Starting on Monday 18th at 21.00 there's a 12 part series called, The Great Film Composers: Music Of The Movies. The first part is the start of it all & the thirties, & it continues with the thirties for the second part, I read that it's quite comprehensive (well, it's 12 parts), I'd think it's well worth recording.
I quite like the 1 hour profiles they do on actors - "Discovering James Coburn"; "Discovering Steve McQueen"; "Discovering Ernest Borgnine" etc - they have got thru just about everyone. It has one or two of the same old wankers as talking heads and its a bit condescending and quite often they skip past a great film and include an overrated one but generally theyre watchable and you learn something.
This weeks ones are Ginger Rogers, ava gardner, Cary Grant, robert mitchum (seen that one, its decent); Fred astaire, humphrey bogart and Burt Lancaster (seen that one too).
They also rerun tales of the unexpected, the documentary series "The Sixties"; "The Seventies" and have a lot of pop concerts and opera.
Theres even a zimmer concert by orf vienna radio orchestra monday evening at 7pm.
Btw that composer programme that Rameau mentioned, ep1 is repeated Tuesday evenings at midnight.
