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annswinfen
 23 Jul 2010, 12:28 #94530 Reply To Post
Great news for all fans of this wonderful Radio 4 series - Penguin will be publishing a lavish, fully illustrated book with photographs of all the objects. It comes out in October.

Terrific news!

Ann
Miller
 23 Jul 2010, 15:43 #94571 Reply To Post
Quote: annswinfen, Friday, 23 Jul 2010 12:28
Great news for all fans of this wonderful Radio 4 series - Penguin will be publishing a lavish, fully illustrated book with photographs of all the objects. It comes out in October.

Terrific news!

Ann


It may make a good book, Ann, but I beg to differ on the 'wonderful' nature of the R4 series. It knocked 'Book of the Week' off its perch for too long on occasion, and would have been far better, anyway, as a TV series. Certainly better than most of the dreck we are subjected to by BBC TV, these days.

My God, Auntie is so short of ideas, it's even resorted to resurrecting Sherlock Homes and sticking him in the 21st century, written by the cretins who penned much of Dr Who.

Pah.
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Athene
 30 Jul 2010, 13:43 #95145 Reply To Post
Quote: Miller, Friday, 23 Jul 2010 15:43
Quote: annswinfen, Friday, 23 Jul 2010 12:28
Great news for all fans of this wonderful Radio 4 series - Penguin will be publishing a lavish, fully illustrated book with photographs of all the objects. It comes out in October.

Terrific news!

Ann


It may make a good book, Ann, but I beg to differ on the 'wonderful' nature of the R4 series. It knocked 'Book of the Week' off its perch for too long on occasion, and would have been far better, anyway, as a TV series. Certainly better than most of the dreck we are subjected to by BBC TV, these days.

My God, Auntie is so short of ideas, it's even resorted to resurrecting Sherlock Homes and sticking him in the 21st century, written by the cretins who penned much of Dr Who.

Pah.


If "100 objects" had been a TV series, no director could have resisted to urge to create numberless silly re-enactments, made at vast expense and serving no useful purpose, at the same time irritating us with irrelevant "music." It is in the nature of directors of TV documentaries of all kinds to assume that no viewer has an attention span longer than five seconds, unless entertained by what can only be called visual drivel and constantly bombarded with noise.
Instead, because the programme was on radio, we were spared all that (and licence payers were spared the expense of creating it). Instead, we were asked to listen, and to use our imaginations to visualise the objects. Wonderful indeed! I am just about to add the book of the series to my Amazon wish-list.


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Athene
 30 Jul 2010, 20:30 #95178 Reply To Post
And did you also hear A History of the World in a 100 Jokes? These are also housed in the British Museum, and many of them are incredibly ancient. Some of them come from Ancient Greece, which has given rise to a serious international row,with the Greek Government is insisting that we keep them.


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