RICK LAWLOR on discovering classic cinema via TV.

First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on August 25th 2024.

This week we welcome back, after far too long an absence, an old friend of the show, RICK LAWLOR, who moved to Canada from the UK over a decade ago, and occasionally likes to keep me posted as to what’s going on in the world of telly on the other side of the Atlantic.

Not that we always just talk about television, of course, but that is always the initial prompt for conversations that can take us pretty much anywhere.

This time RICK specifically wanted to talk about how his lifelong love of the sort of old movies that keep a viewer amused on a damp and dismal weekend afternoon was born by watching films on television when he was a youngster, and how exposure to such wonderful films as OH, MISTER PORTER, starring WILL HAY, or ALFRED HITCHCOCK Directed classics like THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS, or the Ealing Comedies, led to an appreciation of the art of movie lighting.

Over the course of the next hour, a few technical issues aside, we indulge ourselves a little, whilst wondering whether seeking out the delights of watching Black and White cinema is something that people are starting to worry might be getting lost as our increasingly parochial and targeted viewing habits start to prevent many viewers from trying out something older or unfamiliar, and so not discovering what might be a classic from another age that they come to love, and whether this is perhaps meaning that new generations may never come to enjoy such cinema in the way we once did.

PLEASE NOTE - For Copyright reasons, musical content sometimes has to be removed for the podcast edition. All the spoken word content remains (mostly) as it was in the broadcast version. Hopefully this won't spoil your enjoyment of the show.