - I have quite often found items I've wanted have gone off the radar with summat like "withdrawn owing to rights issue", when obviously someone has noticed and got the 'ump.
NOW, I download anything I fancy as soon as I see it, as now I have mega storage with my new PC and FOUR hard drives of 1Tb!
Thanks for the offer - very kind - but I have found quite a number (I have written down a list of 13 to be going on with and may well find more as I watch them - for instance after watching Rookery Nook last night I found an entire series of Ben Travers farces on IMDB and then discovered another two of those were available on YouTube).
Probably best if I just take my chance and watch them as quickly as possible before they are taken down.
Well, the offers always there if you change your mind, and I think I may download some of them for myself, so can you give me your list please?
Are there any with Brian Rix in?
No, none with Brian Rix. Only a 7 minute clip of him introducing Rookery Nook followed by an excerpt of the actual play (with Joan Sanderson) in which he comes in right at the end of those 7 minutes: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xgHOYAN-Eg
Two programmes from the same series ("Ben Travers' Farces") as the Arthur Lowe/Richard Briers/Irene Handl Rookery Nook (per my above post) are A Cuckoo in the Nest www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTwQlz_nIzA&t=228s and She Follows Me About www.youtube.com/watch?v=91-XzEaVa7s&t=40s Both with Arthur Lowe; the former also with Richard Briers.
Other ones on my list, which you should be able to find via the search facility on YouTube (if not let me know), are: Run For Your Life and its follow-up Caught in the Net, Funny Money, Boeing Boeing, Dry Rot, Charley's Aunt, It Runs in the Family and Season's Greetings (Alan Ayckbourn) - always good to watch around Christmas. Then there's the more recent One Man Two Guvnors. Most, if not all, of these seem to be by local amateur societies. But none the worse for that.
And one that I've found that I have not previously heard of is: Unnecessary Farce which seems to be being performed in Canada.
Thank you - lots to look forward to there! 😊
The 1996 BBC production of Alan Ayckbourn's play Season's Greetings starring Barbara Flynn, Geoffrey Palmer, Peter Vaughan & Nicky Henson.
A recommended watch especially at this time of year: