Things in my personal life will soon be taking the direction of a dramatic canal turn and I don't mean that fence on the Aintree racecourse, but definitively towards me leading a much more permanent water based lifestyle. In the meantime here's a few morsels, or tidbits left over from a larger portion of watery adventures that I undertook a little earlier this year that I decided to save for a 'rainy day', speaking of which, the water levels in the UK, especially in Yorkshire, sure need some rain as the canal and river trust are rapidly closing canals due to them being unable to support boats.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCEXnwyETVw
14. The Barge Woman
After seeking solace from the night in the hollow of an old oak tree, Mr Toad awakes and follows a canal tow path.
Anglia Television's 18-part serialisation of Kenneth Grahame's magical story of the river bank and its lovable little characters followed the tried and tested Jackanory format laid out by the BBC.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rpPV03tIbM
Often, and more times than not #SylviaKristel was forced into defending herself AS MUCH AS HER ART and with that it is hard not to see her career as almost the definition of bittersweet. To be constantly overshadowed by a fictional, iconic screen character of 1970's cinema, easily helped the media obsessively define, and bring the term "stereotype" to the forefront of cinema going audiences.
Despite working with such acclaimed and talented directors as Walerian Borowczyk, Claude Chabrol and Roger Vadim, she rarely escaped the persona of Emmanuelle. While the studios decision to over dub her voice, with many of her performances, and despite Sylvia's native tongue being Dutch and being fluent in English, German and French, was to me the most insulting of her talents.
There is so much I can say about Sylvia as a person and for anyone interested, I insist you read her own autobiography 'Undressing Emmanuelle: A memoir' which is a biography that I cannot recommend to you enough. Emmanuelle was a defining role for a leading woman in 1970's cinema, at a time the 1970's were not defined for women to lead.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtSVMy7rNqY
1. Curiouser and Curiouser
Penelope Wilton reads the mesmerizing story of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1988)
Read by Penelope Wilton
Written by Lewis Carroll
Illustrations by John Tenniel
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hyctl4Zruo
A little over two years after his first appearance on Aspel & Company (an interview of which can also be seen on this channel) David joins Michael to talk about his latest series H.E Bates Darling Buds of May. Also on this show is comedian and actress Josie Lawrence and the ban Bananarama. This episode was originally broadcast on the 30th March, 1991.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Plzdq8-vtt8
A short look at the British television talk show and its format, along with clips from several interviews and presenters of its medium. Excerpts from Simon Dee from Dee Time, Russell Harty, Terry Wogan and Michael Parkinson. Including clips from interviews with Robert Morley, John Cleese, Sir Robin Day, Grace Jones, Miss Piggy, Shirley MacLaine, Bette Midler, Bruce Forsyth, violinists Yehudi Menuhin and Stéphane Grappelli, Itzhak Perlman and Larry Adler and Rod Hull and Emu.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlY5o69X1zI
Bedtime With Rosie is in equal parts bedroom farce and working-class kitchen sink drama, it acquired no success upon its limited big screen release in the mid 1970's and was largely forgotten about until its brief release on UK video cassette in the early 1980's. Rosie (played quite wonderfully by the late Una Stubbs is a single and heavily pregnant Liverpudlian girl who has come down to the capitol to stay one night at the home of her estranged Aunty Annie (played by Diana Dors) whose plans then are to then move on to Amsterdam. However her aunt Annie has a lodger Harry already staying with her, Harry is a reclusive and somewhat disillusioned 40 year old bachelor, who initially disapproves of Rosie lifestyle. The films director is Village of the Damned (1960) director Wolf Rilla.
Its interesting to note that Harry, played by Welsh actor Ivor Burgoyne also wrote the story and script as well as playing the lead male role. It was the first and the only time in Burgoyne's career that he had a starring role. Also noteworthy, the late, great Nicky Henson is credited here as the Rosie's "Fantasy Man" whose appearance is a highlight for me in what really does, for the most, play out as a stage play not quite up to the standard of writing from say Mike Leigh's Abigail's Party, but there is still lots to like in this nostalgic, if forgotten period piece. Its also nice, that when we do leave the interior of the flat, Johnny Briggs aka Coronation Street's Mike Baldwin has a small part playing a lover in a café.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lzopSyrhyc