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Peter Able July 20th 15 05:20 PM

TV Programmes
 
Several documentaries relating to transport and London coming up on
London Live:

25Jul15 1900: Terminus: Award-winning Schlesinger docu: A Day at
Waterloo Station in 1961.

01Aug15 1900: Capital Visit: Follows a school outing to London in the 1950s.

01Aug15 1930: This Year - London: Follows a factory outing to London in
the 1950s.

29Aug15 1900: Bridge of Song: Transport developments 60 years ago -
including London's buses.

All from British Transport Films.

E&OE

[email protected] July 20th 15 10:46 PM

TV Programmes
 
In article , stuck@home
(Peter Able) wrote:

Several documentaries relating to transport and London coming up on
London Live:

25Jul15 1900: Terminus: Award-winning Schlesinger docu: A Day at
Waterloo Station in 1961.

01Aug15 1900: Capital Visit: Follows a school outing to London in the
1950s.

01Aug15 1930: This Year - London: Follows a factory outing to London
in the 1950s.

29Aug15 1900: Bridge of Song: Transport developments 60 years ago -
including London's buses.

All from British Transport Films.


How might those of us not in London see these?

--
Colin Rosenstiel

Someone Somewhere July 21st 15 08:34 AM

TV Programmes
 
On 20/07/2015 23:46, wrote:
In article , stuck@home
(Peter Able) wrote:

Several documentaries relating to transport and London coming up on
London Live:

25Jul15 1900: Terminus: Award-winning Schlesinger docu: A Day at
Waterloo Station in 1961.

01Aug15 1900: Capital Visit: Follows a school outing to London in the
1950s.

01Aug15 1930: This Year - London: Follows a factory outing to London
in the 1950s.

29Aug15 1900: Bridge of Song: Transport developments 60 years ago -
including London's buses.

All from British Transport Films.


How might those of us not in London see these?

Given this was posted to uk.transport.LONDON it wasn't unreasonable to
do so.

For those not privileged enough to live here a quick look on their
website suggests Sky channel 117. If one is also bereft of Sky
privileges you might be on your own.

They do stream some of the shows on their website, but I have no idea
whether any of these will be.

michael adams[_7_] July 21st 15 11:50 AM

TV Programmes
 

wrote in message
...
In article , stuck@home
(Peter Able) wrote:

Several documentaries relating to transport and London coming up on
London Live:

25Jul15 1900: Terminus: Award-winning Schlesinger docu: A Day at
Waterloo Station in 1961.

01Aug15 1900: Capital Visit: Follows a school outing to London in the
1950s.

01Aug15 1930: This Year - London: Follows a factory outing to London
in the 1950s.

29Aug15 1900: Bridge of Song: Transport developments 60 years ago -
including London's buses.

All from British Transport Films.


How might those of us not in London see these?


They're all available on various DVD volumes of the BFI BT Film
Collection available from Amazon and elsewhere.

"Terminus" is on volume three, "Capital Visit" volume two,
"This Year" volume one. Can't find "Bridge of Song" although
it sounds a lot like "All That Mighty Heart" which is on volume ten
"London on the Move"

There's an 18 disc box set which can be had for a shade under
£50.


http://www.amazon.co.uk/British-Tran...ransport+films


michael adams

....










--
Colin Rosenstiel




David Cantrell July 21st 15 11:51 AM

TV Programmes
 
On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 05:46:32PM -0500, wrote:
In article , stuck@home
(Peter Able) wrote:

Several documentaries relating to transport and London coming up on
London Live:

25Jul15 1900: Terminus ...
01Aug15 1900: Capital Visit ...
01Aug15 1930: This Year - London ...
29Aug15 1900: Bridge of Song ...

All from British Transport Films.

How might those of us not in London see these?


No-one in London watches London Live either, it gets a staggering 0.05%
of the audience :-)

The first three are available to buy on DVD according to
http://www.britishtransportfilms.co.uk/. If you can't find them online
then I expect that the BFI shop will be able to get them for you.

--
David Cantrell | Bourgeois reactionary pig

The test of the goodness of a thing is its fitness for use. If it
fails on this first test, no amount of ornamentation or finish will
make it any better, it will only make it more expensive and foolish.
-- Frank Pick, lecture to the Design and Industries Assoc, 1916

Recliner[_3_] July 21st 15 03:37 PM

TV Programmes
 
David Cantrell wrote:
On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 05:46:32PM -0500, wrote:
In article , stuck@home
(Peter Able) wrote:

Several documentaries relating to transport and London coming up on
London Live:

25Jul15 1900: Terminus ...
01Aug15 1900: Capital Visit ...
01Aug15 1930: This Year - London ...
29Aug15 1900: Bridge of Song ...

All from British Transport Films.

How might those of us not in London see these?


No-one in London watches London Live either, it gets a staggering 0.05%
of the audience :-)


The amusing thing is that it gets prime position in the TV listings carried
by the Evening Standard. Before they stopped showing the embarrassing (R)
indicator for repeats, it was painfully apparent that whatever the channel
might be, Live it was not. Lebedev must have bought up all the old TV
programmes that even Dave couldn't run any more.

The rumours suggest that the channel won't be live in any sense of the word
by the end of the year.

Peter Able July 21st 15 04:44 PM

TV Programmes
 
On 21/07/2015 12:51, David Cantrell wrote:
On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 05:46:32PM -0500, wrote:
In article , stuck@home
(Peter Able) wrote:

Several documentaries relating to transport and London coming up on
London Live:

25Jul15 1900: Terminus ...
01Aug15 1900: Capital Visit ...
01Aug15 1930: This Year - London ...
29Aug15 1900: Bridge of Song ...

All from British Transport Films.

How might those of us not in London see these?


No-one in London watches London Live either, it gets a staggering 0.05%
of the audience :-)

The first three are available to buy on DVD according to
http://www.britishtransportfilms.co.uk/. If you can't find them online
then I expect that the BFI shop will be able to get them for you.


Well, here is a good reason for watching London Live, then. They are
also showing a season of the other films the Ealing Studios made. At
one time both the BBC and Channel 4 used to show such
out-of-the-mainstream items - before they became ratings-obsessed.
London Live may not last too long - but, personally, I'm grateful for
any initiative that gets this material before the public.

BTW, all four of the films mentioned are on BFI BTF DVDs - and they are
generally all much cheaper from other suppliers than directly from the
BFI :)

PA


[email protected] July 21st 15 05:01 PM

TV Programmes
 
In article ,
(David Cantrell) wrote:

On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 05:46:32PM -0500,
wrote:
In article ,
stuck@home (Peter Able) wrote:

Several documentaries relating to transport and London coming up on
London Live:

25Jul15 1900: Terminus ...
01Aug15 1900: Capital Visit ...
01Aug15 1930: This Year - London ...
29Aug15 1900: Bridge of Song ...

All from British Transport Films.

How might those of us not in London see these?


No-one in London watches London Live either, it gets a staggering 0.05%
of the audience :-)

The first three are available to buy on DVD according to
http://www.britishtransportfilms.co.uk/. If you can't find them online
then I expect that the BFI shop will be able to get them for you.


Thanks all. I was assuming they were to be broadcast free to air and maybe
on web sites, not being familiar with London Live. I'm not interested enough
to buy DVDs. It looks as if I'll be able to watch on their web site.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

Peter Able July 21st 15 05:07 PM

TV Programmes
 
On 21/07/2015 18:01, wrote:
In article ,
(David Cantrell) wrote:

On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 05:46:32PM -0500,
wrote:
In article ,
stuck@home (Peter Able) wrote:

Several documentaries relating to transport and London coming up on
London Live:

25Jul15 1900: Terminus ...
01Aug15 1900: Capital Visit ...
01Aug15 1930: This Year - London ...
29Aug15 1900: Bridge of Song ...

All from British Transport Films.
How might those of us not in London see these?


No-one in London watches London Live either, it gets a staggering 0.05%
of the audience :-)

The first three are available to buy on DVD according to
http://www.britishtransportfilms.co.uk/. If you can't find them online
then I expect that the BFI shop will be able to get them for you.


Thanks all. I was assuming they were to be broadcast free to air and maybe
on web sites, not being familiar with London Live. I'm not interested enough
to buy DVDs. It looks as if I'll be able to watch on their web site.


They will be FTA in London :)


[email protected] July 21st 15 05:54 PM

TV Programmes
 
In article , stuck@home
(Peter Able) wrote:

On 21/07/2015 18:01, wrote:
In article ,
(David Cantrell) wrote:

On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 05:46:32PM -0500,
wrote:
In article ,
stuck@home (Peter Able) wrote:

Several documentaries relating to transport and London coming up on
London Live:

25Jul15 1900: Terminus ...
01Aug15 1900: Capital Visit ...
01Aug15 1930: This Year - London ...
29Aug15 1900: Bridge of Song ...

All from British Transport Films.
How might those of us not in London see these?

No-one in London watches London Live either, it gets a staggering 0.05%
of the audience :-)

The first three are available to buy on DVD according to
http://www.britishtransportfilms.co.uk/. If you can't find them online
then I expect that the BFI shop will be able to get them for you.


Thanks all. I was assuming they were to be broadcast free to air and
maybe on web sites, not being familiar with London Live. I'm not
interested enough to buy DVDs. It looks as if I'll be able to watch on
their web site.


They will be FTA in London :)


I see it's channel 8 on Freeview. Is that only accessible in London

--
Colin Rosenstiel

Peter Able July 21st 15 07:08 PM

TV Programmes
 
On 21/07/2015 18:54, wrote:
In article , stuck@home
(Peter Able) wrote:

On 21/07/2015 18:01,
wrote:
In article ,
(David Cantrell) wrote:

On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 05:46:32PM -0500,
wrote:
In article ,
stuck@home (Peter Able) wrote:

Several documentaries relating to transport and London coming up on
London Live:

25Jul15 1900: Terminus ...
01Aug15 1900: Capital Visit ...
01Aug15 1930: This Year - London ...
29Aug15 1900: Bridge of Song ...

All from British Transport Films.
How might those of us not in London see these?

No-one in London watches London Live either, it gets a staggering 0.05%
of the audience :-)

The first three are available to buy on DVD according to
http://www.britishtransportfilms.co.uk/. If you can't find them online
then I expect that the BFI shop will be able to get them for you.

Thanks all. I was assuming they were to be broadcast free to air and
maybe on web sites, not being familiar with London Live. I'm not
interested enough to buy DVDs. It looks as if I'll be able to watch on
their web site.


They will be FTA in London :)


I see it's channel 8 on Freeview. Is that only accessible in London


Correct

michael adams[_7_] July 21st 15 08:19 PM

TV Programmes
 

wrote in message
...
In article , stuck@home
(Peter Able) wrote:

On 21/07/2015 18:01, wrote:
In article ,
(David Cantrell) wrote:

On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 05:46:32PM -0500,
wrote:
In article ,
stuck@home (Peter Able) wrote:

Several documentaries relating to transport and London coming up on
London Live:

25Jul15 1900: Terminus ...
01Aug15 1900: Capital Visit ...
01Aug15 1930: This Year - London ...
29Aug15 1900: Bridge of Song ...

All from British Transport Films.
How might those of us not in London see these?

No-one in London watches London Live either, it gets a staggering 0.05%
of the audience :-)

The first three are available to buy on DVD according to
http://www.britishtransportfilms.co.uk/. If you can't find them online
then I expect that the BFI shop will be able to get them for you.

Thanks all. I was assuming they were to be broadcast free to air and
maybe on web sites, not being familiar with London Live. I'm not
interested enough to buy DVDs. It looks as if I'll be able to watch on
their web site.


They will be FTA in London :)


I see it's channel 8 on Freeview. Is that only accessible in London


That probably depends on your proximity to an appropriate transmitter,
and/or how London is defined and the postioning of transmitters.
i.e if transmitters are positioned at the edge of the area then
presumably non-Londoners will benefit. If positioned more centrally
then possibly not. This may also involve rotating the aerial
towards a specific transmitter.

Possibly best posted in uk.tech.digital-tv


michael adams

....






Scott July 21st 15 08:53 PM

TV Programmes
 
On Tue, 21 Jul 2015 21:19:55 +0100, "michael adams"
wrote:


wrote in message
...
In article , stuck@home
(Peter Able) wrote:

On 21/07/2015 18:01, wrote:
In article ,
(David Cantrell) wrote:

On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 05:46:32PM -0500,
wrote:
In article ,
stuck@home (Peter Able) wrote:

Several documentaries relating to transport and London coming up on
London Live:

25Jul15 1900: Terminus ...
01Aug15 1900: Capital Visit ...
01Aug15 1930: This Year - London ...
29Aug15 1900: Bridge of Song ...

All from British Transport Films.
How might those of us not in London see these?

No-one in London watches London Live either, it gets a staggering 0.05%
of the audience :-)

The first three are available to buy on DVD according to
http://www.britishtransportfilms.co.uk/. If you can't find them online
then I expect that the BFI shop will be able to get them for you.

Thanks all. I was assuming they were to be broadcast free to air and
maybe on web sites, not being familiar with London Live. I'm not
interested enough to buy DVDs. It looks as if I'll be able to watch on
their web site.

They will be FTA in London :)


I see it's channel 8 on Freeview. Is that only accessible in London


That probably depends on your proximity to an appropriate transmitter,
and/or how London is defined and the postioning of transmitters.
i.e if transmitters are positioned at the edge of the area then
presumably non-Londoners will benefit. If positioned more centrally
then possibly not. This may also involve rotating the aerial
towards a specific transmitter.

Possibly best posted in uk.tech.digital-tv

It's not really a question of 'if'. The location of transmitters is a
matter of public record.

[email protected] July 21st 15 08:59 PM

TV Programmes
 
In article , adams) wrote:

wrote in message
...
In article ,
stuck@home (Peter Able) wrote:

On 21/07/2015 18:01,
wrote:
In article ,
(David Cantrell) wrote:

On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 05:46:32PM -0500,
wrote:


Thanks all. I was assuming they were to be broadcast free to air and
maybe on web sites, not being familiar with London Live. I'm not
interested enough to buy DVDs. It looks as if I'll be able to watch
on their web site.

They will be FTA in London :)


I see it's channel 8 on Freeview. Is that only accessible in London


That probably depends on your proximity to an appropriate transmitter,
and/or how London is defined and the postioning of transmitters.
i.e if transmitters are positioned at the edge of the area then
presumably non-Londoners will benefit. If positioned more centrally
then possibly not. This may also involve rotating the aerial
towards a specific transmitter.

Possibly best posted in uk.tech.digital-tv


I'm on the Sandy Heath transmitter so the internet is certainly my only
option.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

michael adams[_7_] July 21st 15 09:18 PM

TV Programmes
 

"Scott" wrote in message
...
On Tue, 21 Jul 2015 21:19:55 +0100, "michael adams"
wrote:


wrote in message
...
In article , stuck@home
(Peter Able) wrote:

On 21/07/2015 18:01, wrote:
In article ,
(David Cantrell) wrote:

On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 05:46:32PM -0500,
wrote:
In article ,
stuck@home (Peter Able) wrote:

Several documentaries relating to transport and London coming up on
London Live:

25Jul15 1900: Terminus ...
01Aug15 1900: Capital Visit ...
01Aug15 1930: This Year - London ...
29Aug15 1900: Bridge of Song ...

All from British Transport Films.
How might those of us not in London see these?

No-one in London watches London Live either, it gets a staggering 0.05%
of the audience :-)

The first three are available to buy on DVD according to
http://www.britishtransportfilms.co.uk/. If you can't find them online
then I expect that the BFI shop will be able to get them for you.

Thanks all. I was assuming they were to be broadcast free to air and
maybe on web sites, not being familiar with London Live. I'm not
interested enough to buy DVDs. It looks as if I'll be able to watch on
their web site.

They will be FTA in London :)

I see it's channel 8 on Freeview. Is that only accessible in London


That probably depends on your proximity to an appropriate transmitter,
and/or how London is defined and the postioning of transmitters.
i.e if transmitters are positioned at the edge of the area then
presumably non-Londoners will benefit. If positioned more centrally
then possibly not. This may also involve rotating the aerial
towards a specific transmitter.

Possibly best posted in uk.tech.digital-tv

It's not really a question of 'if'. The location of transmitters is a
matter of public record.


Which is totally irrelevant to the question as to how London may or may
not be defined, for present purposes. Along with the signal strength of
the transmitters, which may nor may not, for all I know, also be of
relevance, depending on the OP's exact location.

Hence the 'if'.


michael adams

....



Iain Archer[_2_] July 21st 15 10:00 PM

TV Programmes
 
Scott wrote on Tue, 21 Jul 2015 at
21:53:00:
On Tue, 21 Jul 2015 21:19:55 +0100, "michael adams"
wrote:


wrote in message
...
In article , stuck@home
(Peter Able) wrote:

On 21/07/2015 18:01, wrote:
In article ,
(David Cantrell) wrote:

On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 05:46:32PM -0500,
wrote:
In article ,
stuck@home (Peter Able) wrote:

Several documentaries relating to transport and London coming up on
London Live:

25Jul15 1900: Terminus ...
01Aug15 1900: Capital Visit ...
01Aug15 1930: This Year - London ...
29Aug15 1900: Bridge of Song ...

All from British Transport Films.
How might those of us not in London see these?

No-one in London watches London Live either, it gets a staggering 0.05%
of the audience :-)


Hey. Up to double that at times.
http://www.ukfree.tv/channels/channel/LONDONL

I've been watching some of the old Ealing stuff. There was a train
crash
story today. And I see they're reshowing the Tube series from 31
August.

John Schlesinger's Terminus (1961) about Waterloo next Saturday is in
their BFI Archive slot. It's also viewable online at
http://player.bfi.org.uk/britain-on-film/.


The first three are available to buy on DVD according to
http://www.britishtransportfilms.co.uk/. If you can't find them online
then I expect that the BFI shop will be able to get them for you.

Thanks all. I was assuming they were to be broadcast free to air and
maybe on web sites, not being familiar with London Live. I'm not
interested enough to buy DVDs. It looks as if I'll be able to watch on
their web site.

They will be FTA in London :)

I see it's channel 8 on Freeview. Is that only accessible in London


That probably depends on your proximity to an appropriate transmitter,
and/or how London is defined and the postioning of transmitters.
i.e if transmitters are positioned at the edge of the area then
presumably non-Londoners will benefit. If positioned more centrally
then possibly not. This may also involve rotating the aerial
towards a specific transmitter.

Possibly best posted in uk.tech.digital-tv

It's not really a question of 'if'. The location of transmitters is a
matter of public record.


From Crystal Palace (S.London) it's broadcast on Mux LW at 20kW, which
is a tenth of the power used by the main muxes.
http://www.ukfree.tv/transmitters/tv/Crystal_Palace
--
Iain Archer

Mizter T July 21st 15 10:11 PM

TV Programmes
 

On 21/07/2015 18:54, wrote:

In article , stuck@home
(Peter Able) wrote:
[...]
Thanks all. I was assuming they were to be broadcast free to air and
maybe on web sites, not being familiar with London Live. I'm not
interested enough to buy DVDs. It looks as if I'll be able to watch on
their web site.


They will be FTA in London :)


I see it's channel 8 on Freeview. Is that only accessible in London


Yep. But come August you'll have "Cambridge TV" on freeview channel 8. I
dare say it'll be as stunningly successful and revolutionary as all the
other local TV services that have launched in the past year...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_television_in_the_United_Kingdom

[email protected] July 21st 15 11:34 PM

TV Programmes
 
In article , (Iain Archer)
wrote:

John Schlesinger's Terminus (1961) about Waterloo next Saturday is in
their BFI Archive slot. It's also viewable online at
http://player.bfi.org.uk/britain-on-film/.


Sounds like the simplest option for that BFI film but not the other BTF ones.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

[email protected] July 21st 15 11:34 PM

TV Programmes
 
In article , (Mizter T) wrote:

On 21/07/2015 18:54,
wrote:

In article ,
stuck@home (Peter Able) wrote:
[...]
Thanks all. I was assuming they were to be broadcast free to air and
maybe on web sites, not being familiar with London Live. I'm not
interested enough to buy DVDs. It looks as if I'll be able to watch on
their web site.

They will be FTA in London :)


I see it's channel 8 on Freeview. Is that only accessible in London


Yep. But come August you'll have "Cambridge TV" on freeview channel
8. I dare say it'll be as stunningly successful and revolutionary as
all the other local TV services that have launched in the past year...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_television_in_the_United_Kingdom


That'll be nice then. Fortunately Madingley and Sandy Heath are in the same
direction from our TV aerial.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

Roland Perry July 22nd 15 07:32 AM

TV Programmes
 
In message , at 23:11:25 on Tue, 21 Jul
2015, Mizter T remarked:

come August you'll have "Cambridge TV" on freeview channel 8.


http://www.dawe.co.uk/future/
--
Roland Perry

David Cantrell July 22nd 15 12:39 PM

TV Programmes
 
On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 03:37:23PM +0000, Recliner wrote:
David Cantrell wrote:
No-one in London watches London Live either, it gets a staggering 0.05%
of the audience :-)

The amusing thing is that it gets prime position in the TV listings carried
by the Evening Standard.


That's because they're both owned by the same person.

--
David Cantrell | Pope | First Church of the Symmetrical Internet

Blessed are the pessimists, for they test their backups

David Cantrell July 22nd 15 12:51 PM

TV Programmes
 
On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 09:19:55PM +0100, michael adams wrote:
wrote:
I see it's channel 8 on Freeview. Is that only accessible in London


Channel 8 is, I believe, reserved for local TV. So the channel is
available nationally, the particular broadcaster is not.

That probably depends on your proximity to an appropriate transmitter,
and/or how London is defined and the postioning of transmitters.


It's broadcast from Crystal Palace, just like the London-specific
opt-outs on BBC and ITV. Here's a coverage map:
http://www.ukfree.tv/maps/tvregions/15

--
David Cantrell | top google result for "topless karaoke murders"

Featu an incorrectly implemented bug

Recliner[_3_] July 22nd 15 02:41 PM

TV Programmes
 
David Cantrell wrote:
On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 03:37:23PM +0000, Recliner wrote:
David Cantrell wrote:
No-one in London watches London Live either, it gets a staggering 0.05%
of the audience :-)

The amusing thing is that it gets prime position in the TV listings carried
by the Evening Standard.


That's because they're both owned by the same person.


I know!


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