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Message: 6602
Author: andrewbroad
Date: 07/12/2009
Subject: Re: UK TV-alert: Manic Miner on BBC 4
andrewbroad wrote:
>Part 2 ("Monopolies and Mergers") is scheduled for Monday 14th December (21:00 - 22:00, BBC 4), and covers board-games over the last 200 years.
> 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).
So I'm guessing that Manic Miner will appear in Part 3, and that it will be televised on Monday 21st December.
The Manic Miner footage actually appears in trailers for all programmes in BBC Four's Game On series, of which Games Britannia is part, but somehow I just can't imagine Manic Miner appearing in any of the other programmes listed at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/tv/features/playseason/
--
Dr. Andrew Broad
http://abroad.sqweebs.com/spectrum/mmjsw/
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