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The Edwardians on BBC4
Apr. 27th, 2007 04:03 pmHas anyone been watching these programmes? They're great. BBC4 has become what BBC2 used to be: the source of Interesting Stuff - though Edwardian Supersize Me isn't something to watch just before you eat - or just after, either...
I caught a "Four on Two" broadcast last(?) week about the resurgence of Boys' Adventure Stories - Young James Bond, Alex Rider, CHERUB etc. - which was even better, for another reason entirely. One scene featured a slow crawl across a bookshelf laden with those lovely hardbound Victorian/Edwardian books-for-boys, the ones with gold-stamped illustrations on their spines.
And that's where I saw an antique book my Mum got for me at the second-hand bookstall in Lisburn Market about 38 years ago. That book was long-lost - so much stuff was dumped when we moved after my father's death - but I've now tracked it down again (with a reasonable pricetag, too!) on AbeBooks. :-D
I just wish I'd been recording the programme, to note down what else was on that shelf. Did anyone catch it?
I caught a "Four on Two" broadcast last(?) week about the resurgence of Boys' Adventure Stories - Young James Bond, Alex Rider, CHERUB etc. - which was even better, for another reason entirely. One scene featured a slow crawl across a bookshelf laden with those lovely hardbound Victorian/Edwardian books-for-boys, the ones with gold-stamped illustrations on their spines.
And that's where I saw an antique book my Mum got for me at the second-hand bookstall in Lisburn Market about 38 years ago. That book was long-lost - so much stuff was dumped when we moved after my father's death - but I've now tracked it down again (with a reasonable pricetag, too!) on AbeBooks. :-D
I just wish I'd been recording the programme, to note down what else was on that shelf. Did anyone catch it?
