HEAVY METAL BRITANNIA on the BBC

bigfootkit · Post by **bigfootkit** » Fri Mar 05, 2010 9:16 pm

Just found out that the BBC are screening a new documentary about the evolution of British Metal in the UK tonight.
The Docu, "HEAVY METAL BRITANNIA", is on BBC 4 @ 9pm this evening GMT.
Those of you outside the UK may be able to catch it on the BBC website's "I-Player", but i'm not sure.
There is also a show called "HEAVY METAL BRITANNIA AT THE BBC", on straight after, followed by "IRON MAIDEN IN CONCERT".
Something decent on the telly on a Friday night?
There's a first time for everything.

Post by **DaN** » Fri Mar 05, 2010 9:42 pm

NP: "..will the pund really collapse, if the [someone] is elected? Blah, blah.."

Some Monthy Python scetch on at the moment it seems.. *twisting the knob*

Edit: are you sure it's BBC4? Got a link of some sort?

Post by **DaN** » Fri Mar 05, 2010 10:24 pm

Ah.. you ment TV not radio right? This link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/watchlive/ says "Not available in your area" unfortunately

bigfootkit · Post by **bigfootkit** » Fri Mar 05, 2010 11:59 pm

According to :

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0 ... Britannia/

it'll be available on I-Player "soon", which usually means the following day.

msp · Post by **msp** » Sat Mar 06, 2010 10:26 am

I saw some of it. A lot of the footage was rehashed from the Arena Heavy Metal Special from 1989.

Had to turn over at 10:30pm though as the girlfriend wanted to watch Jonathan Ross Talk Show

bigfootkit · Post by **bigfootkit** » Sat Mar 06, 2010 10:29 pm

Yeah, most of the band footage was familiar to me too. From the '89 Arena special, The '79 Box NWOBHM/Maiden episode etc etc.
It was still worth watching for the new interviews with Halford, Lemmy, Tatler, Iommi etc.
Burke Shelley came off as a bit of a tit however.

Rick · Post by **Rick** » Sat Mar 20, 2010 9:24 am

Not much was new to me, but I really enjoyed the documentary anyway.