Tag Archives: DOCUMENTARY

Pothole Wars- A review.

Posted on January 20, 2019 by SCARFMAN

What better way to help banish away those January winter blues than to air a documentary about …potholes??? It has to be said that BBC1 do the first bit of this rather well, what with their picturesque detective drama Death … Continue reading →

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INSIDE THE FOREIGN OFFICE : EPISODE ONE REVIEW – KEEPING POWER AND INFLUENCE.

Posted on November 23, 2018 by SCARFMAN

As far as political documentaries go, this first instalment of Inside the Foreign Office has to be right up there with the very best ones to have graced our TV screens in 2018. Made by film-maker Michael Waldman over an … Continue reading →

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Home Front Heroes – Series 1 : Episode 1.

Posted on November 12, 2018 by SCARFMAN

In the run up to Remembrance Day this year the BBC has made a new daytime TV series entitled Home Front Heroes. The primary purpose of it is to celebrate the selfless contributions that thousands of men and women made … Continue reading →

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Made in Great Britain – Series 1: 1. Steel

Posted on November 3, 2018 by SCARFMAN

”You have to know the past to understand the present”. This is a famous quote by Dr. Carl Sagan. It is used here because it beautifully encapsulates the approach taken in this impressive new BBC2 historical documentary series entitled, Made … Continue reading →

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PRINCESS MARGARET: THE REBEL ROYAL, episode one.

Posted on September 16, 2018 by SCARFMAN

When the BBC was formed in 1922, its now well-known guiding principles were to inform, educate and entertain the British public. Today, it still strives to achieve these three Reithian commandments against a competitive backdrop of niche broadcasting. A brilliant … Continue reading →

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Fight Like a Girl: review.

Posted on June 16, 2018 by SCARFMAN

As thirty minute documentaries go this wasn’t a bad effort at all. As part of BBC1’s Our Lives, it focused on the life of Glaswegian, Kimberly Benson. Kim being twenty-six years old and said to be Scotland’s most popular female … Continue reading →

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MAFIA WOMEN WITH TREVOR McDONALD : FASCINATING AND POIGNANT! A review, episode one.

Posted on February 19, 2017 by SCARFMAN

As a follow-up to when Sir Trevor McDonald looked back at some of the lives of former members of La Cosa Nostra, here in this first part of two documentaries he now looked at some of the women in their … Continue reading →

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AN ASHAMED, INTROSPECTIVE AND HOODWINKED LOUIS! ‘Louis Theroux – Savile’. A review.

Posted on October 7, 2016 by SCARFMAN

This was a BBC Two documentary by Louis Theroux with a difference. Never before have we seen him revisit one of his earlier programmes. First aired fifteen years ago, he looked back at the documentary he did with the now … Continue reading →

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THE ANT AND DEC OF FOOTBALL…….SORT OF! ‘Class of ’92: Out of Their League. Series 2, episode 1 review.

Posted on August 31, 2016 by SCARFMAN

Television sports documentaries do not get much better than this. I loved the first series last year and thoroughly enjoyed the recent opening episode of series two. It focuses on the goings on at semi-professional football side Salford City FC, … Continue reading →

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Versus : The Life and Films of Ken Loach. A REVIEW. ‘A celebration of the KING and LEGEND of British Film’!

Posted on August 3, 2016 by SCARFMAN

Just as this biographical documentary about British film director Ken Loach was about to start, I feared it was going to be about as thrilling to watch as an episode of The South Bank Show with Melvyn Bragg. Such a reservation … Continue reading →

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Tag Archives: DOCUMENTARY

INSIDE THE FOREIGN OFFICE : EPISODE ONE REVIEW – KEEPING POWER AND INFLUENCE.

Home Front Heroes – Series 1 : Episode 1.

Made in Great Britain – Series 1: 1. Steel

PRINCESS MARGARET: THE REBEL ROYAL, episode one.

Fight Like a Girl: review.

MAFIA WOMEN WITH TREVOR McDONALD : FASCINATING AND POIGNANT! A review, episode one.

AN ASHAMED, INTROSPECTIVE AND HOODWINKED LOUIS! ‘Louis Theroux – Savile’. A review.

THE ANT AND DEC OF FOOTBALL…….SORT OF! ‘Class of ’92: Out of Their League. Series 2, episode 1 review.

Versus : The Life and Films of Ken Loach. A REVIEW. ‘A celebration of the KING and LEGEND of British Film’!

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