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Post by stephen68 on Oct 30, 2012 20:54:16 GMT 12
Parsley Sidings, starts on Thursday on Radio 4 Extra, i have not heard it before so shall be tuning in to give it a whirl.
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Post by jonboy on Oct 30, 2012 21:58:01 GMT 12
I see the BBC are releasing them on CD, 4 episodes for around £10
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Post by stephen68 on Oct 30, 2012 22:04:56 GMT 12
I will listen to it first Jonboy, see how i like or dislike it before considering any purchase.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Oct 31, 2012 23:09:12 GMT 12
The CD has been out for a while and it contains the elusive episode The New Level Crossing.
I reckon you'll very much enjoy this series Stephen, it's pretty good for its time. It has a great cast but I feel the stand out performer is Kenneth Connor. Arthur and Ian are great too.
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Post by stephen68 on Oct 31, 2012 23:42:21 GMT 12
I just looked at the Parsley Sidings section on your website, im looking forward to hearing it now.
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Post by stephen68 on Nov 2, 2012 7:53:44 GMT 12
Encouraging start, quite enjoyed it, although i felt a little that the Kenneth Connor character was in the same mould of the Sid James character in Hancock. Just an opinion.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Nov 2, 2012 10:07:05 GMT 12
Sid James was the best thing in Hancock in my opinion!
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Post by jonboy on Nov 3, 2012 3:23:38 GMT 12
Sid was a perfect for Hancock but they were never a team, Sid had a very sucessful career in films while Tony had only TV & radio, Tonys last BBC TV series which many people remember, The Blood Donor, The Lift, The Bowmans etc were all without Sid.
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Post by stephen68 on Nov 3, 2012 6:31:03 GMT 12
Yeah, Hancock didn't want to be seen as a double act with Sid , so dropped him along with Galton and Simpson and his long term agent, to go it alone.
Of the episodes you have mentioned i have only seen The Blood Donor, and although funny, of all the episodes i have seen The Lawyer is my favourite, it has Sid and also John Le Mes and Bill Fraser (husband of Pam Cundell) in.
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Post by nunky on Nov 3, 2012 9:12:03 GMT 12
Anybody know what quality the episodes are.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Nov 3, 2012 9:15:49 GMT 12
I have not heard any but I believe the BBC now has good quality restored versions for all episodes.
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Post by stephen68 on Nov 3, 2012 10:23:48 GMT 12
The quality on the radio the other night was not perfect, you could tell it was a relatively old show, there was a less than stereo sound.
Best way i can describe it is, as if a blanket was covering the speakers.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Nov 3, 2012 10:27:24 GMT 12
It's better than nothing at all, which apart from one episode is what the BBC used to have in their holdings.
I emailed the BBC on several occasions over the years offering them copies of the ones I had collected which at the time they never had, and never ever got a reply. Hopeless.
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Post by stephen68 on Nov 3, 2012 11:16:06 GMT 12
It wasn't a complaint Dave it was an opinion that's all, to the question from Nunky.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Nov 4, 2012 16:30:59 GMT 12
Yep, of course, Sorry if my message came across wrong, I was thinking how good it is that the BBC finally have all the episodes and they are releasing them on CD and on BBC Radio again.
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Post by jonboy on Nov 5, 2012 2:36:03 GMT 12
I believe there are lots of people who have offered radio shows but have never heard back from the BBC, there are many 'lost' episodes of things like The Goon Show out there in newsgroups that are quite good quality, though Radio 4 extra have been broadcasting some of The Navy Lark from 1963 reel to reel recordings that were send to them recently.
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Post by stephen68 on Nov 9, 2012 22:23:18 GMT 12
I listened to last nights episode, and i enjoyed it, much clearer sound on this episode, than the pilot from last week.
I am struggling a bit with the similarity between the characters played by Arthur and Ian from their Dad's Army characters at the moment.
The pompous and officious Horace/Mainwaring and Pike/Bert being stupid boy, and accident prone.
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Post by cjb666 on Jan 12, 2013 3:07:06 GMT 12
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Post by stephen68 on Jan 12, 2013 3:39:48 GMT 12
Those are the episodes i have been listening to CJB, the radio 4 extra shows, although i did miss the last few of them.
It hasn't actually finished yet, but the first series ends this thursday(17th).
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Post by jonboy on Jan 15, 2013 23:03:37 GMT 12
I remember Keith Skues from Radio London were he was a DJ along with Dave Cash, Kenny Everett, Ed Stewart etc - I have a cd where he tells the story of the pirate radio ship.
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