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Absolutely loved this.   A gorgeous play with fine performances of rare calibre.  Mark Weinman is an incredible actor.   Very sad to see BBC Four is being stripped of its commissioning status; barbarism in action.

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In case you missed it or wish to see it again Fleetwood Mac’s Songbird: Christine McVie is repeated Friday 27th December 21:30 on BBC 4 . Thanks Christine McVie fan for the heads up! Great documentary if you haven’t seen it! . #christinemcvie #fleetwoodmac #bbcfour (at London, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/B6GlM4dhpU5/?igshid=g2dcud1c90h2

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Article is two weeks old (early October 2018). Broadcasts tonight (Oct 16 2018) on BBC Four. @lizziea2 , the article says there is a "U.S. deal expected soon”.

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Brief notes taken down whilst listening to Episode One and Two (titled 'Democracy has Bad Taste' and 'Beating the Bounds') of Grayson Perry's Reith Lectures podcast for BBC Four. We were asked to listen to them in order to partake in another class discussion in the studio.

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BBC Proms 5 September 2021   Petroc Trewlany in conversation with Mark Seow and Lucy Crowe. BBC Four, 7pm.

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I can't get over how relatable Cry For Help by #RickAstley is from last night's redux presentation of Top Of The Pops on #BBCFour. Everyone needs to hear this song! #MentalHealth #MentalHealthMatters #TOTP #TOTP1991 #TopOfThePops http://t.co/QBxF8Az7hD https://www.instagram.com/p/CPdeMYIHFQj/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Edinburgh Television Festival Awards 2020: 45th Annual Winners https://trendingawards.com/edinburgh-television-festival-awards-2020-45th-annual-winners/?feed_id=5&_unique_id=5fc8af259294e

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#TopOfThePops on #BBCFour has reached the nineties #TotP https://www.instagram.com/p/CF2jPYaFXEP/?igshid=5jqsp1hq38q3

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Prisoner C33 review THE GUARDIAN – Trevor Nunn directs a wretched, wonderful Wilde

In this dark, poetic one-man play, Toby Stephens gives it his all as the wrecked writer – imprisoned for gay sex in 1895 – as he rues his misfortunes with his younger self

Watching plays on television does require a certain mindset. Appearing as part of BBC Four’s Sunday Night Performance strand, Prisoner C33 is a brand new one-man play about Oscar Wilde’s time in Reading Gaol. It’s written by Stuart Paterson, directed by Trevor Nunn, and stars a very good Toby Stephens as Wilde, playing two very different versions of the writer in conversation with each other. If you are in the mood for an hour of one man talking to himself about the great misfortunes of his life, in a dim, candlelit cell, while the perforated eardrum that would contribute to his death causes him great pain, then this is a poetic and well-crafted play that I imagine would be even more electric on stage.

That hour doesn’t stretch patience or outstay its welcome. It begins with an animalistic moan, deep in the bowels of the Victorian prison, its candles and iron gates lending this a gothic chill. The moan is not coming from Wilde, yet, but from a disturbed man a few cells down, whose mutterings earn him an off-screen beating from a guard. This is 1895, and Wilde is in prison for gross indecency after the details of his affair with Lord Alfred Douglas, his beloved Bosie, became public knowledge. He would emerge from his sentence having written De Profundis and with the material for The Ballad of Reading Gaol, but C33 is more concerned with what Wilde had to endure, and the ultimate cost of that.

Stephens plays him as a wretched, tortured soul brought to the depths of despair by his predicament. He’s cold, hungry, sick, dirty – and bored. “I can bear anything except losing my mind,” he says, as if the prospect is imminent. Perhaps it was. Most of the drama concentrates on this wretched version of Wilde, a man who can only refer to himself by his prisoner number, in conversation with his younger self – a witty, elegant man, dressed in immaculate velvet, with rouged cheeks, who is urging his counterpart to strive for survival. “I say, remember yourself for who you are. A great and exceptional man,” says the young Oscar to the prison Oscar, who refers to his surroundings as “this tomb for those who are not yet dead”.

Nunn directs with utter sparseness, as if for a stage production, and, clearly, this is about the dialogue and the performance (or should that be performances?). Wilde debates grand subjects with himself. He rails against England and “sound English common sense” and the English education system. He talks of morality and art and faith and God. Is art useless? Is he ashamed of the success of The Importance of Being Earnest, a play he wrote in haste for money, that the young Oscar says will be performed for the rest of time? Wilde’s ego and snobbery come and go. He is ashamed of his materialism, yet finds solace in imagining rich fabrics and good French soap.

There is much to say about love, too, from the betrayal of “sweet Bosie” to his adoration of his wife and children, though we know that he would never see them again. He wonders if his ability to see “all the beauty in the world”, in men and in women, makes him a superior man. It would truly be a crime if this famous wit were not allowed a glimmer of comedy in his musings, and among the trauma and the horrors, there are plenty of moments of sly humour. If his sexuality is superior, should he expect an honour from the Queen? “Well, certainly a tax rebate, at the very least,” he quips.

It is not an easy watch, and I mean that quite literally. The conditions of a prison in 1895 were grim, and the idea that his cell “lacks a woman’s touch” is laughable; no woman could improve on that filthy, freezing cesspit. It is dark and gloomy (if this were BBC One prime time, there would be issues raised by the viewers who complain about mumbling), its protagonists looking for light in the shadows, and there is a piercing, high-pitched noise every time Wilde repeats his refrain of “If it was not for my ear …”

But Stephens is remarkable, and gives it his all as both the wreck of a man who would live only for another four years, and as the suave, younger Wilde, exhorting his older, ruined counterpart to live. A man imprisoned for gay sex might be a relic of the past in this country, but it makes a pitch for contemporary relevance in other ways, too. “We cannot keep on living like this, governed by fools who think only of wealth and of war and the size of their estates,” Wilde rages, adding a touch of timelessness to this sorry, sad tale.

Source: THE GUARDIAN

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Fleetwood Mac’s Songbird: Christine McVie...This is definitely a MUST SEE! So well done. Deserved the entire 90 minutes in fact it could have been longer. Well done BBC Four! 👏👏👏Check it out on the iPlayer if you are in the #UK and have access. I’m just sorry everyone in all parts of the world can’t see this... This is the opening sequence to the film. . #fleetwoodmacsongbird #fleetwoodmac #christinemcvie #bbcfour (at London, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2qDt8ZhPM3/?igshid=1b7z7w56wb0ks

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Art fans: the Cindy Sherman documentary on @bbc Four this past Sunday was pretty good - definitely worth a watch. #cindysherman #art #contemporaryart #documentary #arena #bbc #bbcfour #bbc4 #photography #contemporaryphotography #artist #tv #arts #artsdocumentaries #artdocumentary https://www.instagram.com/p/B0l7rRMBmot/?igshid=as8ucdoastma