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Quote ="WIZEB"Hillsborough - Never Forgotten was an excellent programme on BBC2 tonight....Moving, depressing, inspiring....Well worth an Iplayer viewing if ">missed.'"
I heard it wasn't going to be on the Iplayer
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Quote ="WIZEB"Hillsborough - Never Forgotten was an excellent programme on BBC2 tonight....Moving, depressing, inspiring....Well worth an Iplayer viewing if ">missed.'"
I heard it wasn't going to be on the Iplayer
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Yentob's having a right lark at the BBC's expense lately, isn't he?
Not bad for someone who was disciplined over faking his involvement in interviews on Imagine.
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Quote ="El Barbudo"
I also don't know why they had to go to Noo Yawk to look at the High Line (a raised railway, converted into a linear park, not a new construction, unlike Mile End, which was)'"
They have had a plan to do the same in Birmingham for some years now and they have a similar plethora of now disused viaducts entering the city from all directions which nature has been left to reclaim - local residents in Deritend (for instance) have campaigned for a long time to be allowed up onto one disused viaduct in their district to reclaim it and allotment-ize it, to no avail at the moment, in the meantime nature is continuing with its job anyway and some decent sized young trees can now be seen on some of the raised railways  icon_biggrin.gif" alt="icon_biggrin.gif" title="Very Happy" /> |
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Quote ="El Barbudo"
I also don't know why they had to go to Noo Yawk to look at the High Line (a raised railway, converted into a linear park, not a new construction, unlike Mile End, which was)'"
They have had a plan to do the same in Birmingham for some years now and they have a similar plethora of now disused viaducts entering the city from all directions which nature has been left to reclaim - local residents in Deritend (for instance) have campaigned for a long time to be allowed up onto one disused viaduct in their district to reclaim it and allotment-ize it, to no avail at the moment, in the meantime nature is continuing with its job anyway and some decent sized young trees can now be seen on some of the raised railways icon_biggrin.gif" alt="icon_biggrin.gif" title="Very Happy" /> | |
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Quote ="Andy Gilder"Yentob's having a right lark at the BBC's expense lately, isn't he?
Not bad for someone who was disciplined over faking his involvement in interviews on ">Imagine.'"
He's had a long career based on appearing to be the thoughtful man with his finger on the cultural pulse but, in truth, just sucking-up to whoever is the current hot-property, getting his own name up-front as the discoverer.
Don't know if you've ever read [i2 1/2 Men in a Boat [/i by Nigel Williams?
Yentob (although not named IIRC) was supposed to be the third man in the boat, following Jerome K Jerome's trip up-river, but they had to set off without him and even when he did eventually turn up he was on the phone all the time or asking his fellow boatees which way they thought was best to lean/jump these days ... an opportunist if ever there was one.
A non-renaissance, shallower version of Melvyn Bragg.
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Quote ="Andy Gilder"Yentob's having a right lark at the BBC's expense lately, isn't he?
Not bad for someone who was disciplined over faking his involvement in interviews on ">Imagine.'"
He's had a long career based on appearing to be the thoughtful man with his finger on the cultural pulse but, in truth, just sucking-up to whoever is the current hot-property, getting his own name up-front as the discoverer.
Don't know if you've ever read [i2 1/2 Men in a Boat [/i by Nigel Williams?
Yentob (although not named IIRC) was supposed to be the third man in the boat, following Jerome K Jerome's trip up-river, but they had to set off without him and even when he did eventually turn up he was on the phone all the time or asking his fellow boatees which way they thought was best to lean/jump these days ... an opportunist if ever there was one.
A non-renaissance, shallower version of Melvyn Bragg.
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Quote ="JerryChicken"They have had a plan to do the same in Birmingham for some years now and they have a similar plethora of now disused viaducts entering the city from all directions which nature has been left to reclaim - local residents in Deritend (for instance) have campaigned for a long time to be allowed up onto one disused viaduct in their district to reclaim it and allotment-ize it, to no avail at the moment, in the meantime nature is continuing with its job anyway and some decent sized young trees can now be seen on some of the raised railways
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Just remembered from my 1990's days living in the East End ... The Greenway ... a walk along the top of one of Bazalgette's fantastic sewers.
It was pressed into use last year as one of the approaches to the Olympic Park.
I did wonder how many people knew that the bronze strip that crosses it is the line of the Greenwich Meridian or that the strange-looking building of fantastical gothic that you pass is actually Abbey Mills pumping station ... or even that they were walking along the top of a sewer !
There must be hundreds of locations and structures in Britain that could be greened-up oases at much lower cost than the squiliions it would take to build another bridge over the Thames. |
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Quote ="JerryChicken"They have had a plan to do the same in Birmingham for some years now and they have a similar plethora of now disused viaducts entering the city from all directions which nature has been left to reclaim - local residents in Deritend (for instance) have campaigned for a long time to be allowed up onto one disused viaduct in their district to reclaim it and allotment-ize it, to no avail at the moment, in the meantime nature is continuing with its job anyway and some decent sized young trees can now be seen on some of the raised railways
icon_biggrin.gif" alt="icon_biggrin.gif" title="Very Happy" />'"
Just remembered from my 1990's days living in the East End ... The Greenway ... a walk along the top of one of Bazalgette's fantastic sewers.
It was pressed into use last year as one of the approaches to the Olympic Park.
I did wonder how many people knew that the bronze strip that crosses it is the line of the Greenwich Meridian or that the strange-looking building of fantastical gothic that you pass is actually Abbey Mills pumping station ... or even that they were walking along the top of a sewer !
There must be hundreds of locations and structures in Britain that could be greened-up oases at much lower cost than the squiliions it would take to build another bridge over the Thames. | |
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Seems to be doing a lot of programmes about architecture recently. I caught an oldish prog about Rogers last week and this week he was talking about Zaha Hadid. One thing I did notice is that he and architects talk a lot of guff.
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