Re: Pre RLWC TV : Thu Nov 14, 2013 7:14 pm  

After staying clear of Masterchef for a couple of years I've been pleasantly enjoying the current series of Masterchef:The Professionals.
Greg Wallace is still a bit of a tool but always enjoy Michel Roux Jr cooking a classic.

Re: Pre RLWC TV : Thu Nov 14, 2013 7:18 pm  

I've missed the Sky Arts Portrait Competition so far

However have just caught the fact that episode 2 is repeated tonight and have set the series record for it - just need to patch episode 1 together from YouTube clips

Re: Pre RLWC TV : Thu Nov 14, 2013 7:23 pm  

JerryChicken wrote:

I've missed the Sky Arts Portrait Competition so far

However have just caught the fact that episode 2 is repeated tonight and have set the series record for it - just need to patch episode 1 together from YouTube clips

I see a fourth series of 24 Hours in A&E commenced last night JC.
Thoroughly enjoyed the first couple of series but overkill fatigue has began to set in.

Re: Pre RLWC TV : Thu Nov 14, 2013 7:32 pm  

WIZEB wrote:

I see a fourth series of 24 Hours in A&E commenced last night JC.
Thoroughly enjoyed the first couple of series but overkill fatigue has began to set in.

Yep, watched it last night, I'd still loved to have worked in A&E but my life skills won't be much use to them

After spending literally the whole of one Friday night in the LGI A&E department a year ago this month (11pm to 5am) I can only sympathise with the staff and hope that the TV program shows more of the crap they have to put up with in the waiting area, including the police officers who are now based there permanently.

Re: Pre RLWC TV : Thu Nov 14, 2013 7:37 pm  

JerryChicken wrote:

Yep, watched it last night, I'd still loved to have worked in A&E but my life skills won't be much use to them

After spending literally the whole of one Friday night in the LGI A&E department a year ago this month (11pm to 5am)

Has that big hard man had his comeuppance yet?

Re: Pre RLWC TV : Thu Nov 14, 2013 8:17 pm  

I saw quite a few who thought they were big and hard by being handcuffed to a police officer, sometimes two police officers, then again I got to go home afterwards and they didn't

Re: Pre RLWC TV : Sat Nov 16, 2013 10:19 am  

Suppose I will have to give Black Swan a whirl on C4+1 after the England game seeing as I aint seen it as yet.

Re: Pre RLWC TV : Sun Nov 24, 2013 6:11 pm  

Not for the faint hearted but the moving human story of a sufferer of Motor Neurone Disease is covered in the documentary I Am Breathing on Film4 tonight. Tough topic but not worth missing. http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/i-am-breathing-2013

Not for the faint hearted but the moving human story of a sufferer of Motor Neurone Disease is covered in the documentary I Am Breathing on Film4 tonight. Tough topic but not worth missing. http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/i-am-breathing-2013

Re: Pre RLWC TV : Sun Nov 24, 2013 6:47 pm  

Might be a bit of an obvious one, but if you've got Sky you can get The Wire on demand. I missed it when it first came out and have only just started watching it. I say started, I've got into it that much I've been watching 2 or 3 episodes a night so am up to Series 3 already!

Re: Pre RLWC TV : Mon Nov 25, 2013 7:12 am  

For a bit of wireless (wireless in the old fashioned sense) listening I keep returning time and again to http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/desert-island-discs the online archive of 1500+ episodes of Desert Island Discs not in the least because they offer an insight into how far Radio 4 has come since just a few decades ago - Roy Plomley's very snooty treatment of Daley Thompson for instance compared to how he fawned over Princess Grace of Monaco or Frank Muir (who in turn isn't at all like you'd expect him to be). Yesterday I randomly picked out Nigel Slater and Nigella Lawson (pre marital split) who both had tragedies to speak of, Nigel Slater in particular offered a lot of personal information to Sue Lawley and sounds like he is quite a complicated character still, 'twas a very good 45 minutes or so.

For a bit of wireless (wireless in the old fashioned sense) listening I keep returning time and again to http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/desert-island-discs the online archive of 1500+ episodes of Desert Island Discs not in the least because they offer an insight into how far Radio 4 has come since just a few decades ago - Roy Plomley's very snooty treatment of Daley Thompson for instance compared to how he fawned over Princess Grace of Monaco or Frank Muir (who in turn isn't at all like you'd expect him to be). Yesterday I randomly picked out Nigel Slater and Nigella Lawson (pre marital split) who both had tragedies to speak of, Nigel Slater in particular offered a lot of personal information to Sue Lawley and sounds like he is quite a complicated character still, 'twas a very good 45 minutes or so.