Having recently re-watched ‘Missing Believed Wiped‘, I stumbled across a pair of nice articles covering the lost and wiped dramas of Northern Ireland – a region that, like the rest of the UK, lost a number of pieces to a poor archiving policy and the the claws of the bulk eraser.
Another interesting spot of archive footage – Brewers drays trotting around Sunderland!
Whist poking around on the BBC Genome website trying to find out the original airdate for Band of Brothers I wandered across this rather surprising warning…
And the BBC Archive has coughed up a lovely spot of old industrial folk music from the early 1970s. It’s certainly worth a listen and it’d be nice if the entirety of that edition of Omnibus somehow managed to make it to iPlayer…
And here is a mid-90s Britpop-related show. ‘Britpop Now‘ featured performances by Pulp, Blur, Supergrass, Elastica and others – and all with very little filler. Oasis are, however, notably missing.
Continue readingAnd today with have two Pulp documentaries.
Short and not particularly deep but a lovely throwback to the mid-90s. Also old enough that it still has (for whatever reason!) a random spot of Gary Glitter.
Longer and somewhat more in-depth, though with a tendency to wander off – the pub analysis was un-needed – and stray from from the narrative under construction. No obvious disgraced celebrities feature in this one but there was a small callout out to Rolf Harris and his stylophone.
Another nice mid-90s documentary, this time on the Manic Street Preachers.
Here’s a nice little documentary on the Liberal/SDP merger. A little before my time, there are a good number of faces I remember from later years – though all noticeably younger!
It seems to have been first shown at 6.00pm on the March 2nd, 2009.