Bank Holiday Monday - the next best thing to going to Hartlepool

[Barry Izbak]

I'm not happy about missing out on one of my favourite away trips up to 'Pools, and would far rather be up there watching the Albion.
BUT, if you do have to be stuck at home this afternoon, and you haven't got BBC local amateur radio or Seagulls World, at least you can watch one of my favourite films.

The Spirit of St Louis
Monday 05 April
2:25pm - 5:00pm Five
"This historical drama is one of the greatest, most undershown and underrated achievements of director Billy Wilder, who's best known for such mordant comedies as Some Like It Hot and Sunset Blvd. It is a staggering conceit to film such a seemingly uncinematic tale as Charles A Lindbergh's solo flight across the Atlantic, confined as it is to one man in a small cockpit. Wilder makes it an emotional tour de force, utilising flashbacks and narration with wit and skill, aided by Franz Waxman's superb score and Robert Burks and J Peverell Marley's magnificent photography. James Stewart is a shade too old for Lindbergh, but no other actor could better his unique all-American combination of intensity, tenderness and wry concern."
from the Radio Times online

 

[Taybha]

this the one where the fly saves his life ?

 

[Barry Izbak]

this the one where the fly saves his life ?

You better believe it.

 

[tedebear]

Bank holidays mean gardening for me.... just ducked in to make a cuppa.

Arthurs bank holiday has so far consisted of sitting by the back door keeping and eye on me and watching "World of Steam" on repeat since about 8am this morning...watching the Mallard reach 126mph is his favourite part....closely followed by water troughs and trains at full speed over them...

Zef is of course tinkering with his beloved...

 

[Beach Hut]

Having a lazy day in Berlin, we are staying in the Commi eastern block.

For Tescos read Lidl here, never seen so many.