They just don't make docus like this anymore...look at the angles from which they film, which, with the music, are like short films by today's low-budget "bare minimum" standards.
I remember watching this with my grandfather,back in the 1980,s on wgbh boston. this was a great sires and i am glad to see it up up hear, thank you the poster verty much, and God bless you
Michael Frayn is alive and in his early eighties... I remember BBC Points Of View at the time poking fun at how many times Michael gets his kit off in the film! Sky's music is great too...
This is one of many BBC TV series which remains annoyingly unavailable on DVD. I think it's time a campaign was organized to badger the BBC into issuing these old programs. Maybe I should start an online petition (if I knew how)?
This seems too have been shot in 2020, despite lack of face 😷. Some great comments from an Economist entailed in dramatic, purple prose. Well done Beeb, last century.
Ross Campbell, who sees Michael Frayn off from Central Station in Sydney, was a newspaper columnist and father of Laura 'Little Nell' Campbell, who was in 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show' and later became a New York nightclub proprietor. He would write humorous columns about his family in which she was called 'Little Nell' from the character in Dickens' 'The Old Curiosity Shop'.
Kilometers and miles are different units of length. A kilometer is about 2/3rds of a mile. Therefore, 2500 miles is roughly the same distance as 4000 kilometers and if he said 2500 miles then thy is the same as saying 4000 kilometers and he is not wrong on the distance.
Can anyone tell me the name of the piece of music during the first few minutes, I know it's by Sky but I've never been able to find out more than that?
The episode opens with "Where Opposites Meet" (about 3.13 onward) from the album "Sky 1" In fact, most of the music in this episode comes from this track, with the exception of the sequence where they visit the diamond mine, which is the track "Danza" from the same album, and the journey to Alice Springs on The Ghan, which plays to the beautifully haunting "Dance of the Little Fairies" from their second album, "Sky 2"
@kguen6993 They do ... and it certainly does take three days ... AND once you are out in desert country, the doors of the carriages are locked at night so nobody is lost if they have to stop for any reason.
Last hills to climb for 2500 miles, C'mon man what are you talking about? The Indian Pacific enters into the Flinders Ranges just north of Crystal Brook
Its got to be said, we Aussie borrowed all that technology from the Brits. They were building viaducts, steel and concrete bridges through marshlands when we were designing the corked swaggy hat. Those among us who join the anti-colonial whinge should remember that. We inherited the rule of law and Westminster government, and all that fantastic technology of the Victorian age from the UK.
