01-05-2015, 10:06 AM
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Re: Documentaries
Originally Posted by Myra
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I'd rather watch a good documentary than a soap or even a film. I've seen some fab documentaries since joining Netflix. Anyone else like documentaries? If so, any particular ones? Louis Theroux is a favourite of mines.
When I worked at the BBC I got to know a nice lady TV producer quite well as I was often a first port of call for Production Teams going out to on locations.
She was an anthropologist and one day she asked me if I'd like to sit in with her and the editor to go through the early rushes of her recent trip to Ethiopia to see a particular nomadic tribe.
I was hooked!
I think that's when my hunger for information in this form first started.
That lady producer was so passionate about what she did and so very caring too.
She once came back from somewhere where there had been a drought for years and she said she simply could not eat surrounded by thousands of starving people; she had lost a stone in three weeks and looked ill!
I often wonder how she is now - I hope she's well.
She was one of the nicest TV producers I ever met. stevmk2
02-05-2015, 09:33 AM
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Re: Documentaries
Originally Posted by stevmk2
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I do too Myra, especially those about animals of people.When I worked at the BBC I got to know a nice lady TV producer quite well as I was often a first port of call for Production Teams going out to on locations.
She was an anthropologist and one day she asked me if I'd like to sit in with her and the editor to go through the early rushes of her recent trip to Ethiopia to see a particular nomadic tribe.
I was hooked!
I think that's when my hunger for information in this form first started.
That lady producer was so passionate about what she did and so very caring too.
She once came back from somewhere where there had been a drought for years and she said she simply could not eat surrounded by thousands of starving people; she had lost a stone in three weeks and looked ill!
I often wonder how she is now - I hope she's well.
She was one of the nicest TV producers I ever met. stevmk2
28-05-2015, 06:42 AM
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Re: Documentaries
Anyone watch Our World? An interview with Gina and Amanda, who were kidnapped by Ariel Castro and imprisoned in his home for ten years. Amanda bore a child to him in that time. Unbelievable to think what it must have been like, but amazing how resilient these young women had been.
09-06-2015, 03:41 PM
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Re: Documentaries
Originally Posted by Steven with a V
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I enjoyed the recent BBC - last episode of three this week - Armada: 12 Days to Save England, with Anita Dobson portraying a rather less than glamorous QE1! Dan Snow is a great narrator/host.
Nice mix of drama and factual narration..
09-06-2015, 04:37 PM
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Re: Documentaries
Originally Posted by plantman
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Documentaries are my favourite programme as well, particularly anything to do with astronomy, archaeology, egyptology geology, mathematics and natural history.
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