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| rynner Location: Still above sea level Gender: Male |
 Posted: 11-01-2003 10:10 Post subject: TV and Radio Reminders |
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This thread is for reminders only, and out-dated posts will be removed from time to time.
To comment on Programmes, please find a thread elsewhere, or start a new one. Thanks - rynner
This is just a suggestion, but perhaps this thread would be more useful if reminders were posted no more than say 48 hours before the progs are aired. Too many reminders at a time tend to swamp the most pressing ones! (This is why I try to keep this thread pruned regularly.)
[Emp edit: I'm going to try and keep this thread running so it can deal with things a week in advance so posts will be editted into one single entry for each day.]
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escargot1 Joined: 24 Aug 2001 Total posts: 17896 Location: Farkham Hall Age: 4 Gender: Female |
| Posted: 20-09-2013 07:15 Post subject: |
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The Uncanny on BBC R4 Listen Again:
| Quote: | It's that sense of unease or disquiet at the heart of ghost fiction and horror writing, the stuff of bad dreams when the familiar is suddenly strange, a feeling of a place being unsettlingly out of place. The uncanny is everywhere.
So why is it that the familiar, or that which is closest to home, can be so much more frightening to us than the truly exotic or unknown? Freud's extraordinary essay The Uncanny, from 1919, is like nothing else he wrote. It's a translation of the German 'un-heimlich' meaning 'not homely' or 'a feeling of not being at home'. But the term itself is strange. In German its meaning can shift so 'uncanny/un-heimlich' can be read, eerily, as 'homely but not at home' - a disquieting ambiguity.
Freud tries to unravel that sense of the 'uncanny' that he sees everywhere in popular art and culture: in the fiction of Poe and E.T.A. Hoffman, in life-like puppets and mannequins which for a second we think are real, in doppelgangers and doubles, in the strange feeling of getting lost in a familiar place.
He was arguably onto something. The uncanny really is discernible everywhere in fiction, film and art - from Mary Shelly to Asimov, from Invasion of the Body Snatchers to the Chapman Brothers. This atmospheric
programme explores the power of the Uncanny in our culture - in all its strange, unsettling manifestations.
Presented by Hugh Haughton. Contributors include author A.S. Byatt, artists the Chapman Brothers, writer and actor Mark Gatiss and psychotherapist Adam Phillips. |
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Great Old One Joined: 13 Dec 2008 Total posts: 21365 Location: Under the moon Gender: Male |
| Posted: 13-10-2013 11:18 Post subject: |
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The Da Vinci Code: The True Story
Channel 5
Series 5, Episode 5
Today on Channel 5 from 8:00pm to 9:00pm
The film of Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code, about the two thousand-year-old battle between a mysterious secret society and the orthodox church, enthralled and enraged in equal measure. Is there any truth to this sensational story? This documentary investigates whether or not there was an intimate relationship between Jesus and Mary Magdalene and also visits the ancient, carved Rosslyn Chapel in Scotland, which featured prominently in director Ron Howard's box office hit. |
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