It’s BBC Four’s The Art of Gothic: Britain’s Midnight Hour (2014)! “Andrew Graham-Dixon explores how a group of 19th-century architects and artists spurned the modern age and turned to Britain’s medieval past to create iconic works and buildings.” Watch here.
There’s a full documentary on horror in 1968 that you can enjoy on BBC Archive right now! It includes interviews with Christopher Lee, Barbara Steele, Terry Nation, Screaming Lord Sutch and Ray Harryhausen. “Many people enjoy being scared and will happily pay for the pleasure of being frightened […]
The BBC Archive has a clip of Tolkien talking about The Lord Of The Rings. “JRR Tolkien speaks to John Ezard about his extraordinarily popular Lord of the Rings series of fantasy novels. The author touches upon their genesis and themes, his fondness for invented languages – and […]
BBC Archive has a look at very early television! “A survey of BBC television production during the first six months since its official launch in 1936. Introduced by Leslie Mitchell, Jasmine Bligh and Elizabeth Cowell. Programme excerpts include: artist John Piper reviewing the work of Thomas Gainsborough, Pablo […]
Hey, it’s a BBC Cymru / Wales Radio production a Modesty Blaise adventure starring Daphne Alexander! Listen here.
At BFI, Adam Scovell explores locations used in the classic BBC Ghost Stories for Christmas. “Particularly in the 1970s adaptations, location filming added to the atmospheric appeal. From windswept landscapes to haunted cathedrals, many a viewer’s Christmas was haunted by the evocative visuals of East Anglian plains and […]
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