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The Long Lost Shows Show on Big Centre TV

Wesley Smith & Vanessa Jackson

Wesley Smith & Vanessa Jackson on the Long Lost Shows Show

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Copyright resides with the original holder, no reproduction without permission. I was interviewed a couple of months ago by Big Centre TV, about BBC Pebble Mill. The show was transmitted on Big Centre TV on Saturday 14th Nov 2015, and is available to watch online, on the following link: http://www.bigcentre.tv/watch-again/entertainment/9742-tv-heaven-the-long-lost-shows-show.

I was interviewed by presenter Wesley Smith, who coincidentally I was at university with. We talk about several Pebble Mill programmes, including The Rainbow, and Nice Work  amongst others. The show is part of a series: The Long Lost Shows Show, and therefore some lost Pebble Mill programmes are mentioned, including several episodes of Look! Hear! and The Actual Woman, which weren’t kept, and have now been restored to the BBC archive, through domestic copies kept by one of the Look! Hear! presenters, and by Jack Shepherd, who wrote The Actual Woman. The archive society Kaleidoscope copied the domestic tapes, and gave the copies to the BBC.

Saeed Jaffrey

Maurice Colbourne & Saeed Jaffrey. Copyright resides with the original holders, no reproduction without permission

Maurice Colbourne & Saeed Jaffrey. Copyright resides with the original holders, no reproduction without permission

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Saeed Jaffrey, the well known Indian actor died today (Nov 16th 2015), aged 86. He will probably be best remembered for appearing in Gandhi, amongst a hugely long and impressive list of different film and television roles, but he also appeared in the Play for Today, and subsequent series, Gangsters (1975, 1976 & 1978), at BBC Pebble Mill. Gangsters was apparently one of his first roles after he moved from India to the UK. He played Aslam Rafiq, the charismatic boss of an illegal human trafficking racket.

Gangsters was produced by David Rose; Philip Saville directed the Play for Today, and Philip Martin devised and wrote the film noir, which was inspired by The French Connection.

A Touch of Eastern Promise – Radio Times

ATEP Radio Times article

 

 

 

 

 

 

ATEP Radio Times

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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This Radio Times interview with Tara Prem was published in February 1973. The article publicizes the 30′ drama, A Touch of Eastern Promise, written by Tara, which was the first British television film with an entirely Asian cast. The Radio Times does not mention this fact, but concentrates on the similarities of the Bollywood film industry and the Hollywood film industry. The film was set in Balsall Heath, Birmingham, and tells the story of Mohan, and his obsession with a Bollywood film star – Shalini. It was produced by David Rose and directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg.

 

A Touch of Eastern Promise – Tara Prem

ATOEP conf film from pebblemill on Vimeo.

In this video interview Tara Prem talks about writing the 1973, 30′ film, A Touch Of Eastern Promise. Script editor, Barry Hanson, also talks about how the film was made. The producer was David Rose, and Michael Lindsay-Hogg, the director. This single drama was the first film on British television with an entirely Asian cast. It tells the story of a young man, Mohan, who dreams about Bollywood films, and particularly a glamorous actress, who is coming to sing in Birmingham that evening. It is a film about dreams in contrast to reality, and explores what it means to live in immigrant communities in British cities in the 1970s.

 

A Touch of Eastern Promise

A Touch of Eastern Promise

Artemis 81

Jenny Brewer on Artemis 81 from pebblemill on Vimeo.

 
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In this specially recorded video, Jenny Brewer, who worked as a production assistant in the 1970s and early 1980s, talks about some of the challenges of making the three hour, epic drama, by David Rudkin: Artemis 81.

The film was transmitted on 29th December 1981. The BBC genome project (digitised historic Radio Times entries), provides the following information about Rudkin’s drama:

A film by DAVID RUDKIN with Hywel Bennett
Dinah Stabb , Dan O’Herlihy featuring Sting and Anthony Steel, Margaret Whiting Roland Curram , Ingrid Pitt
A Danish museum case shattered, the pieces of a pagan statue hidden in cars on a North Sea ferry, the subsequent deaths of ferry passengers, an old musician terrified that a curse upon him will cause the devastation of the Earth.
Gideon Harlax, a successful young novelist of ‘ the paranormal and unexplained ‘, thinks he has found the material for a new book. But as Gideon coldly exploits human tragedies, angry powers from Man’s ancient past are gathering. Alien Planet Danish ferry Oxford library
Original music by DAVE GREENSLADE Passacaglia by GORDON CROSSE
Film cameraman DAVID JACKSON Film editor MIKE HALL Designer GAVIN DAVIES
Script editor ROGER GREGORY Producer DAVID ROSE
Director ALASTAIR REID

http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/e4712cf3ce794d8d9c47c637bf8dbadd

Jenny Brewer

 

 

 

The following comment was left on the Pebble Mill Facebook page:

Stuart Gandy: ‘I remember working on this in the dubbing theatre. Dave Baumber did a wonderful mix. It needed a lot of post-sync recording. A very interesting film, would love to see it again. I don’t think it was ever repeated.’