[Uncharted]

Absolutely invaluable show.



It was a masterclass.

RIP.

[Nigel Fairservice]

Hands was a simple show about skilled and complex work. I remember watching it avidly when I was a teenager and I'd love to see it again. I'll always remember the episode on coopering. My grandfather was a cooper from the 1920s to the 1960s and I imagine he worked much like the cooper featured in Hands. Unfortunately the trade is nearly extinct in Ireland these days.

[RabbleRouser2k]

Originally Posted by Nigel Fairservice

Hands was a simple show about skilled and complex work. I remember watching it avidly when I was a teenager and I'd love to see it again. I'll always remember the episode on coopering. My grandfather was a cooper from the 1920s to the 1960s and I imagine he worked much like the cooper featured in Hands. Unfortunately the trade is nearly extinct in Ireland these days.

They were digitally remastered and reshown not that long ago.

As for the series itself, they're all up on youtube. You can buy the boxset from hands.ie.


Case in point, the cooper episode.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLs7ZWB5m0I

[Sir Oxman]

Originally Posted by RabbleRouser2k

They were digitally remastered and reshown not that long ago.

As for the series itself, they're all up on youtube. You can buy the boxset from hands.ie.


Case in point, the cooper episode.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLs7ZWB5m0I

I have a huge urge to watch them again now.

The slow pace, narration, skills and lifestyles shown are a great antidote to crap!
R.I.P.

[RabbleRouser2k]

Originally Posted by Sir Oxman

I have a huge urge to watch them again now.

The slow pace, narration, skills and lifestyles shown are a great antidote to crap!
R.I.P.

There was an episode on making Porcelain figures of birds, by a very talented artist.

I remember being absolutely fascinated with how he created those pieces. Some of those hands episodes are on different channels. It's pretty easy to find them on youtube.

[A-Train]

Originally Posted by RabbleRouser2k

There was an episode on making Porcelain figures of birds, by a very talented artist.

I remember being absolutely fascinated with how he created those pieces. Some of those hands episodes are on different channels. It's pretty easy to find them on youtube.

I had never heard of this show until reading this today and it reminded me of a show my recently passed away uncle use to always say he was on.

Sure enough a bit of digging today and it is the same show and thanks to your tip about YouTube I have found the episode that my uncle featured in. I had never seen it and it’s great to now have it.

[Harry Palmr]

David Shaw-Smith, Gerrit Van Gelderen, Éamon de Buitléar, the holy trinity of RTE's 70s/80s slow TV subgenre all gone now.

[The Inbetween is mine]

Originally Posted by Harry Palmr

David Shaw-Smith, Gerrit Van Gelderen, Éamon de Buitléar, the holy trinity of RTE's 70s/80s slow TV subgenre all gone now.

I actually went googling for Gerrit last night after the David Shaw Smith announcement on here..

[Harry Palmr]

It's a reminder of how social history is created - recording ordinary people doing their work.

Right now you could do this for say the back-street mechanic. Soon their skills will be lost because in a generation their role will have been rendered obsolete by the end of the internal combustion engine with traditional geared transmission.

[Nigel Fairservice]

Originally Posted by RabbleRouser2k

They were digitally remastered and reshown not that long ago.

As for the series itself, they're all up on youtube. You can buy the boxset from hands.ie.


Case in point, the cooper episode.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLs7ZWB5m0I

Many thanks, that is tonight's viewing sorted.

[corks finest]

Originally Posted by Harry Palmr

David Shaw-Smith, Gerrit Van Gelderen, Éamon de Buitléar, the holy trinity of RTE's 70s/80s slow TV subgenre all gone now.

They were all fab, especially those introducing us to our natural world

[JP Liz V1]

Mick Norcross has died aged 57 (Kirk's dad, both were on TOWIE)

[GerardKeating]

Irish Olympian Jerry Kiernan Died today. He also worked with RTÉ covering many Olympic Games' television coverage

[Dtp1979]

Originally Posted by GerardKeating

Irish Olympian Jerry Kiernan Died today. He also worked with RTÉ covering many Olympic Games' television coverage

What happened him?

[GerardKeating]

Mira Furlan (of Babylon 5/Lost) has passed away.

The article has a touching In Memorium from the great maker.