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Summer of 69 - tonight RTE1 10.10

  • 20-07-2010 8:38pm
    #1
    amdublin
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    This is a repeat (well it is RTE and the summer isn't it) but it is so so so good.

    It is about a Nat. Geographic photographer who shot pics in Ireland in 1969 and returns now to meet the people he shot and retake photos.

    It's a really lovely story/program.

    I'd seriously recommend it!


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  • #2
    Diddler1977
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    Sounds good.


  • #3
    amdublin
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    It's on now! It's on now!


  • #4
    amdublin
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    Am I the only person watching this??? :(


  • #5
    briany
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    This is quite excellent I must say.


  • #6
    backgardenbhudda
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    Hi,

    Can anyone here claim to know all of the music on that Program, Summer of '69?
    There's one track in particular, I thought it could have been Glen Campbell maybe, but it seems I was wrong. Its a slow airy number, with some lad singing about a woman he loves. There's strings + brushes in it as far as I remember....I'll try to describe it a bit better once I've heard it again (sorry)

    Any help greatly appreciated - it's a fantastic number I remember from my radio-only youth, that I never checked out until I heard it again.

    Thanks guys!

    And yes it is a really great program, I'm watching it now!!

    "knights in white satin......" etc. etc. it plays when the young woman from the Aran Islands is met in Dublin again, at the end of the show.....


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  • #7
    Tomohawk
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    Documentary making at its finest, great stuff.


  • #8
    cailineile13
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    If it's that one, it's actually called Nights in White Satin-it's by the Moody Blues.
    Linky here...
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9muzyOd4Lh8


  • #9
    Diabhal_Glas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 468 ✭✭Diabhal_Glas


    Anyone know if this will be up on the RTE player? being a repeat and all


  • #10
    backgardenbhudda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5 ✭backgardenbhudda


    Thanks Cailineile13!!

    I'm listening to it now. It's a really beautiful tune. A classic IMO.
    I'm reading all the comments on the song - harmonious praise!

    WD


  • #11
    Diddler1977
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    What a great doc. It was fantastic. Really enjoyed it.


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  • #12
    Clare Bear
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    What a great programme. I couldn't help but smile for ages afterwards. Beautiful.


  • #13
    technocrat
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    Yes well done RTE.

    This was my second time watching it and still enjoyed it hugely.

    Some of the countryside shots were amazing and the people he met along the journey very interesting.

    Its type of the programme i could never tire of watching :)


  • #14
    Diddler1977
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    I loved the story of the Arklow pottery worker receiving the letter from someone in America (Ohio, maybe?) with the same name who read the National Geographic article. They continued to correspond for years.


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