News: BBC 2 Britain In A Day featuring Blackpool Tower Weekender

[Mike 4,612]

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An interesting pass on about a documentary showing on BBC 2 on June 11th,Called "Britain IN A Day" the film appears to be a 90 min snapshot of Britain on Saturday 12 Nov 2011 filmed by Britain itself .Apparently the Blackpool Tower Weekende...

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[Chalky 14,061]

I remember he producers on the radio asking for everyone to send in their videos to make up this programme.

[Goldsoul 954]

Very honoured to have the World Northern Soul Dancing Championship @Blackpool Tower featured. Great news.

[harrythedog 173]

Cringe time again. Keep a low profile and dont look anyone in the eye at the pub. Those immortal words across a packed bar - "Hey youre into that Northern Soul thing arent you, saw your mob on the teli the other night, what a set of w+++++S."

[Smileys 21]

ER CRINGE TIME? I dont get that from my local....perhaps its because I stand up like a man and tell people what my passion and beliefs are...give it a go Harry LIVE UP TO YER NAME AND SNAP AT THERE narrow minded opinions.....3000 punters enjoying emselves at the Blackpool tower was amazing and thats why the video was chosen from over 30000 other vids KTF you wont get burnt at the stake lol

[Guest allnightandy]

Cringe time again. Keep a low profile and dont look anyone in the eye at the pub. Those immortal words across a packed bar - "Hey youre into that Northern Soul thing arent you, saw your mob on the teli the other night, what a set of w+++++S."

Go on then show us a few of them dance moves !

[21 again 70]

Cringe time again. Keep a low profile and dont look anyone in the eye at the pub. Those immortal words across a packed bar - "Hey youre into that Northern Soul thing arent you, saw your mob on the teli the other night, what a set of w+++++S."

[21 again 70]

What a t-t get a life

[Byrney 1,968]

This is on in a few minutes, be interesting to compare views after the screening

[CeeJay 356]

This is on in a few minutes, be interesting to compare views after the screening

Bored with the programme already...............off to read a good book!!!

[Byrney 1,968]

I'm doing the same: I, Partridge, let's talk about Alan ;)

Recorded it will skip though later

[Guest sharmo 1]

is it me or was there about half a nano second of Blackpool ?

[Goldsoul 954]

Utter tripe. The producers used us!

I feel sorry for the guy who shot the footage and then only used 1 second of his hard work!

Awful truly awful. And it needed some narration.

Edited June 11, 2012 by The Golden 101

[Mark Bicknell 799]

Fantastic cheers just wasted and hour and a half of my life watching this lol

[Ollie Lailey 20]

If you blinked you might of missed it!

[daz mc 155]

Exactly that Simon...ive just wasted 1 1/2 hours of my life for f**k all.

[Guest sharmo 1]

must add I did like the program though I'm off up the wooden hill now see ya.S.

[Maark 174]

is it me or was there about half a nano second of Blackpool ?

Someone doing a spin, sandwiched between Lewes Bonfire:

[Mark Bicknell 799]

Someone doing a spin, sandwiched between Lewes Bonfire:

Yes but was it a good spin? was it authentic? discuss lol

[polyvelts 1,175]

I thought it was really good, way too much spinning tho !

[Guest allnightandy]

Watched the first one and a half minutes of it and could see what was going to happen

Nobody got more than a few seconds , so turned it over

[johnmcc 280]

Someone doing a spin, sandwiched between Lewes Bonfire:

Flaming hell, I'd pay to watch that!

[diddy morgan 472]

yes mark , i can confirm that was a typical classic wigan spin to the instrumental break in luther ingrams ..if its all the same to you babe on ovo without doubt (probably the rarer demo )

[21 again 70]

Just waiting for somethin to happen, eating my supper guy sicks his arm up a cows arse quality bbc. This is why we pay our tv license

[Andy Reynard 2,809]

Fantastic cheers just wasted and hour and a half of my life watching this lol

just home from work wife taped it thanks for the tip am off to bed. think all bases are covered on this one.

[Maark 174]

Flaming hell, I'd pay to watch that!

Come down with me then John, I do Lewes Bonfire every year!

[manus 654]

Thought this was a good programme - maybe overlong but definitely worth watching in my opinion.

Cheers

Manus

[Dylan 549]

must add I did like the program though I'm off up the wooden hill now see ya.S.

in spite of the soul clip being very short and very missable it was a good programme I enjoyed watching it.

[Supercorsa 348]

I watched it with my son and enjoyed the programme, thought it showed a wide cross section of the uk population. People from all walks of life some enjoying life, some suffering, but life none the less.

[Byrney 1,968]

Just sat down and watched it right through. I enjoyed the programme more than I thought i would, quite beautiful in parts. Didn't seem to lose anything by not including more than a sec of Blackpool IMO

Edited June 12, 2012 by Byrney

[Agentsmith 1,195]

considering director ridley scott was asked to orchestrate this project, it didnt match up to its billing as a day in the life of hundreds of people ( if it had been thousands, we would still be viewing it now! ), instead a decision appears to have been made to actually concentrate on about 7 or 8 human stories that could have fitted better into long lost families and just a mish-mash of flashing images pasted in between. so as it got to the end of the 90 mins, it was quite obvious there was going to be a sting in the tale...oh, and the bbc certainly knows how to concoct a sting...its midnight, just about the right time to intervene at an all-nighter and as is already obvious on here, a good many were gagging for the sequence where our music and people get a full public viewing....blinking is most definitely a frustrating thing....especially more annoying when THERE'S LITERALLY NOTHING TO SEE!!. more fool us, thinking we were going to see something tangible and enlightening amongst a colloberation of typical everyday observations that one could watch on the evening news. guess we duped ourselves into expecting too much...well, there is one saving grace.....THE NIGHT THAT WAS FILMED WE WERE ALL ROYALLY ENTERTAINED BY REAL DANCING... NOT BLOODY COME DANCING!!

[johnmcc 280]

An enjoyable snapshot.

Population divided by (90 x 60) = one second per event of aprox 12,000 people.