BBC announce "Prog Britannia" in autumn schedule
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Topic: BBC announce "Prog Britannia" in autumn schedule
Posted By: Dick Heath
Subject: BBC announce "Prog Britannia" in autumn schedule
Date Posted: September 12 2008 at 14:37
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BBC 4 do it again - we hope. Thanks to Sal for picking upon this in another place: http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2008/09_september/12/bbcfour.shtml%3Chr%3E%3C/blockquote%3E - http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2008/09_september/12/bbcfour.shtml (anybody confirm that film director Alex Cox narrating this - and why?) ------------- The best eclectic music on the Web,8-11pm BST/GMT THURS. CLICK ON: http://www.lborosu.org.uk/media/lcr/live.php - http://www.lborosu.org.uk/media/lcr/live.php Host by PA's Dick Heath. |
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Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: September 12 2008 at 14:41
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2008/09_september/12/bbcfour.shtml - http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2008/09_september/12/bbcfour.shtml some weird html formatting in the original link gave an error when clicked |
Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: September 12 2008 at 14:46
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2008/09_september/12/bbcfour.shtml Just checked -suffer two rejections then it reopened on the third try - could it be traffic - this has only just been announced by the BEEB and quickly picked upon by PA and Prog Ears websites and no doubt others. Also note it works by cut'n'pasting the URL ------------- The best eclectic music on the Web,8-11pm BST/GMT THURS. CLICK ON: http://www.lborosu.org.uk/media/lcr/live.php - http://www.lborosu.org.uk/media/lcr/live.php Host by PA's Dick Heath. |
Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: September 12 2008 at 14:51
I meant the link in your original post is malformed - I retyped the link by hand so it would work |
Dick Heath wrote:Posted By: fuxi
Date Posted: September 13 2008 at 05:47
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Justice at last?
The BBC says: Prog Rock Britannia is a comprehensive, feature-length documentary about progressive music and the generation of bands that made it - from the international success stories of Yes, Genesis, ELP, King Crimson and Jethro Tull, to the trials and tribulations of the lesser-known bands such as Caravan and Egg. The film is structured in three parts, charting the birth, rise and decline of a movement famed for complex musical structures, weird time signatures, technical virtuosity and strange – quintessentially English – literary influences. It looks at the psychedelic pop scene that gave birth to progressive rock in the late Sixties, the golden age of progressive music in the early Seventies – complete with drum solos and gatefold record sleeves – and the over-ambition, commercialisation and eventual fall from grace of this rarefied musical experiment at the hands of punk in 1977. The documentary is a provocative, humorous but affectionate re-appraisal of a music that was the value system of an all-too-brief period in British popular music. Contributors include Robert Wyatt, Mike Oldfield, Pete Sinfield, Rick Wakeman, Phil Collins, Arthur Brown, Carl Palmer and Ian Anderson. |
Posted By: Wilcey
Date Posted: September 13 2008 at 06:26
| WHEN IS IT ON? I NEED TO BUY MYSELF A TELLY!!!!! (and an aerial, and a licence.......yawn!) |
Posted By: fuxi
Date Posted: September 13 2008 at 07:05
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By the way: "an all-too-brief period in British popular music"???
Fortunately, it was gloriously reborn elsewhere, as we all know! 
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Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: September 13 2008 at 08:30
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There will be a lot of "mistakes" in it, I suspect. And Phil Collins is on every music programme on television it seems, it's all he seems to do now! -------------   
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Posted By: Frippertron
Date Posted: September 14 2008 at 12:45
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I remember one Prog Rock special they did, said that "2112" was a 40 minute concept.. hmm.. always thought it as 20 minutes!
Lets wait and see. ------------- The Cheerful Insanity of Prog Rock |
Posted By: eatingalison
Date Posted: September 17 2008 at 04:34
| Great to see BBC is airing this history of prog - but looking at the blurb it looks like their will be little mention of anything post late 70s - such a shame considering the growing popularity and diversity of prog - just look at the number of members of this forum! |
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: September 17 2008 at 07:24
At least the BBC are acknowledging the existence of progressive rock over three hours on their premier arts channel; an opportunity for some to see some classic archive footage & interviews (some of which no doubt will have been seen before) & for others to start a thread on PA the day after complaining about the mistakes
Yes, there will be interviews with Phil Collins - but remember, to some he's now just an irritating late middle aged popster, but to others, he remains one of the finest prog rock drummers of the 1970s & a member of the biggest British prog rock band at the time (arguably without whom Genesis may not have made it past 1975/1976) And yes - it's a shame this will probably only go up to the end of the 1970s & not show how healthy the genre still is (right Rachel?), but at least they're acknowledging it was there in the first place (and by not going past 1980 at least we'll be spared any archive footage of Pallas with Euan Lowson performing The Atlantis Suite )
So don't knock it people - just sit down, watch and marvel at how scary Steve Howe looks these days  ------------- 
Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: Starless
Date Posted: September 18 2008 at 09:46
..............and that would have been a bad thing?
Good on the Beeb tho' - can't wait!
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Posted By: Starless
Date Posted: September 18 2008 at 09:47
| There should be a Rick Wright tribute. |
Posted By: Vibrationbaby
Date Posted: September 18 2008 at 10:42
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You guys in Europe and the UK don`t know how lucky you are. Here in Canada we have Céline. ------------- |
Posted By: captain futility
Date Posted: September 20 2008 at 09:50
no, just watch it on i-player |
Posted By: mrheadache
Date Posted: June 05 2011 at 13:54
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Excellent 1.5 hour doc, shown several times before, but can't find any record of it being mentioned on here, so here's the link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00g8tfv/Prog_Rock_Britannia_An_Observation_in_Three_Movements/" rel="nofollow - - http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00g8tfv/Prog_Rock_Britannia_An_Observation_in_Three_Movements/ Plus a doc on the longest broadcasting female DJ in UK and Radio 1's longest serving DJ (for 40 years!), Annie Nightingale. Covers a lot of music apart from Prog of course, but informative nonetheless and especially when she's from the same generation as Bob Harris, John Peel, Tommy Vance and Alan Freeman, who all did so much to promote prog and rock music in general and educated and informed me on countless occasions over the years on their excellent radio shows where they were able to play what they loved and wanted to uninterfered with by playlist considerations, etc. http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b011mb8d/Annie_Nightingale_Bird_on_the_Wireless/" rel="nofollow -
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