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A Very English Winter: The Unthanks.
« on: December 16, 2012, 10:06:33 PM »
Watched a very interesting programme tonight on BBC4 about English winter customs and dance traditions with quite a bit of footage of melodeon players. Its showing on BBC I Player.
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Re: A Very English Winter: The Unthanks.
« Reply #1 on: December 16, 2012, 10:08:09 PM »
Missed it. Guess it will be on iPlayer?
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Re: A Very English Winter: The Unthanks.
« Reply #2 on: December 16, 2012, 10:10:53 PM »
It is. :D
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Re: A Very English Winter: The Unthanks.
« Reply #3 on: December 16, 2012, 11:07:54 PM »
Hey - I'm on the telly!  8)

Seriously - an excellent programme, well worth watching on the iPlayer thing if you didn't see it first time round.
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Re: A Very English Winter: The Unthanks.
« Reply #4 on: December 16, 2012, 11:49:51 PM »
Shame they didn't show the Whittlesey Straw Bear ...

http://www.strawbear.org.uk/



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Re: A Very English Winter: The Unthanks.
« Reply #5 on: December 17, 2012, 11:20:03 AM »
Quote from: Steve_freereeder on December 16, 2012, 11:07:54 PM
Hey - I'm on the telly!  8)

Seriously - an excellent programme, well worth watching on the iPlayer thing if you didn't see it first time round.

got a link? (Lazy of West Lancashire)
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Re: A Very English Winter: The Unthanks.
« Reply #6 on: December 17, 2012, 11:23:13 AM »
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Re: A Very English Winter: The Unthanks.
« Reply #7 on: December 17, 2012, 12:25:39 PM »
xgx, I thought they did show it?
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Re: A Very English Winter: The Unthanks.
« Reply #8 on: December 17, 2012, 01:12:59 PM »
Quote from: Chris Brimley on December 17, 2012, 12:25:39 PM
xgx, I thought they did show it?
I saw only the Ramsey Straw Bear...

I was watching it on iplayer ... with the constant annoyance of the pop up box asking to store data so I may have missed THE Straw Bear ( ;D) ...
(I did see the fellah who was responsible for the revival of the  Whittlesey Bear... and him a Geordie too ;))

I didn't spot Steve either... probably cos of those damned data boxes too  ;D
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Re: A Very English Winter: The Unthanks.
« Reply #9 on: December 17, 2012, 01:24:50 PM »
It is also repeated on BBC 4 on 21/12/12 01:00 am
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Re: A Very English Winter: The Unthanks.
« Reply #10 on: December 17, 2012, 02:09:52 PM »
Quote from: xgx on December 17, 2012, 01:12:59 PM
I was watching it on iplayer ... with the constant annoyance of the pop up box asking to store data so I may have missed THE Straw Bear ( ;D) ...

I didn't spot Steve either... probably cos of those damned data boxes too  ;D

What data boxes?  Is it your policy towards cookies that is causing that?  You cannot do very much really WITHOUT cookies, you can set systems to delete them later on, rather than refuse them in flight.
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Re: A Very English Winter: The Unthanks.
« Reply #11 on: December 17, 2012, 02:22:32 PM »
Quote from: xgx on December 17, 2012, 01:12:59 PM
I didn't spot Steve either...
Oh, I'm definitely there in several shots...  8)
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Re: A Very English Winter: The Unthanks.
« Reply #12 on: December 17, 2012, 02:25:18 PM »
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I saw only the Ramsey Straw Bear...

Ah, OK.
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Re: A Very English Winter: The Unthanks.
« Reply #13 on: December 17, 2012, 02:29:02 PM »
Quote from: brianread on December 17, 2012, 02:09:52 PM
Quote from: xgx on December 17, 2012, 01:12:59 PM
I was watching it on iplayer ... with the constant annoyance of the pop up box asking to store data so I may have missed THE Straw Bear ( ;D) ...

I didn't spot Steve either... probably cos of those damned data boxes too  ;D

What data boxes?  Is it your policy towards cookies that is causing that?  You cannot do very much really WITHOUT cookies, you can set systems to delete them later on, rather than refuse them in flight.

Hmmm, not really true. I reject the vast majority of cookies and only let through the favoured few.

I'm downloading the programme now using the wonderful get_iplayer, so no cookies and stuff there either  (:)
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Re: A Very English Winter: The Unthanks.
« Reply #14 on: December 17, 2012, 02:30:24 PM »
Quote from: Steve_freereeder on December 16, 2012, 11:07:54 PM
Hey - I'm on the telly!  8)

Seriously - an excellent programme, well worth watching on the iPlayer thing if you didn't see it first time round.

What were you doing?

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Re: A Very English Winter: The Unthanks.
« Reply #15 on: December 17, 2012, 03:21:12 PM »
Quote from: brianread on December 17, 2012, 02:09:52 PM
(...)  You cannot do very much really WITHOUT cookies (...)

OH! YES YOU CAN !!! ...


Yes, Brian, he's behind you ;D (Cue Raspberry)
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Re: A Very English Winter: The Unthanks.
« Reply #16 on: December 17, 2012, 03:21:46 PM »
Too Bad! We can't see it in the U.S.  :'(
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Re: A Very English Winter: The Unthanks.
« Reply #17 on: December 17, 2012, 03:29:20 PM »
Quote from: xgx on December 17, 2012, 03:21:12 PM
Quote from: brianread on December 17, 2012, 02:09:52 PM
(...)  You cannot do very much really WITHOUT cookies (...)

OH! YES YOU CAN !!! ...


Yes, Brian, he's behind you ;D (Cue Raspberry)
mmmmm...raspberry cookies.....
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Re: A Very English Winter: The Unthanks.
« Reply #18 on: December 17, 2012, 03:42:43 PM »
Trust you!!!

you can crunch through as many as you like S ...no calories ;D
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Re: A Very English Winter: The Unthanks.
« Reply #19 on: December 17, 2012, 03:47:28 PM »
I spotted a lot of friends some from the 60s and 70s archival stuff as well as recent clips.  Good bits from Sheffield Carols and Sword dance teams,

Elf n safety issues eh? Lewes, Allendale, Haxey Hood where I got hammered once long ago, never again!
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