Dodge the summer rain showers this week and put on your laughing gear for The Peoples Theatre production of Dad’s Army -The Stage Show which plays from tomorrow (July 10th) through to Saturday 14th July. This show is adapted from Jimmy Perry and David Croft’s immortal TV show, which runs eternally on the BBC and [...]
The Wright Stuff – Wright Here
Apart from the Marina, and the monkey, Alan Wright is another one of Hartlepool’s treasures. Well known over the North East as a columnist for the Hartlepool Mail and broadcaster for the BBC he has entertained throughout the region with his wicked sense of humour and professionalism. When Durham County’s Cricket Ground was built on [...]
Earthflight – DVD
The flight of birds has fired mankind’s imagination throughout history. Their ability to defy gravity and look down on the world has intrigued everyone from Leonardo Di Vinci to the Wright brothers who pulled off the first manned flight of an aeroplane at the beginning of the Twentieth century. Within 60 years of that momentous [...]
Coast and Beyond (Series 6)
The British Isles are a collection of islands with thousands of miles of coast fronting out into the Atlantic Ocean, Irish Sea and the English Channel.The people that have occupied these islands have been moulded by this interaction between land and water.A bright television executive realising that fact commissioned a show which told that story.So [...]
Canal Walks with Julia Bradbury
‘Get Your Walking Boots On’ This new DVD presented and walked by Julia Bradbury gives inspiration to admire and appreciate what is around us all, everywhere. The poet W.H.Auden once remarked “You cannot eat a view but its presence can feed the soul and lift the spirits”. Desk bound on a dull day, the kids [...]
Spring Term at Waterloo Road
Tom Browns Schooldays hasn’t got a look in. Byker Grove was getting there, but Waterloo Road puts the icing on the cake. Originally commissioned for the BBC in 2006 it seemed no one was really prepared for the success story that would follow the tales, trials and tribulations of students and staff at the now [...]
Brassy Women
Brassy Ladies’ Band on The Run. Set in the sixties in a parallel world to the swinging one, a family of sisters set out in a great big adventure in the exclusively alpha-male domain of brass band competitions . All of the girls have what we now call issues – useless boyfriends, a headbanger father, [...]
Eric Coates For your delight
Eric Coates, composer of the famous Dam Busters theme is a somewhat forgotten figure today but in his day was the master of concert halls and dominated the early days of radio. The BBC was an early champion of his work, featuring, ‘Knightsbridge’ from his London suite for the radio programme ‘In Town Tonight’ and [...]