I recently re-discovered I Claudius available in full on Youtube and I want to do it all before the vile and disgusting BB*C pull it.
Wednesday, 26 October 2011
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Light blogging of late due to bestiality, sex, disability Abuse! Incest, sexual slavery, sodomy, racism. corruption, adultery, paedaphilia, incidental Colonialism, rape and inter-racial orgies courtesy of the BBC and almost all contained within the walls of one building. "Dynasty" as a soap opera, eat your heart out.
I recently re-discovered I Claudius available in full on Youtube and I want to do it all before the vile and disgusting BB*C pull it.
I recently re-discovered I Claudius available in full on Youtube and I want to do it all before the vile and disgusting BB*C pull it.
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Those were the days...
Never seen it ... I have some catching up to do. I competing for "lech of the year".
Indeed Harry, back in the days when the BBC still did proper drama rather than, as I observed eleswhere, expecting us to care about cutting edge issues surrounding ageing Welsh lesbians and their struggle to adopt disabled black orphans when the Ritalin runs low.
Woodsie You don't know what you have missed mate but don't expect any "action" scenes, there isn't even any swearing.
I recommend the Treble:
Rome I and II followed by I Caudius.
Rome is an HBO and BBC production, proving that the BBC can still do things properly so long as the politics department aren't allowed near it.
There is enough powder in there to blow Woodsterman's beard off. Not suitable for children and you might not even want to watch it with your granny, and yet it is a triumph of what TV can do in a way that neither film or stage can.
P.S. the recent radio re-production was a joy. It had Jacobi but this time playing Augustus. He said all he could remember was Brian Blessed's voice.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2010/sep/12/derek-jacobi-claudius-radio-4
Sounds like this will do a booming business---my days of watching such crap have passed, not that I'm a Disney fan---never have been that!
Rome 1 and 2 are equally dramatic Woman on a Raft but much more graphic.
Thank you for the radio link.
I've just finished eposode 7 and the death of Livia, I shall miss her, all that scheming.
Ron it all sounds very disgusting but in the 1976 BBC production there is little actually seen, it is all in the dialogue which makes it such brilliant drama.
Episode 8 ends with Caligula, imagining himself to be the god Zeus murderung his pregnant sister-wife because he fears that their child might be more powerful than himself.
It is the same flight of fancy that allows our mere politicians to announce that gay men might be "married", LOL.
Lovely, that's my weekend sorted.
There a app for that.
GV It sorted my last few days out. Sadly the last few episodes (covering Claudius The God) did not match the first despite ones fondess for silly old Emperor Claudius.
Hi Pissed of Irishman I grew up with pissed up Irishmen/boys but don't do apps. I did try to comment on your site but it would not let me use Blogger loggin or anonymous, dunno why. Pogue mahone.
When's the Messalina bit come up?
I've seen parts of it , checking out dvd's at the library!
I thought the first sentence of the post, you were describing the occupy oakland activities of late ;-)
Hi James, that would be episode 7.
Sorry for the confusion there Bunny, good luck at the library, I doubt that ours would stock it as I Claudius has genuine literary merit and would therfore be seen as inapproriate 'dead white male' stuff.
The BBC series "I, Claudius" was brilliant - for its time .. but as has already been said, quite sanitised ..
Whereas "Rome", for me, at least - was far more realistic ..
The literary merit of Robert Graves' book cannot be overstated & I feel very fortunate to own a First Edition of "I, Claudius" ..
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