BBC 1 Tonight 8.00pm - Griff Rhys Jones - Barges

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BBC 1 Tonight 8.00pm - Griff Rhys Jones - Barges
GRJ made a programme about the East Coast barges, which is being shown to night at 8.00pm. According the local Newspaper the programme features a "Stacky Barge being loaded in Tollesbury and taking the load to London for the horses. I saw this being filmed in front of my house, looked interesting, and GRJ is very good - he used to sail from West Mersea
 
Karouise said:
Glad I wasnt in Salcott Creek with that barge coming up!! Didnt see Tiller Girl in shot - probably off doing a survey for us :D
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You missed her! She was the white dot at the end of the line of yachts in the first panoramic shot. Actually that was all a bit melodromatic. I saw the Dawn go up probably on a recce and there's loads of room. And the withies don't really mark the channel, they mark different oyster layings.

Enjoyable though - apart from the Plum Duff!
 
I also thought it was very good - The one little point that I thought was bad was the way items kept jumping about - First they go up the Colne to Fingringhoe and then round to West Mersea - The next shot is Rowhedge, which is above Fingringhoe on the Colne.

They did the same going past Southend and up the Thames, and the next item was Foulness, which they passed on the way to Southend. It leaves me wondering if the guy that put the programme together knew the local geography.

A minor point, and a little irritating, but a good programme nevertheless
 
I think they had to put in the pub/sing song bit to stick with their commitment to the celebrity culture. TV seems just to consist of well known people doing all sorts of inane things these days. I am sure the Director would have thought images of the Dawn standing down the Swin to be utterly boring whereas we would all here have quite enjoyed it. We have to have these artificial dramatic pieces in things all the time - the squeeze down Salcott - rubbish, see the images on my post!, the crisis coming off the jetty at Salcott; mind you getting into St Kats wasn't artificial - not sure I would have wanted to turn a barge out of the tideway into there.

But overall I enjoyed it because they got so much of the Barge in - which is very unusual these days.
 
Celebrity fiddler

I don't know what to make of GRJ, the word on the sea wall was that he was a bit of a primadonna whilst they were filming, and watching his boat charge into a collison on port tack (don't know if he was helming) at last year's Levington Classics, added to all his three man goon shows, did somewhat colour my viewing last night, but the overarching feature was that it was beautifully filmed and presented, all previous posts agreed with.

We did spot our celebrity fiddler in the Albion in Rowhedge, Adrian Koval, who is appearing in the MICA Centre in West Mersea tonight, with the legendary Regatta Ceilidh Band for the inaugural First Friday Ceilidh Club barn dance, entry £5, if the celebrity-obsessed would like to mob him! Adrian is usually seen aboard Gwenili, out of Brightlingsea.
 
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