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Message: 6600

Author: tobez@btinternet.com

Date: 03/12/2009

Subject: Re: UK TV-alert: Manic Miner on BBC 4

 

I already have this on disc from when it was broadcast last year. It was very interesting.

In manicminerandjetsetwilly@yahoogroups.com, mark wills wrote:

Oh wow! That sounds marvellous. Will anybody be able to record this, either on VHS or DVD? I ask because I am currently residing and working in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, and BBC iPlayer is not available to me here.

It ticks me off. I am UK TV Licence payer, yet I can't watch TV online here. I wish there was some system whereby you could register against your TV licence, thus getting access outside of the UK.

I really like BBC4's output. Much better than the rubbish on BBC1 (though I admit I like Strictly, when I get a chance to see it!)

Mark

As I was tuning into BBC 4 to record a documentary about Kit Williams (author of Masquerade, of which I may write a JSW64:MM game one day),

I noticed some footage of Manic Miner ("Central Cavern") in a trailer for an upcoming programme called Games Britannia.
Games Britannia is a three-part series about popular games in Britain from the Iron Age to the Information Age. Part 1 (Monday 7th December, 21:00 - 22:00, BBC 4) covers the 1st century to the Victorian era, so presumably Manic Miner might appear in either Part 2 or Part 3
(the dates of which have yet to be published AFAIK).
--
Dr. Andrew Broad http://abroad. sqweebs.com/ spectrum/ mmjsw/

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