https://www.freefilmfestivals.org/event/jargon-more-than-you-ever-wanted-to-know-the-joy-of-essex/ Scathing lucid and hilarious. This erudite verbal and visual essay Observer A characteristically witty ribald and provocative essay The Times It’s ace! The Guardian There were so many more ideas in this hour than in the entire output, since its inception, of (say) The One Show that it was almost embarrassing. The […]
Festival Screening of Jargon & The Joy of Essex 11th September
Festival Screening of Stanley and his Daughters 10th September
https://www.freefilmfestivals.org/event/stanley-and-his-daughters/ An extraordinary documentary….Francis Hanly made this strange, moving, funny, sad film just in time. Sam Wollaston – The Guardian Remarkable story of two elderly sisters. Matt Baylis – The Daily Express That Frank Hanly was there to capture the sisters last year together fills me with admiration: for both him and for Arena’s […]
Bunkers, Brutalism and Bloodymindedness on iplayer
For a limited time only the first episode of the two parter about brutalist architecture – Bunkers, Brutalism and Bloodymindedness – is on iplayer. I don’t know why only the first part is being shown – only the BBC schedulers would be able to provide the answer. https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03vrphc/bunkers-brutalism-and-bloodymindedness-concrete-poetry-with-jonathan-meades-episode-1
Jonathan Meades on Jargon – Reviews
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/may/27/jonathan-meades-jargon-review https://inews.co.uk/culture/television/jonathan-meades-on-jargon-bbc4-review-an-hour-of-erudite-bile-in-the-great-english-tradition/
Jonathan Meades on Jargon – Twitter reaction
Thank you @BBCFOUR for Jonathan Meades on Jargon – this is what I want from television, and I'm not surprised its BBC Four that provides it for me. Thank you, more please. — Michael Fawcett (@durhamfan71) May 28, 2018 The art part on the new Jonathan Meades programme is so fucking good. All art twats […]
Radical Broadcasts
A screening Saturday May 5th at the Whitechapel Gallery of my 1993 film with Edward Said – The Idea of Empire – as part of a series of screenings about radical tv. Links to the event and a piece by Stuart Jeffries in the Guardian “And yet, TV has lost a lot in switching off […]
Twitter Reaction to news of transmission of Jargon
https://twitter.com/Quercusmktg/status/972503507818475520 One thing you discover when you go to university is how much is down to knowing the right technical jargon. — I-Po74 (@IPo74) March 10, 2018 Yes, please. https://t.co/Y9mMVEYAsV — Andy Day (@andy_day) March 10, 2018 This is my kind of shit.. https://t.co/4gqFyTBjvY — L A U R A (@FireladySnail) March 10, 2018 Reasons […]
Sgt Pepper’s Musical Revolution nominated for Broadcasting Press Guild Award
Broadcasting Press Guild Awards 2018 – Television nominations
Rachel Cooke in the New Statesman on Stanley and His Daughters
https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/tv-radio/2018/02/arena-painter-stanley-spencer-s-daughters-rarity-among-modern-bbc