Will I ever see be able to see this documentary again?
September 7, 2010 3:58 PM
How can I watch a documentary that aired a few years ago on a BBC channel if it is not available on the BBC's great iplayer site or elsewhere. It's not available on the kind of sites 'one' would download movies/tv shows for free either, as no-one is....
How can I watch a documentary that aired a few years ago on a BBC channel if it is not available on the BBC's great iplayer site or elsewhere? It's not available on the kind of sites 'one' would download movies/tv shows for free either, as no-one is.... clamoring to watch a documentary about a one-legged British folk/rock singer, now deceased.
It was a great documentary. I remember watching it on a visit to my uncle's house on his new 50 inch plasma TV and being blown away by this insanely talented guy and his life. It motivated me to travel across the country with my father to see one of his last ever shows before he died.
If you go the iplayer site it shows when it was last available to be viewed (a while ago now) and I fear I'll never be able to watch it again.
Any ideas?
Should I face the fact I am likely not going to be able to see it again?
How can I watch a documentary that aired a few years ago on a BBC channel if it is not available on the BBC's great iplayer site or elsewhere? It's not available on the kind of sites 'one' would download movies/tv shows for free either, as no-one is.... clamoring to watch a documentary about a one-legged British folk/rock singer, now deceased.
It was a great documentary. I remember watching it on a visit to my uncle's house on his new 50 inch plasma TV and being blown away by this insanely talented guy and his life. It motivated me to travel across the country with my father to see one of his last ever shows before he died.
If you go the iplayer site it shows when it was last available to be viewed (a while ago now) and I fear I'll never be able to watch it again.
Any ideas?
Should I face the fact I am likely not going to be able to see it again?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/music/features/john-martyn.shtml
Good God I suck.
posted by redskythinking at 4:01 PM on September 7, 2010
Good God I suck.
posted by redskythinking at 4:01 PM on September 7, 2010
Big thanks to arco.
Here was me thinking I would have to send emails to the BBC or other such desperate and mad moves... but in the end it seems almost everything is available on the internet!
posted by redskythinking at 4:46 PM on September 7, 2010
Here was me thinking I would have to send emails to the BBC or other such desperate and mad moves... but in the end it seems almost everything is available on the internet!
posted by redskythinking at 4:46 PM on September 7, 2010
Well, now I want to see it too! I was listening to "Solid Air" just the other day. So, can we have a clue? Is it torrentable?
posted by AmbroseChapel at 5:52 PM on September 7, 2010
posted by AmbroseChapel at 5:52 PM on September 7, 2010
Well, now I want to see it too! I was listening to "Solid Air" just the other day. So, can we have a clue? Is it torrentable?
Just search for John Martyn using Google Video with the duration set to long and there be links aplenty for Johnny Too Bad, well it's misspelled as 'Johhny Too Bad' which might explain why redskythinking had difficulty tracking it down.
posted by Ask Ives at 6:15 PM on September 7, 2010
Just search for John Martyn using Google Video with the duration set to long and there be links aplenty for Johnny Too Bad, well it's misspelled as 'Johhny Too Bad' which might explain why redskythinking had difficulty tracking it down.
posted by Ask Ives at 6:15 PM on September 7, 2010
As well as Ask Ives's google video tip, some docos which initially can't be found easily on 'the usual sites', often are available, but bundled inside huge collections - it's usually possible to selectively download from within these bundles, so you only need to grab the doco of interest, rather than the whole bandwidth sucking thing.
So e.g. you'd need to find the 'every BBC documentary evar' collection, or something along those lines, and look inside it to try to find the doco you were actually after.
posted by The Monkey at 8:43 PM on September 7, 2010
So e.g. you'd need to find the 'every BBC documentary evar' collection, or something along those lines, and look inside it to try to find the doco you were actually after.
posted by The Monkey at 8:43 PM on September 7, 2010
Thank you both very much for those tips.
posted by AmbroseChapel at 2:10 AM on September 8, 2010
posted by AmbroseChapel at 2:10 AM on September 8, 2010
Public libraries tend to buy a lot of documentaries.
posted by QIbHom at 8:34 AM on September 8, 2010
posted by QIbHom at 8:34 AM on September 8, 2010
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excuse my first post newbie-ness... ;)
posted by redskythinking at 4:01 PM on September 7, 2010