T4tomo
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The high board?🤣
What TV are you watching?
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The high board?🤣
MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
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- Lancaster... the little city.
Not impressed with the catch-up Olympic coverage on iPlayer... I would have liked to watch the skateboarding but all i can find is a 14 minute snippet of the women's event. 
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AndyRM
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Not impressed with the catch-up Olympic coverage on iPlayer... I would have liked to watch the skateboarding but all i can find is a 14 minute snippet of the women's event.
The highlights haven't been great. And what they're advertising as being on doesn't seem to catch up in real time.
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AndyRM
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- North Shields
And now they've just cut from the hockey to tennis at half time, having told viewers to go to BBC1, which has swimming heats...
MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
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- Lancaster... the little city.
It seems with some events you can either watch live on iPlayer or not at all. I'm sure four years ago every event was available as catch-up on iPlayer.
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AndyRM
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- North Shields
Yeah that's what I remember too. I also remember the Channel 4 coverage of the Paralympics being terrible.
Badger_Boom
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- York
I think it's got something to do with broadcast rights. Gone are the days of national PSBs getting the right to show everything in full.
biggs682
Itching to get back on my bike's
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- Northamptonshire
Watched the last two episodes of High Country last night, been good and a twist at the end
biggs682
Itching to get back on my bike's
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We enjoyed it
Richard A Thackeray
Legendary Member
Last night, just by chance
An episode of 'Inspector George Gently'
Series 5/episode 1
'Gently Northern Soul'
About the murder of a young black girl, after she left a Northern Soul evening
It was a good plot, with many twists & turns, and misdirections as to the killer (& a twist in the tale)
I recognised one of the cast (John Bowler) as having played a Chief Superintendant in another Police 'procedural' programme; WPC 56', who was an equally nasty charactor in that!
A big question formed in my head though
When this was set, as shown by the Police Officers listening to the Enoch Powelll 'Rivers Of Blood' speech, on the radio (1968, according to wikipedia), would 'Northern Soul' have been a 'thing'/craze?
One 'goof' was when DS Bacchus was chasing a suspect through a scrapyard, he passed a building with UPVC double-glazed windows!!
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2326126/?ref_=ttep_ep1
An episode of 'Inspector George Gently'
Series 5/episode 1
'Gently Northern Soul'
About the murder of a young black girl, after she left a Northern Soul evening
It was a good plot, with many twists & turns, and misdirections as to the killer (& a twist in the tale)
I recognised one of the cast (John Bowler) as having played a Chief Superintendant in another Police 'procedural' programme; WPC 56', who was an equally nasty charactor in that!
A big question formed in my head though
When this was set, as shown by the Police Officers listening to the Enoch Powelll 'Rivers Of Blood' speech, on the radio (1968, according to wikipedia), would 'Northern Soul' have been a 'thing'/craze?
One 'goof' was when DS Bacchus was chasing a suspect through a scrapyard, he passed a building with UPVC double-glazed windows!!
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2326126/?ref_=ttep_ep1
Chislenko
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Northern gained some traction in the early to mid sixties. The Twisted Wheel (Manchester) stated 1963, The Torch (Stoke) stated 1965. Obviously there were other clubs (Va Va in Bolton I think may have been open at that time as well) so plenty of Northern about in the mid sixties.
Richard A Thackeray
Legendary Member
Yes, in terms of the music itself, but would that 'name' have been used??
Chislenko
Veteran
Yes, you are right to question that, the term itself was first coined by London record store owner Dave Godin in 1970 and the episode in question is set in 1968!
