Spotlight, the BBC's Regional News programme in the South West of England. Normally on at 13:30 , 18:30 and 22:30 on BBC as well as bulletins every half hour from 06:30 - 09:00. Weekend times may vary.
This is the second time I’ve seen this film. It’s fascinating to watch, as much for the people and their interactions as for the wonderful places here in Devon and Cornwall. Fills me with nostalgia, even though I wasn’t born till 15 years after the film was made. 😊
Bloody hell, young ‘Jack’ is covering more miles on his run ashore than the bloody Royal Marines did in the Falklands campaign. But wasn’t life so simple…
I met authentic mules du Poitou last year and they are astounding. Genetically they are very special because they accumulate only the good genes and combine them. So everything is super about them: their health, their coat and hooves (extra hard), their character. Their pace is also extraordinary, they move around in a very elastic feline manner. Incredible animals
This is an eloquent and thoughtful piece from PT. But I'm not sure about the interviewer. "Life being cicular/cycular"? You cannot just invent words.... Well, most people can't.
Thank you so much for posting this. It is lovely... but at 4:45 there is reference to horror:. the totally unsympathetic people unfriendly proto-soviet proto fascist American motor city 'replanned ' by vicious Abercombie. But, thankfully , that is only mentioned briefly and from then on the film is lovely and gentle and there are some very nice parts .. the train , life in the villages . So sad the line was closed. Such beauty lost, such nostalgia. I was eight and living in Plymouth in 1954 My mother was in the WRNS and in the Plymouth blitz. Overall a lovely film.
Born in 1973, I remember good old England/Plymouth. I now live on Mutley Upon Africa. I can walk from one end of the plain to the other & not hear English being spoken!
If I may quote Bruce Forsyth from the Generation Game "Didn't he do well ?" Lovely to be able to see the fit slender young man of 20 now a more solid gentleman of 80 odd years having risen through the Naval ranks to a well deserved retirement. Great stuff and well done researchers in finding Lt Com Wyatt RN retired
What a precious jewel of a film. I was 2 years old when it was made and watching this has taken me right back. to those days Wonderful filming and a gentle, informative commentary. I also particularly like the music backing - a theme and variations of some sort - I wish I knew what it was. The Sailor looks a lovely likeable lad and I wonder what became of him in later life. All in all this film captures an innocence that seems to have long disappeared from British life and certainly from the current PC BBC where anything goes except decency.
Townshend is regularly accused of being over-the-top. But I’m pleased he had the humility to decide The Who to play a supporting role in Quadrophenia concept as the soundtrack. It was Jimmy and this fucking Bellboy in the leads. Those identities colliding resonated deeply in me as a very young man in the 80s. The Who kept the energy and context moving along.
Top notch historical documentary. This is the first time I've seen the full length 'version'. Good to see a glimpse of Cornwall, having recently discovered a genealogy link.
Great to see Ivor Doble featured in the video. My Grandfather worked for him for 40 years as a clock maker/repair. A true gentleman and also a former chairman of Exeter City FC. RIP Ivor.
