What's on the TV today?

BBC2 On now Frontline Medicine in Afghanistan traumatic but interesting

 

Seventy years after the Dunkirk evacuation, 50 of the surviving vessels that made the original perilous sea voyage make a poignant return to France. Dan Snow oversees proceedings.

6.00pm on Monday 21st November on Yesterday
12.00am on Tuesday 22nd November on Yesterday
1.00am on Tuesday 22nd November on Yesterday +1

 

"One of our Aircraft is Missing".

Haven't seen it for many years.

 

Just watched a recording of When the War was Won on Yesterday and saw Ron Goldstein followed by Sapper (Brian Guy) recounting their memories of being demobbed.

 

Just watched a recording of When the War was Won on Yesterday and saw Ron Goldstein followed by Sapper (Brian Guy) recounting their memories of being demobbed.


I've tapped it.....Not allowed to watch it yet as Andrea is in charge of the TV when she's home. A small price to pay to leave me alone with my laptop

 

We receive the U.S. Military Channel here in Canada. Not surprisingly, it is very much focused on American subjects and the Top 10 of Just About Anything is dominated by U.S. manufacturers. There are some great U.K. documentaries shown periodically which make it worthwhile.

The channel has been running it's An Officer and Movie series recently. It purports to be the "greatest war movies of all time" but mostly it's B grade schlock with the occasional gem:

The Big Red One
Kelly's Heroes
633 Squadron
Bridge at Remagen
PT 109
Windtalkers
Play Dirty
Heartbreak Ridge
Heaven and Earth
The Great Santini
Hart's War

 

Two interesting ones coming up this week:

2100 Thu 2 Feb BBC4 Bullets, Boots and Bandages Pt 1/3
2100 Sun 5 Feb BBC1 Bomber Boys

 

Idler, saw the Bomber Boys advertised, didn't know about the other one.
Thanks for the heads up.

 

Just sky + both. The Saul David one looks quite interesting.

 

Have been given a heads up about this by two different people so I will be recording it:

Bomber Boys Sunday 5 Feb at 9pm on BBC1 (1.5 hours)

Brothers Colin and Ewan McGregor follow up their documentary The Battle of Britain with a film exploring Bomber Command, a rarely-told story from the Second World War.

The film focuses primarily on the men who fought and died in the skies above occupied Europe, with numerous examples of individual heroism and extraordinary collective spirit, and Colin learns to fly the key aircraft of the campaign: the Lancaster bomber. But this is also the story of a controversy that has lasted almost 70 years.

The programme covers six years of wartime operations, and traces the obstacles and challenges that were overcome as the RAF developed and deployed the awesome fighting force that was Bomber Command.

 

Thanks for the heads up, I hadn't seen this.

 

Just been on tv advertising it, looks quite good

 

See Post 387

http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/books-films-tv-radio/15924-whats-tv-today-10.html

 

cheers I have pressed record button

 

Look forward o seeing this.

 

First programme was on logistics and was excellent. Not too heavy but some interesting stuff. The sort of things that make you think how did they ever manage. Wellingtons army in Portugal needed to slaughter 300 cattle a day just to provide meat, they carried 80,000 bricks to build the bread ovens (which had to be rebuilt at every stop). Worth sky +ing.

 

Today (5 feb. 2012) on 22:00-23:30 (CET) BBC1: Bomber Boys. About bomber command.

Regards,

Marco

 

Today (5 feb. 2012) on 22:00-23:30 (CET) BBC1: Bomber Boys. About bomber command.

Regards,

Marco


Anything with Ewan McGregor in will do for me

Lesley

 

Lesley,

I appologise for not catering for our female membership and mentioning that fact!

Regards,

Marco