1960 Roving Reporter - Pogues Entry - Alexander Irvine's House
Roving Reporter | Pogues Entry The Antrim home of writer Alexander Irvine is restored.
CHANNEL | BBC Northern Ireland
RECORDED | circa 1960
SYNOPSIS The charmingly named address, birthplace of the author of 'My Lady of the Chimney Corner', is being rescued from dilapidation and is to be thrown open to the public.
The silent-movie queen talks about acting
Broadcast 15 July 1982
Louise Brooks, legend of the silent-movie era, reveals her naturalistic approach to acting and recalls her experiences of working with German-language film director Georg Wilhelm Pabst.
The film Brooks talks about in this interview is the 1929 silent movie 'Pandora's Box' in which Brooks starred as Lulu, a beautiful and seductive young woman whose sexuality led to her downfall.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjIcFZ7kbWg
Record Breakers visited a tiny house. Impractical, yes, but also strangely adorable.
Originally broadcast 11 November 1975
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWZU6LELCO4
Sir Alec Guinness discusses hitting the jackpot with Star Wars
This clip is from Parkinson
Originally broadcast 17 December 1977
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCYkUhMT6RE
Are there fairies on the hillside?
A tongue-in-cheek report from James Boyce on the fate of a rath in Cappagh, County Tyrone, which is threatened with removal to make way for a new road.
A rath is an enclosure of roughly circular form made with a strong earth wall, originally serving as a fort and place of residence.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9D2OcTV2Xx4
Prince Andrew didn't go to school in Oldham, but two local boys explained what might have happened if he had.
Originally broadcast 28 December 1968
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJHlp9wo358
Annie Oakley was probably the most famous marksman/woman in the world when this short clip was produced in Edison’s Black Maria studio in West Orange, New Jersey. Barely five feet tall, Annie was always associated with the wild west, although she was born in 1860 as Phoebe Ann Oakley Mozee (or Moses) in Darke County, Ohio. Nevertheless, she was a staple in the Buffalo Bill Wild West Show and similar wild west companies. Because of her diminutive stature, she was billed as “Little Sure Shot.”
The man assisting her is this appearance is probably her husband, Frank E. Butler. Annie had outshot Butler (a famous dead-eye marksman himself) in a shooting contest in the 1880’s. Instead of nursing his bruised ego because he had been throughly outgunned by a woman, Butler fell in love, married Little Sure Shot, and became her manager. Theirs was a solid and happy marriage that lasted 44 years, and when Annie died on November 3, 1926, at age 66, a heartbroken Butler followed her to the grave 18 days later.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tEahLZGAss
“All over the country, lettering is being brightened, bulbs replaced, wiring renewed and soon our big cities will be as bright as they were in 1939."
Bomb-scarred London switches the lights on again after 10 years of darkness that began with the outbreak of war.
Originally broadcast 29 March 1949
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6k3v5hQPAmQ
27 August 1971
In this surviving excerpt from an edition of the documentary series 'Analysis', Sue MacGregor investigates why women feel they have to use cosmetics. Margaret Thatcher is interviewed about the details of her skin-care regime and reveals the problems she has finding the right powder and the pressure she feels to ensure that her make-up always looks fresh.
Margaret Thatcher was always very image conscious. After she won the leadership contest in the Conservative Party, Gordon Reece, a former television producer and media consultant, advised her on changing and softening her image.
CONTRIBUTORS
Dr Elizabeth NelsonContributor
Jocelyn Ryder-SmithContributor
Prof Sam ShusterContributor
Margaret ThatcherContributor
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIsjxp9YB6Y