Friday, January 7, 2011
Mr Benn, Liberator of Worlds
Dora the Explorer and Bob the Builder can cram it. When I was a nipper, kids' TV was at its non-didactic apogee. Along with the Beatles and Monty Python, Mr Benn led the charge in the jubilant parody of imperialism. Mr Benn's role was the bowler hatted petty bourgeois functionary turned Latourian compositionist. Even Terry Gilliam has to bow to David McKee. Watch and learn, kids. This first episode explains it all.
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I look forward to showing this to my 3.5 year old nephew.
Good one Tim, I've often thought that there would be mileage in Mr Benn for one of those popular philosophy series books. Happy memories of a religious studies conference two years ago when all that we talked about, for nearly three hours during and after dinner, was children's television programmes of our youth. Similarly Object Oriented programmes from the same 1970s window would be the Herbs, Bagpus ("we can mend it, we can fix it") and, perhaps most powerfully, the Clangers, who were constantly having to cope with weird objects raining down on them.
The high points of my childhood TV was centered around marionettes from the UK. Fireball XL5, Stingray, supercar, Capt Scarlet, Thunderbirds.
Awe.Some.
Oh, and by the way, you are under the strictest orders to listen to the CD Monoliths and Dimensions by sunnO))).
Seriously. Their best record. ever.
sunn:
http://www.przeklej.pl/plik/sunn-o-monoliths-and-dimensions-2009-lame-b320-rar-0001rd11j56n
Paul, that's great. Yes. The Clangers is the ultimate but I must first clear the ground with Mr Benn. The long march to the Music Boat and the Iron Chicken has begun.
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