Alan Clark Diaries Reminder Service

Just phoned Champ and it wasn't him I was supposed to remind. I think I
was supposed to be reminded who I needed to remind by Will Grainger.

Anyway, whoever it was:

Tonight, 10.00 - 11.30 and the same tomorrow. BBC4

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/cinema/alanclarkdiaries/episodes.shtml

Enjoy. I will.

 

Well, I need to be reminded when it comes on to terrestrial telly.

So if you could manage that, I'd be most pleased.

Will, can you remind him to remind me? Ta,

 

Previously on usenet, Ben Blaney said...

Well, it wasn't for me, but thanks anyway. Now, how can I get our TV to
receive BBC4 before then?

 

Buy a freeview box from the local supermarket. 99 sheets.

HTH

 

That's a fsking expensive Freeview box you got there.

 

it's a guess

how much are they?

 

£59-ish, or less.

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, SteveH said:

You can get them for as little as £49 in pikey Argos

http://tinyurl.com/2f6od

 

Were you? Bugger.

I will when/if they make it to BBC1 or BBC2...

 

I get a bit pissed off with the way they portray him as the compleat clown.
Plus John Hurt is ancient, haggard and wrinkly. Clark was younger that Hurt
is, and sufficiently vain that he would have done something to conceal any
wrinkles that did show up.

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Also, it gives an odd sense of his womanising. He was in fact a
good-looking fellow with a huge wallet and some fucking fantastic
motors, so it's not a surprise that he fucked a few slags. But the TV
prog shows him to be a silly old fool.

 

Champ said:

He's (or was) exactly like my mate Richard (who went to the same
school). He too was (and is) a lad for the girlies. Lots of 'wifelets'
that his wife tolerates.

 

Have you read the Diaries?

He wasn't - by his lights - a bad person. One of the things that struck me
was how genuinely devout he was.

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Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, pseudoplatypus
<> typed

(Of Alan Clark)

So, in fairness, were Tomás de Torquemada and Mohamed Atta.

 

Oh, indeed. But AC was never in the position to actually go around killing
people. The only thing he came anywhere near getting enacted was the Fur
Labelling Order, which Maggie thoroughly stomped.

Now, if he'd been a drunk driver, then he'd have been a MURDER!

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Not yet.

Few people are bad from their POV.

 

Can get the three books in paperback, as a set for 20 quid. Get thee to
Waterstones.

 

Do you want to? They're available to borrow here...

Me, for one. Even if I am pissing around with sirtony atm...

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