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 Powerhouse
- Wednesday 10 March - 11.15pm - 大象传媒 One
updated 08/03/04 |
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Gill
Mills welcomes you to Powerhouse, the new arts and entertainment show
for the North West.
What's on next week? |
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Gill Mills - presenter |
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On
the first programme:
Craig
Cash settles down with a bacon butty to watch Powerhouse |
BEHIND
EARLY DOORS
Craig Cash and Phil Mealey take us behind the scenes of the
acclaimed sit-com which they write and in which they star. Says
Craig: "I asked Phil to be in it because he's a mate and
because it's about a pub and we have plenty of experience of
pubs."
Early Doors follows suit, although we are given access to goings-on
in the back room and upstairs of the fictional pub called The
Grapes. Phil Mealey gave up his job as an engineer to partner
Craig as writer and actor - series one of Early Doors was his
screen debut, carried off with great aplomb.
Both express their surprise that the popular policemen characters,
Phil and Nige, while seen to be on a different level of reality
from the other, invented characters, are actually based on real
officers they once knew. "We changed the names to protect
them," observes Craig. "They're not called Phil and
Nige in real life. They're actually called Phillip and Nigel." |
Finished
work of art |
ARTIST
IN RESIDENCE
Alex Williams is an artist and art teacher with a mission to
demystify modern art and bring it into people's homes. Give
him a call and he'll be round in a flash with bright ideas to
brighten up a bare wall or garden or empty space with an abstract
painting, sculpture or maybe a mural.
This week Leslie Brand and her mum Regina, from Wirral, turn
out an abstract picture in the style of the great Wassily Kandinsky.
Now it hangs proudly on the lounge wall. Says Alex: "Kandinsky
was a Russian who spent a lot of time in Germany and helped
give birth to the Bauhaus movement which aimed to create a unified
sense of design that could be applied to almost everything,
small or large, from crockery to buildings.
The Nazis banned it, which in a sense was the best thing they
could have done, because it promptly spread all over the world.
Leslie and Regina really got stuck in - and now there's a little
piece of Bauhaus in their house." |
Maine
Road by Len Grant |
THE
END OF MAINE ROAD
Though Manchester City FC has a brand new home there are those
who say the spirits of the present squad members still hover
over Maine Road.
That once imposing stadium is now in its death throes as the
demolition teams complete their work, a process photographed
in detail by photographer Len Grant.
Commissioned by the City Council, Len has turned his camera
on the destruction of Maine Road, and on the impact upon local
residents of its disappearance. |
Gunpowder,
Treason and Plot |
GUNPOWDER,
TREASON AND PLOT
Liverpool writer Jimmy McGovern talks passionately about his
new television drama, his faith, five hundred years of treason,
and how history has a habit of repeating itself.
The lessons are there to be learned, he says - but do we pay
attention? In the light of recent outrages and military actions,
Jimmy argues that the answer is no.
Gunpowder, Treason and Plot airs on 大象传媒 TWO, Sunday the 14th
and 21st of March at 9pm |
Also
this week:
BUT IS IT ART?
Find out why Blackpool is having a ball with sculpture. |
Tolkien
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And
next week?
Mapping Middle-earth with Steve Raw, the official Lord of the
Rings mapmaker. We also examine the claim that the reality of
the Ribble Valley helped inspire the fantastic terrain of Middle-earth.
J.R.R. Tolkien frequently stayed at Stonyhurst College when
visiting his son who studied for the priesthood there. Was he
inspired? You decide.
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details of next week's programme |
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