Yet another random post...

[lost_spook]

...this time about things the BBC have in their archive and I wish would share with me. Well, everyone, obviously, but especially me. (Partly made because last time I did this, I discovered that against all the odds what I wanted was on YouTube.... This is not the same, however, as Things the BBC Once Had in Their Archive and have Since Wiped/

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[lost_spook]

Yes, you are totally JUDGING me for not caring about the dodgy beards. I can tell. ;-D (Actually, there haven't been many yet, but then I haven't watched Henry IV, either part.) And better-budget, yes, not necessarily always better-actor versions. (I mean, Michael Hordern, Derek Jacobi, Patrick Stewart, Helen Mirren, Zoe Wanamaker, Annette Crosbie, Donald Sinden, John Cleese to pick a few off the top of my head - it's not exactly second-best casting). And, aww, thank you. Also, maybe I will do a review post sometime and confess that the only one I didn't like so much was the really well-regarded one that won all the BAFTAs! I have no taste. :lol:

ETA: Of those I have watched so far, which is actually only about 5. It just feels like more, because I have to go slow and I watched Julius Caesar twice.

And LOL. You noticed him. You are okay with David Collings until you notice him.... That was my fault. I'm sorry. Also you should totally watch the BBC Julius Caesar sometime did I mention that before? When you are up to slow stuff where everybody dies at the end.

[wytchcroft]

you really must check out the Sophocles Oedipus plays with Tony Quayle and Juliet Stevenson and the King Lear with Olivier and Diana Rigg and a starry dozen or so others.

they're all up there too somewhere.

[lost_spook]

Yes, I'd seen that was on YouTube - I'm just not very good at watching stuff online at the moment. I have tried a few things, but generally I'm better off not, for the present.

But thank you for the recs! I shall note them - aargh, my to-watch list is going to last me for a good long time, I can see...

:-)