Hello again lads and lasses, just a quick word before I begin the review! I would once again like to thank everybody for listening to the podcasts, the history series has recently broken into the top 25 in the whole of the UK! This is beyond anything I dared to think about and actually a little bit scary, I will keep on trying to make great shows I just wanted to let you all know I really appreciate it!

    I thought it was about time for another review. This time of an item that has been mentioned several times in the comments section of these blog posts, the BBC 3 part series “Shooting the Past”.

   

    I had intended to watch this over the period of a week but after watching the first episode I could not control myself and had to watch the second one, the only reason that I did not watch the third one straight after it was because I had to go to work! That alone defines this as an excellent series in my book, and as I have said before I don’t review or recommend rubbish here! So the next few paragraphs will hold no surprises when it comes to how highly I think of this series!

    I never write spoilers in these reviews and on that note I will give only a very brief description of the plot. The story is based on the events around a large photo collection that is facing closure as a new business takes over the premises. It is an interesting concept at the beginning, but when they start to piece together stories from the photo’s you will understand why it is such an incredible piece of work, not only do the photo’s add a whole new dimension to the story but they also add little stories to the story! If that makes any sense! It is very difficult for me to not just write a load of detailed stuff to explain why you should watch it, however if I did this it would spoil the whole thing for you! So I wont!

    It is a well told story, and what really connected with me is the questions that it raises about the past, both of our own personal history and history in general, how we see it, and what is important, if anything. I found that as I watched I wanted to keep on powering through the episodes, and never have to find out what actually happened, just so that I could enjoy some fine drama. I am not even really into this sort of program, but the combination of a good story, interesting concepts and history all came together to make it a great little series.

    I am aware that I have babbled on incoherently about this but that is because I really don’t know the words to put across how much I recommend this to anybody at all, even if you are not into history, surely everybody loves a good story, and this is one of the best I have seen for a long time.

    Seeing as how I can’t really continue in this manner I will simply provide the links and then leave you to your day!

Thanks for reading folks,

As always look after yourself,

And have fun!

dan