Fairport/Cropredy BBC4??

[Amethyst (Jenny)]

This was announced recently.. does anyone know yet when it will be broadcast please??

[Andy]

"Fairport's 45 years will be celebrated on BBC4 later this year" was what I read. Dunno about Croppers footage, but the 5th April Union Chapel gig was filmed for this, 6 camera rig so hopefully a lot of footage from that.

[Andy Tuck]

Don't think BBC4 are showing Cropredy, but Sky Arts are showing the highlights on Friday 31st August.

[Andy]

Don't think BBC4 are showing Cropredy, but Sky Arts are showing the highlights on Friday 31st August.

...or at least the Sky version of the highlights. Which are the Bob Harris company highlights. Or as we know it, **** coverage. I have no hopes.

[Gouty (Gary)]

This was announced recently.. does anyone know yet when it will be broadcast please??

I'm afraid I don't, though I've heard about it too. Please don't let them mess it up - something like this is so long overdue...

[PaulT]

I think there was an item a few weeks ago on the official site saying the chaps had been viewing the "draft" version of the BBC4 documentary...

[Amethyst (Jenny)]

I think there was an item a few weeks ago on the official site saying the chaps had been viewing the "draft" version of the BBC4 documentary...

Yes there was..  I'm just wondering if it will be shown before this year's Crop  

[Andy]

With  a week to go, it isn't in the schedules.

[jude]

Don't think there has been a transmission date.
It has been filmed over the last 18 months or so partly interviews at Cropredy and partly at other places.. so it's not necessarily a Cropredy documentary, mainly focussing on the band and it's history.

Or so I have been told  

[Amethyst (Jenny)]

Thanks all...  that's what I thought Jude.

[KascadeDan]

Sounds like it should be a good'n

[SymonC]

The transmission date has been announced as Friday 14th September, two programmes as follows on BBC4

 9.00pm-10.00pm  Fairport Convention - Who Knows Where the Time Goes (Documentary)

10.00pm-11.00pm Fairport Convention Concert 2012


Both shows will be repeated at 1am and 2am on the morning of 15th September

[jude]

The transmission date has been announced as Friday 14th September, two programmes as follows on BBC4

 9.00pm-10.00pm  Fairport Convention - Who Knows Where the Time Goes (Documentary)

10.00pm-11.00pm Fairport Convention Concert 2012


Both shows will be repeated at 1am and 2am on the morning of 15th September

Just trying to verify this Symon, where was it announced please?

[MikeB (Mike)]

Tried to check it on the BBC but they online TV schedules are only listing up to 3rd Sept at the minute

[jude]

Tried to check it on the BBC but they online TV schedules are only listing up to 3rd Sept at the minute

that's what I found, and couldn't see it anywhere else..

[SymonC]

The transmission date has been announced as Friday 14th September, two programmes as follows on BBC4

 9.00pm-10.00pm  Fairport Convention - Who Knows Where the Time Goes (Documentary)

10.00pm-11.00pm Fairport Convention Concert 2012


Both shows will be repeated at 1am and 2am on the morning of 15th September

Just trying to verify this Symon, where was it announced please?

It's on  digiguide  (TV guide that you can subscribe to and download to your computer)   http://digiguide.tv/

It also lists for the same evening at 11.00pm "Richard Thompson : Solitary Life" (Repeat)

[jude]

Ah thank you.. couldn't find any trace of it anywhere else..

 

[SymonC]

Details from digiguide :

DOCUMENTARY: Fairport Convention: Who Knows Where the Time Goes?
On: BBC 4 (9)    
Date: Friday 14th September 2012 (starting in 11 days)
Time: 21:00 to 22:00 (1 hour long)

Documentary following English folk-rock pioneers Fairport Convention as they celebrate their 45th anniversary in 2012. Fairport's iconic 1969 album Liege and Lief featured some of folk music's biggest names - including singer Sandy Denny, guitarist Richard Thompson and fiddler Dave Swarbrick - and was voted by Radio 2 listeners as the most influential folk album of all time. Today, having struggled for years with numerous line-up changes (26 members to date) and shifting musical fashions, these ageing folk-rockers host their annual festival in Cropredy, Oxfordshire in front of a passionate 20,000 crowd. Comedian Frank Skinner, who played the ukulele on Fairport's 2010 album Festival Bell, narrates this tale of the rise and fall - and rise again - of the original English folk-rockers.
(Stereo, Widescreen, Subtitles)
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MUSIC: Fairport Convention: 45th Anniversary Concert
On: BBC 4 (9)    
Date: Friday 14th September 2012 (starting in 11 days)
Time: 22:00 to 23:00 (1 hour long)

A concert to celebrate the 45th anniversary of folk-rock outfit Fairport Convention, filmed in March 2012 at the Union Chapel in north London, only a few miles away from the 'Fairport' house in Muswell Hill where the band was formed during the summer of 1967. Today only Simon Nicol, whose parents owned the house, is still there from the original line-up, but the wealth of incredible songs and arrangements left by former members such as Ashley Hutchings, Sandy Denny and Richard Thompson remains at the core of the band's live shows. This concert's highlights include Matty Groves from the band's landmark Liege and Lief album and Sandy Denny's Who Knows Where the Time Goes, voted 'favourite folk track of all time' by Radio 2 listeners.
(Stereo, Widescreen, Subtitles)
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Copyright (c) GipsyMedia Limited.

[Jules Gray]

Great - can't wait for these!

Jules

[KascadeDan]

these ageing folk-rockers host their annual festival in Cropredy

Fairport? Ageing? Never.