TV Alert 2017

Talking Pictures TV - An archive film & TV channel. Classic British film & TV & classic American TV - Sky 343, Freeview 81, Freesat 306 & Youview 81.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_in_the_Sky

The Man in the Sky (released in the U.S. as Decision Against Time) is a 1957 film starring Jack Hawkins and produced by Ealing Films,

Last week's programme had some sort of mobile(?) military radar unit at Benbecula and a Hercules arriving to pick up some soldiers on an exercise.

DOCUMENTARY: Puirt-adhair (Highland Airports)
On: BBC Alba
Date: Tuesday 4th July 2017 (Already shown)
Time: 20:30 to 21:00 (30 minutes long)

A' giùlain easlaintich anns a' phlèana eiridinn, anns an tùr-stiùiridh is plèana an airm. Documentary series that takes a behind-the-scenes look at the airports across the Highlands and islands, through the eyes of the people who work there. In this episode, paramedic Peter Craigmile from Aberdeen Airport's air ambulance crew travels up to Shetland and out west to Stornoway - all in a day's work. At Sumburgh Airport in Shetland, Chris Sandstom is training to be an air-traffic controller, and Andy Bell is keeping a watchful eye over him as things get busy. Meanwhile, Donald MacKay is working in the control tower at Benbecula Airport, where a large military plane is expected to arrive at night. Fire watch manager Derek Campbell has to check all the runways before darkness falls. episode 4.
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The Brixmis story...

mbriscoe wrote:

Just listening to a programme on Radio 4 Extra about BRIXMIS, probably repeat from Radio 4 but it is on Radio 4 Extra again tonight at 20:30 and 01:30h.

HISTORY DOCUMENTARY: The Brixmis Story
On: BBC Radio 4 Extra
Date: Monday 17th July 2017 (starting this evening)
Time: 20:30 to 21:00 (30 minutes long)

The Brixmis officer spies in uniform were the unsung heroes of the Cold War. Jolyon Jenkins tells their story. From June 2007.
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Paul Murton's new series shows briefly some of Loch Ewe's defences tonight. About 15 minutes into the programme. It will be on iPlayer.

There is some archive film footage that I have never seen before.

DOCUMENTARY: Grand Tours of Scotland's Lochs
On: BBC 1 Scotland HD
Date: Monday 11th September 2017 (6 minutes left)
Time: 19:30 to 20:00 (30 minutes long)

Shelter from the Storm. Series in which Paul Murton takes a tour of Scotland's lochs. In this edition, he travels from Loch Gairloch to Loch Maree and meets the king and queen of Islonia, matches a medieval feat of archery, dives on a wartime wreck in Loch Ewe, and finds himself short-changed on an island in Loch Maree.
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An advanced warning of a series of 4 programs by Michael Portillo on Channel 5 called "Portillo's Hidden History of Britain"

Due to be broadcast starting next month, one of these is a visit to Orfordness and talks about H-Bomb fuze testing and the Cobra Mist program

more here...
www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-48842...idden-histories.html

Next week Paul Murton has something about SOE in the Arisaig area.

DOCUMENTARY: Grand Tours of Scotland's Lochs
On: BBC 1 Scotland HD
Date: Monday 25th September 2017 (starting in 5 days)
Time: 19:00 to 19:30 (30 minutes long)

Through the Rough Bounds.
Series in which Paul Murton takes a tour of Scotland's lochs. In this edition, he travels into the secret heart of the Rough Bounds of Knoydart by way of Loch nan Umbh, Loch Morar, Loch Nevis and Loch Arkaig. He lifts the lid on the area's secret connection with the SOE, the celebrated wartime organisation, exploring how agents were trained in the dark arts of sabotage on the shores of several lochs. On Loch Morar, Paul meets a man who claims to have seen the legendary monster Morag, before getting a ferry to Inverie in the heart of the Rough bounds, and searching for Jacobite gold beside Loch Arkaig.
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CornwallPhil wrote:

Thanks for the heads up.
Reading the blurb I'm left wondering if there is any connection between what Paul's witness witnessed and what the SOE got up to in the lochs!!??

No Morag precedes SOE by many years, not as well known as her little sister in Loch Ness. Perhaps she thrived on spillages from the Heavy Water plant!

I will have run through this again, I was listening to the radio so not paying a lot of attention!

About half way through they seemed to be around the Chain Home site. They also showed the RN lookouts, basically quadrant towers for large warships firing at a towed surface target. Also I think they briefly showed the old CSO site in Brora.

It will be on iPlayer.

DOCUMENTARY: The Art of Fly Fishing
On: BBC 4 (Freeview)
Date: Tuesday 24th October 2017 (28 minutes left)
Time: 23:00 to 00:00 (1 hour long)

Kiss the Water.
In a cottage in northern Scotland, Megan Boyd twirled bits of feather, fur, silver and gold into elaborate fishing flies - at once miniature works of art and absolutely lethal. Wherever men and women cast their lines for the mighty Atlantic salmon, her name is whispered in mythic reverence and stories about her surface and swirl like fairy tales. With breathtaking cinematography and expressive, hand-painted animation, this film both adheres to and escapes from traditional documentary form, spinning the facts and fictions of one woman's life into a stunning meditation on solitude, love, and its illusions.
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