The first recording today starts with the end of the London News.
There’s a trail for the Reading and Leeds Festival.
Then, CBBC starts with en episode of Jackanory Junior – The Last Polar Bears read by Martin Clunes.
Media Centre Description: Martin Clunes tells Harry Horse’s story of a journey to the North Pole with a penguin, a golf bag and Roo the dog to find the last polar bears.
Recorded from BBC ONE on Thursday 23rd August 2007 15:23
BBC Genome: BBC ONE Thursday 23rd August 2007 15:25
After this, there’s a trail for Desperados.
Then the recording stops during an episode of The Cramp Twins.
The next recording is a repeat showing of this episode, on the CBeebies channel.
Jackanory Junior – The Last Polar Bears
Media Centre Description: Martin Clunes tells Harry Horse’s story of a journey to the North Pole with a penguin, a golf bag and Roo the dog to find the last polar bears.
Recorded from CBeebies on Thursday 23rd August 2007 17:13
BBC Genome: CBeebies Thursday 23rd August 2007 17:15
There’s a CBeebies trailer that’s similar to one I showed from October 2006, but it’s been updated a bit, and I know how the CBeebies fans on YouTube love their bits and pieces.
Talking of CBeebies bits and pieces, there’s another bit of Jakers Capers with Sid.
Then the recording stops after a few minutes of Jakers!
The next recording starts with a bit of Channel 5 news.
Then, the penultimate episode of season three of House – The Jerk. A really obnoxious teenager wins a chess game, gloating over his opponent, then grabs the time clock and starts beating his opponent with it. He stops when his head starts hurting really badly.
He’s rude and obnoxious to everyone, starting with Chase.
His mother wonders whether the illness might be what’s causing his obnoxious behaviour. She feels like she must be responsible for him being an arsehole.
Foreman gives him Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation which frankly sounds a little bit made up. What am I saying, almost all of this could be made up and I wouldn’t know the difference.
House is spending a lot of time taunting Foreman because he’s leaving. I know House is canonically an arsehole but I wish he wasn’t so much of one.
Foreman had a job interview lined up in New York, but it didn’t happen because “apparently I called to cancel”. He assumes that House did it, but House denies it.
House accuses Cuddy of trying to derail Foreman’s job interview. She denies it.
House gives Nate magic mushrooms to treat his brain issues. He rather zones out.
He also hits on Cameron, and flashes her, which is helpful, as she notices that his testicles are unusually small, so that’s another symptom.
Cuddy offers Foreman lots more money and his own diagnostic practice, so he won’t be working for House. He turns her down.
Cuddy confronts Wilson, thinking he must have sabotaged Foreman’s job interview to protect House. He says it wasn’t him.
House sees a patient with sunburn but strange markings. It doesn’t take House long to diagnose that his young sun put coins on his father’s chest when he had a snooze on the boat.
Nate has another symptom, blood in his urine, a sign of kidney failure.
Wilson asks Cameron if she was the one who sabotaged Foreman. She says it wasn’t her.
Then Cameron asks Chase, and he denies it too.
House wants to stress Nate to see if that affects his symptoms, so he challenges himself to speed chess. Nate taunts him like he dod the player at the start, explaining how House has already lost, but before they can finish the game, he has a seizure.
Chase talks to House. “You sabotaged Foreman’s job interview, didn’t you?” “Foreman’s already been over this. It wasn’t me.” “Everybody’s chasing ghosts over this. Which means either nobody did it, or somebody wants everybody chasing ghosts. Now, who does that sound like?”
House finally diagnoses Nate with Haemochromatosis caused by a build up of iron. I wonder if these occasional Innerspace images of the internals is even remotely realistic.
“And I wouldn’t have taken your bishop. I’d have moved my queen to D6, defusing the threat. Then rook to E8, attacking the king’s pawn. I’d have lost the exchange, but won the game.” “I know. I was bluffing.”
Media Centre Description: US medical drama about a maverick, anti-social New Jersey doctor. House encounters Nate, a teenage chess player who is overcome with violent rage and pounding headaches. Meanwhile, Foreman is furious to learn that somebody has cancelled his job interview at another hospital, and wastes no time in blaming House.
Recorded from Five on Thursday 23rd August 2007 20:58
After this, the next episode of house starts, but the recording gets cut off after less than a minute.
The next recording starts just after this with the final episode of House in this season – Human Error. Air-Sea Rescue is rescuing a man from the sea (after already having rescued his wife) and when he won’t let go of his suitcase, the rescuer has to force him to let it go. He upset, and the rescuers don’t understand why. He says they were his wife’s medical records, and he needs to get her to see Dr House.
His wife has a whole raft of conflicting symptoms, and without her medical records, the team are having trouble seeing which are caused by their time in the sea, and which happened before.
Foreman breaks her wrist turning her hand over, which makes them suspect Cancer. Chase is getting annoyed at House now being nice to Foreman. “This isn’t gonna work. He’s not a moron. You can’t just agree with everything he says for two days and hope he forgets the last three years and how much he hates you.” As a result, House fires him.
They spot a blood clot on a PET scan, and give her an angiogram to see things more clearly. Then her heart stops, although for a time she can still talk before the blacks out.
House talks to Wilson while he’s operating, trying to work out why her heart stopped. “You have a team. Run your differential with them.” “Foreman and Cameron are doing CPR.” “Then you shouldn’t have fired Chase.”
House consults with the trainee doctors.
She’s put on a bypass. House looks at her heart. They try to restart the heart, but it doesn’t work.
House is out of ideas. He eventually has to tell the husband that his wife is not coming back.
The husband is saying goodbye when he feels her heart beat. House turns on the monitors to see she has a normal rhythm.
“God sent her back to me. It’s a miracle.”
They try another angiogram, and this time they discover that she’s got a third ostium in the heart. “All the third one’s doing is causing inflammation, throwing off clots, getting in the way of the angiogram. No human would screw up that big. Don’t worry. Just one more surgery, and you’ll be fine.”
Chase and Cameron seem to be getting together. Not sure about his hat.
Foreman’s farewell with House is just as bitter as you’d expect (from House, of course).
To top it all off, Cameron resigns.
House enjoys cigars with Esteban, the husband. I think this must break all kinds of hospital rules.
Then he goes home, and opens the new guitar he’s bought, to replace the one he’s played since he was a kid. It’s a metaphor for change.
Media Centre Description: US medical drama about a maverick, anti-social New Jersey doctor. A Cuban man and his wife make the risky journey to the US by boat to seek House’s help in treating the woman’s mysterious condition. Elsewhere, the team faces a major shake-up as Foreman prepares to leave and House comes to a shocking decision.
Recorded from Five on Thursday 23rd August 2007 22:00
After this, the recording stops after a few minutes of an episode of CSI.
The next recording is the final part of Secret Life of the Motorway – The End of the Affair which has already started when the recording starts. This one looks at anti-motorway protests, like John and Betty Patrick, who protested against the M1 going through Bradgate Park near Leicester. And their protests resulted in a change in route for the motorway.
Tony Ridley talks about the planning they did to see what new roads might be necessary for London. “Our numbers were suggesting massive freeways were necessary. They might require dual four, lanes dual five. And if there was a flaw in what we were doing, it was too much time on making the machine produce numbers and far too little time on serious deep thinking about interpreting the numbers and what was the reality that they portrayed.”
One of the plans was known as the Motorway Box. “30 miles of elevated motorway, forcing its way through central London. The Motorway Box is perhaps the most controversial of the proposals since it involves a complete ring of four and eight lane highways so close to the heart of London.”
Terence Bendixson campaigned for Homes Before Roads, against things like the Motorway Box. “The Homes Before Roads people tended to be literary and artistic, and that sort of thing. I went to Oxford, I’d read history. The opponents were engineers. I mean, looking back, you can see it as a conflict between modernising engineers and reactionary, historical and literary people.”
Joyce Woods was part of a protest group against the planned M16, which was projected to go through Epping Forest, and their village of Upshire.
Sue McKinley: “Everyone was absolutely devastated because the one thing that you felt in Upshire was secure because we’re in the green belt and Epping Forest is protected by act of Parliament and then all of a sudden there was the government actually proposing to put a motorway in their own green belt and it was a huge sense of betrayal.”
Jock Macdonald protested against the M3 in Winchester.
John Tyme was involved in a lot of protesting against motorways. There’s quite a shocking interview with him at the time. “Do you hate motorways?” “Of course.” “You hate them?” “Of course, yes.” “Your ex-wife died in a car crash. Could it be that subconsciously that that is the basis of your hatred of the motor car and road traffic?” But in the end, his tactic of disrupting the public enquiries so they can’t even take place was successful.
George Stern successfully protested against widening the Archway through Islington.
Michael Howard was a lawyer working for the government on behalf of the road builders. I am not surprised.
Joe Weston talks about protesting the route of the M40. “One of the local members said, you know the route goes through Britain’s best butterfly wood, don’t you? And that was it, you know? That was something that would get people interested. Butterflies and bunny rabbits always do it for people.”
There’s a reference to Hitchhiker’s Guide, as it opens with Arthur Dent protesting against a bypass, only for the whole of the Earth to be demolished to make way for a Hyperspace Bypass.
Loadsamoney is referenced as we reach the 80s.
Edmund King talks about the government’s road building plans. “It was a lobbyist’s dream. You know, we couldn’t have written that white paper, so at the time, you know, it was an absolute delight.”
Barbara Bryant: “I was a Conservative councillor. I used cars in the way that any comparatively modern mum would have done in those days. I had no view about motorways. They were a convenient method for getting from A to B. And so I had no prejudices one way or the other about them. The prejudice started with the… what seemed to me at that time, totally irrational idea of taking the motorway straight through a completely undisturbed and extraordinarily special bit of chalk downland.”
The new breed of protester were the young people like Alex Plows. “I was at a Hawkwind gig in Brixton, an all -nighter and I started chatting to the chap dancing next to me and he said, I’ll just come back from this place. Just outside Winchester, they’re trying to put a road through it. There’s some people living there. Sounded instantly like somewhere I needed to go.”
Here’s Rebecca Lush, literally hugging a tree.
Jason Torrance attached himself to a bulldozer by a bicycle lock around the neck.
There’s footage of David Bellamy at the protest, talking about the heavy security that was brought in to clear the protesters. “I can’t believe I’m in England. I mean, if you showed pictures like this from Romania or Russia, you’d say, ooh terrible and you’d get het up. But those are John Major’s bully boys. That’s the only thing we can say.”
It wouldn’t be a documentary about road protests without a glimpse of “Swampy”.
I couldn’t find a full recording of this, so here’s a shortened version. My recording is very glitchy so I don’t think it’s worth putting it up.
Media Centre Description: Three-part documentary which examines the birth of Britain’s motorways and hails the achievements of those behind the ‘road revolution’. This final edition looks at how we began to question the promises made by the motorway and along the way found our voice of protest. After the first 1,000 miles or so had been built, the impact of motorways on both town and country was becoming apparent and Middle England rose up and disrupted public inquiries to voice its frustration.
Recorded from BBC FOUR on Thursday 23rd August 2007 23:58
BBC Genome: BBC FOUR Friday 24th August 2007 00:00
After this there’s a trail for Consenting Adults and for the Proms.
Then the recording ends with the start of The Search For Speed.
Here’s the ad breaks from the two episodes of House.
Adverts:
- trail: Anger Management
- Suzuki SX4
- Andrex
- B&Q
- John Frieda Original Shampoo
- Flora Pro-Activ
- Hiscox
- Woolworth’s
- Sainsbury’s
- Barclaycard – Stephen Mangan and Julian Rhind-Tutt
- trail: The Devil’s Own
- San Miguel
- No7
- B&Q
- Heinz Salad Cream
- Marks & Spencer
- Cillit Bang
- Sky Sports
- Look
- Ford Fiesta
- trail: Suburban Shootout
- Hyundai i3
- Vision Express
- DulcoEase
- Homebase
- Full Marks Solution
- Magners
- Activia
- Nationwide – Mark Benton, Tim Key
- trail: Numb3rs
- trail: Anger Management
- Atonement in cinemas
- Multi-grain Corn Flakes
- MFI
- Ariel
- trail: Football Italiano
- trail: Out of Reach
- Pantene
- Norwich Union DIrect
- George at Asda
- Enjoy England
- Clear Blue digital
- No Reservations in cinemas
- L’Oreal Revitalift – Andie McDowell
- Colman’s Mustard
- Get Set for Digital
- trail: It Could Happen To You
- Dr Kawashima’s Brain Training – Nicole Kidman
- travelsupermarket.com
- DFS
- Fiat Bravo
- match.com
- Guinness
- Virgin Media – Uma Thurman
- Argos
- No7
- trail: Numb3rs
- Death Sentence in cinemas
- Boots
- Heat
- Marks & Spencer
- Coco Pops
- AA Insurance
- Philadelphia Light
- Ikea
- Barclaycard – Stephen Mangan and Julian Rhind-Tutt
- Head & Shoulders
- Hotels.com
- trail: The Devil’s Own
- trail: Suburban Shootout
- trail: Britain’s Strongest Man
- Zurich
- Ireland
- Elvis The King
- trail: Anger Management
- trail: The Devil’s Own