What's on the TV today?

Tonight BBC1 8pm

Just a reminder that the Antiques Roadshow is showing the first part of a two-part special marking the centenary of the outbreak of World War One
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b040n6wz

 

Downfall

BBC 4 9pm

 

I just watched 'Fort Algiers' on telly. I've never seen it before but have always enjoyed such films, 'Beau Geste' and so on. I was watching a fight scene with the baddy lead taking a beating. "That's Ironside" I laughed out loud. And it was Raymond Burr!

Good old fashioned black and white story:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045783/

 

The extraordinary story of Capt Eric "Winkle" Brown. Scotland's greatest ever pilot
BBC2 tonight 9pm
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/scotlands-greatest-ever-pilot-captain-3633394

 

I caught some of it too, what an amazing gentleman.

 

It is on the BBC iPlayer and interweb for the next 6 days

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b045pbq2/britains-greatest-pilot-the-extraordinary-story-of-captain-winkle-brown

Well worth another look and so pleased they didnt use that whole "wobbly hand held camers" style that was so "in" in the 1990's and is now de rigeur in all the history / Open University programmes (you can tell its a bad style when the O.U. adopt it )

 

Having not been in touch for some time I wonder if I dare mention the Great British Menu Banquet for D-Day veterans and the like which will be shown on BBC2 7 pm.on Friday 6 June. It was actually recorded in March in the crypt at St Paul's. (And no I didn't see any cat).

 

Saturday 12th
17.15
More 4.

'Three UK families investigate whether their relatives are amongst the remains of 250 British and Australian WWI soldiers found in unmarked graves in northern France.'

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/wwi-finding-the-lost-battalions

 

The Lancaster
BBC 2 Sunday 20/7/14 9.30pm

John Sergeant meets former Lancaster crewmen and helps a Daughter find her Fathers plane shot down over Germany in 1943

 

Not WW2

Red Arrows:Inside the Bubble
Sunday 9am BBC 2

Behind the scenes documentary as the team prepare to celebrate their 50th display season

 

Not WW2

Railways of the Great War with Michael Portillo on all next week. Starts Monday 4th August, 6pm, then Tuesday onwards 6.30pm. 6 episodes.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04ddmt3

Lesley

 

All this week on BBC1 9.15 AM
The People Remember
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04nyyy7


All this week on BBC1 7pm The Passing Bells (WW1)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04nz34r

 

Well my favourite WW2 film was on again today, Tora, Tora, Tora.

The nice thing about today was that my eldest daughter watched it with me and seemed to find it of interest. She turned to me about halfway through and said:

"Hey Dad, if it wasn't for Pearl Harbor, do you think that your granddad would have survived WW2?"

Food for thought indeed.

 

Tonight at 21:45 CET on ARTE TV channel, normally in French & German

Night Will Fall

See also the following link:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3455822/combined

Stefan.

 

Now 21.00-22.00 on forces tv, Remembering Arnhem.

 

Anyone been watching Antiques Roadshow Detectives? There have been some really good stories this past week, but I should imagine that this interview with Zdenka Fantlova, a Holocaust survivor meeting George Leonard, one of the British soldiers whose unit liberated Bergen-Belsen will be a very emotional one.

You can see it on Wednesday 15th April at 18.30pm on BBC 2
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05rbp61

A clip here of the programme shown on BBC News last week
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-32255966

Lesley

 

Today, 14.15, 5 USA (Freeview) 'Theirs is the Glory' recreation of Arnhem featuring many Arnhem veterans.

Rare outing of this great film.

 

Antiques Roadshow Detectives Tonight's episode available on BBC iPlayer

Paul Atterbury investigates the role of the Medway Queen in the Dunkirk Evacuation and takes a grandson to visit his grandfather's ship for the first time.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b05rq2jr/antiques-roadshow-detectives-11-medway-queen