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RTE series re China

  • 30-03-2013 10:38am
    #1
    10belowzero
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    Can any one remember a series on RTE ,around the 80's /90's I think shown on Sunday's .
    It was a documentary/travelogue theme showing traditional Chinese cooking and lifestyle's in some of the most remote area's of China.
    This style of program would have been rare to the western world at the time ,because of China's isolationalist policies at the time.
    It's amazing the way these thing's just pop into your head, can anyone remember the series ?


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  • #2
    darkdubh
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    10belowzero wrote: »
    Can any one remember a series on RTE ,around the 80's /90's I think shown on Sunday's .
    It was a documentary/travelogue theme showing traditional Chinese cooking and lifestyle's in some of the most remote area's of China.
    This style of program would have been rare to the western world at the time ,because of China's isolationalist policies at the time.
    It's amazing the way these thing's just pop into your head, can anyone remember the series ?
    I think I vaguely remember the series all right though I can't think what it was called.I recall one bit where it was showing this very remote part of China and they showed this local pop star performing who was done up in comicly out of date 70's gear for the time(late 80's early 90's) flares and all.


  • #3
    10belowzero
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    That sound's about right , it was on Sunday afternoon's I think , can't remember if it was rte 1/2.
    I think your right about the pop star , I remember it showing village's + area's where thing's had not changed for thousand's of year's.


  • #4
    Spear
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    Might have been this one:

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109419/

    I certainly remember one that referred to clouds in the name.


  • #5
    10belowzero
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    It could be , if it was edited in to episode's , the program I remember ran as a series over several week's.


  • #6
    darkdubh
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    It might have been The Silk Road.It was a Chinese production but I think it may have been shown in the West.
    Edit:It was actually a Japanese Chinese Co production.
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1024812/


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  • #7
    10belowzero
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    Tnk darkdubh , this could be it all right , i'll do some research and let you know tnk's again


  • #8
    ruadhri44
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    There was a television show lasting about 30 minutes on RTE in 1983. It was on Friday evenings. It was about different people in China talking about their dayly lives. I don't know for sure but I think it was simply called "About China". I have been unable to find anything out about it on the internet so am not sure if I have the title right.

    I do remember "The Silk Road". It was on Sunday afternoons in the autumn of 1986. Very good show. Nearly sure Darkdubh is right.

    By the way about that guy done up in 70s gear. I saw that on a documentry in Channel 4 in the early 1990s. It was about two US zoologists visiting a remote area China insearch of the Yeti. The scene showed the two professers dancing with locals as the naf 70s guy and his band played on.

    Sadly they found no sign of the Yeti.


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