What's on the TV today?

What's on T̶e̶l̶e̶v̶i̶s̶i̶o̶n̶ Talking Type Wireless next week. BBCR4. The Reunion: Occupation of Jersey. http://t.co/gXTkuGNfOS

 

Tora Tora Tora is on, I can't watch it again....................or can I! :biggrin:

 

BBC have started their WW1 programmes already

On tonight -Britain's Great War
Episode 1, War comes to Britain
BBC1 9pm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01nprmc

 

I have just enjoyed watching 'The Royals at War' on Yesterday. Focused heavily, as one might expect, on the Blitz and the King and Queen's great work in visiting bombed out families in London and other cities.

 

Tomorrow (Tuesday) on Freeview CH.14 (More 4) starting at 11:00am - The Cruel Sea.

Been on many times before but still a classic. Will get the recorder sorted as it`s years since I`ve seen it.

Jack Hawkins, Duffle Coats and constant mugs of Cocoa comes to mind.

 

on now BBC1 7pm
the one show
Bernard Cribbins

Welbike at the beginning of the show
plus news re Parachute regiment

 

Danny Rackman H.M.S Formidable speaking on Newsnight about kamikaze pilots

starts 23.06

http://www.bbc.co.uk/tv/bbctwo/live

 

World War 2
Bunker restoration

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-restoration-man

 

"Dancing in the Blitz: How World War Two made British Ballet" (BBC T.V. documentary):
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01s4z2h

This seemed to look at an interesting and easily overlooked aspect of life in wartime Britain.

The review on the BBC website is as follows:

David Bintley, director of the Birmingham Royal Ballet explores how the Second World War was the making of British ballet and how fundamental the years of hardship and adversity were in getting the British public to embrace ballet. Bintley shows how the then Sadler's Wells Ballet Company, led by Ninette de Valois and featuring a star-studded generation of British dancers and choreographers including Margot Fonteyn and Frederick Ashton, was forged during the Second World War.

It's the story of how de Valois and her small company of dancers took what was essentially a foreign art-form and made it British despite the falling bombs, the rationing and the call-up. Plus it is the story of how Britain, as a nation, fell in love with ballet.

Using rare and previously unseen footage, plus interviews with dance icons such as Dame Gillian Lynne and Dame Beryl Grey, Bintley shows how the Sadler's Wells Ballet company survived an encounter with Nazi forces in Holland, dancing whilst the bombs were falling in the Blitz, rationing and a punishing touring schedule to bring ballet to the British people as an antidote to the austerity the country faced to emerge post-war as The Royal Ballet.

 

Saw this on BBC News this morning. Looks interesting

I Was There: The Great War Interviews. BBC2 Tonight 9pm

In the early 1960's, the BBC interviewed 280 eyewitnesses of the First World War for the series, The Great War.
Using never-before-seen footage from these interviews, this film illuminates the poignant human experience of the war, through the eyes of those that survived it.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03y76xl

 

Thanks for this Lesley, it will be interesting to see such interviews from that time period.

 

Some very poignant stories told during this program. Very interesting to hear from veterans and families just 40+ years after the conflict.

 

TV 1941 style:

https://archive.org/details/Magicint1941

 

Have just watched a recording of the ww1 interviews shown yesterday.

Brilliantly handled and, more than ever before, I realised how different it was to the warfare I experienced in WW2.

If you have yet to see it, I beg you to make the effort and record it while you can.

Ron

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03y76xl/I_Was_There_The_Great_War_Interviews/

If in Britain, for the next week..

 

There was an interview this morning on the Radio 4's Today programme about this tonight on BBC4 and other dates and times.

"Building Burma'a Death Railway: Moving Half The Mountain"

DURATION: 1 HOUR
The brutal use of British prisoners of war by the Japanese to build a railway linking Thailand to Burma in 1943 was one of the worst atrocities of the Second World War. For the first time in 70 years, British POWs and their Japanese captors, many now in their nineties, open their hearts to tell the story of what really happened on the 'Death Railway'. Alongside the extraordinary experiences and stories of survival told by the British, their Japanese guards tell of different horrors of war, some never disclosed before.

Exploring how they have survived the terrible memories, this is an often inspiring story that many of these men have waited a long time to tell. What emerges is a warm and emotional journey through the lives of men from different sides reflecting on a terrible event that still haunts them.

BBC Four
Tue 1 Apr 2014
21:00
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BBC Four
Wed 2 Apr 2014
02:50
BBC Four
BBC Four
Thu 3 Apr 2014
23:00
BBC Four
BBC Four
Mon 7 Apr 2014
22:00
BBC Four

 

Thanks for the heads up papiermache:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03z09n9

 

if recording.. you should note that tonight's 0250 showing is signed..

 

I have just watched Burma's Death Railway on TV after recording it last night.

I still offer up thanks for never having to serve in that part of the world and in particular never having been a POW under the Japanese.

Lest we forget !

Ron

 

I too watched the Burma Railway Veterans programme on BBC4 last night. It was a humbling experience, featuring some remarkable men (but they would be too modest to admit this). My Art Teacher at my Secondary School was also a survivor and produced similar sketches to those shown on television last night.