BBC4

[USTD]

I only listen to Kiss and watch TV when Big Brother is on.

Shank me.

[rbnc]

oh yes it is very very good, did anyone watch the programme about the elements & the periodic table the other night?

i tired but i was high as fuck and fell asleep, the same guy did a programme about chaos theory, twas fucking awesome

do you guys remember what they were called?

It was called Chemistry: A Voaltile History or something, it was good but it missed about the first 150 years of the history of Chemistry though!

[herbalicious]

The only things worth watching on TV are Football and Come Dine With Me. Truth.

[DRTY]

The only things worth watching on TV are Football and Come Dine With Me. Truth.

Come Dine With me yes. Football no.

Cheers rbnc

[magma]

oh yes it is very very good, did anyone watch the programme about the elements & the periodic table the other night?

i tired but i was high as fuck and fell asleep, the same guy did a programme about chaos theory, twas fucking awesome

do you guys remember what they were called?

It was called Chemistry: A Voaltile History or something, it was good but it missed about the first 150 years of the history of Chemistry though!

First two episodes are still on the iPlayer, been meaning to check this out for a week or so now...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0 ... _Elements/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0 ... _Elements/

Too much essential factual stuff on the Beeb right now. Despite Andrew Marr being a bit of an insuffrable douche, that modern British history he's doing has been quite good. Watched the one on the 50s last night, it was excellent. The pre-war series "Making of Modern Britain" was worth a watch too.

"How The Earth Made Us" has been amazing so far. First episode is genuinely mindblowing; second one was a bit more 'known' to me, but still very good.

My girlfriend rolls her eyes almost every time I reach for the iPlayer at the moment!

[DRTY]

I <3 iPlayer. I also <3 the fact the PS3 has it

You're right about there being too much good stuff tho, I hadn't even heard of that one you just mentioned. That's another added to the list. They need to keep shit on iPlayer for way more than 1 week.

[firky]

The best thing on BBC 4 at the moment is this man:



He's always made some of the best docs and he's back on BBC 4 with a new series, safe as fack!

[Pi-Krust]

The best thing on BBC 4 at the moment is this man:



He's always made some of the best docs and he's back on BBC 4 with a new series, safe as fack!

you talking about the Off Kilter thingy?,that was great especially the episode on scottish lower league football towns

[firky]

Just about everything he's done, he did an excellent series on the N a z i s and socialist architecture with out the "OMG ITS SHIT BECAUSE ITS izan" hysteria that you get. Brilliant stuff.

He was in Aberdeen last week.

[WhosZena]

make me a channel of your peace

Don't, we had to sing that!

[firky]

Just been watching this:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0 ... _Us_Water/

Pretty interesting:

Professor Iain Stewart continues his epic exploration of how the planet has shaped human history.

This time he explores our complex relationship with water. Visiting spectacular locations in Iceland, the Middle East and India, Iain shows how control over water has been central to human existence.

He takes a precarious flight in a motorised paraglider to experience the cycle of freshwater that we depend on, discovers how villagers in the foothills of the Himalayas have built a living bridge to cope with the monsoon, and visits Egypt to reveal the secret of the pharaohs' success.

Broadcast on:
BBC HD, 10:00pm Tuesday 26th January 2010
Duration:
60 minutes

[magma]

Just been watching this:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0 ... _Us_Water/

Pretty interesting:

Professor Iain Stewart continues his epic exploration of how the planet has shaped human history.

This time he explores our complex relationship with water. Visiting spectacular locations in Iceland, the Middle East and India, Iain shows how control over water has been central to human existence.

He takes a precarious flight in a motorised paraglider to experience the cycle of freshwater that we depend on, discovers how villagers in the foothills of the Himalayas have built a living bridge to cope with the monsoon, and visits Egypt to reveal the secret of the pharaohs' success.

Broadcast on:
BBC HD, 10:00pm Tuesday 26th January 2010
Duration:
60 minutes

Linked it above, you blind fuck!

Watched the third one on Wind last night, very good, but the first episode was my favourite so far.

[faust.dtc]

Has the occasional good programme...but its only my 4th favourite BBC channel.

[kingldub]

It's one of the only channels without "Fuck me I'm dancing!!!!!" crap on it, just for that it wins.

[particle-jim]

its only my 4th favourite BBC channel.

as opposed to tedious shite like bbc3? really? REALLY?

srsly tho, the only bbc channel that could possibly compete with bbc4 is bbc news24 (HARDtalk is a badman programme)

[DRTY]

HARDtalk is a badman programme

QFT.

Epic programme. Especially because it's called HARDtalk too. FUCK YEAH.

[slothrop]

The best thing on BBC 4 at the moment is this man:



He's always made some of the best docs and he's back on BBC 4 with a new series, safe as fack!

you talking about the Off Kilter thingy?,that was great especially the episode on scottish lower league football towns

Sorry, what was that? Jonathan Meades' Entire Televisual Output on Youtube? Surely not!

My personal favourite "this is why I love the license fee" moment since the death of was a BBC 4 documentary about iconoclastic young alpenhorn players shaking up the yodelling establishment[1] by actually going back to a more traditional way of playing and returning to pre-equal tempered microtonal styles.


[1] no, reallly

[firky]

Yeah I found the shrine on youtube myself and subscribe to it. I keep meaning to buy 'Filthy English' a book he wrote with several short stories in it. Including one about a dog who's a porn star.

[slothrop]

"I intend to strip off the drab grey overcoat of preconception to reveal the lime geen posing pouch of reality beneath..."

What a guy.

[firky]

Will Self with his rehearsed thesaurus and clumsy verbose is utterly shite next to Meades. Meades really is a man who can use the english language, Will Self just injects his sentences with words with more than three syllables and waves his hand in the air to emphasise he's used a big word.