Prog Brittania - BBC Four

In all honesty I thought the programme a bit poor.

No mention at all of The Moody Blues apart from playing "Thinking is the best way to travel" in the fade out at the end of the programme.

I have it recorded on HDD and will watch it again to see if my opinion changes.

[eloy1964]

Originally Posted by KeithieW

In all honesty I thought the programme a bit poor.

No mention at all of The Moody Blues apart from playing "Thinking is the best way to travel" in the fade out at the end of the programme.

I have it recorded on HDD and will watch it again to see if my opinion changes.

Hi Ted, wish we could have met up on your visit. I concur with KW, I was not too impressed with the ommissions from the programme but you would need at least 12 hours to do the subject justice. I do not agree with the punk theory either and they should have brought it right up to date. They could have interviewed people like KW!!
The best thing was that it was on the BBC and on Prog Rock which so rarely gets a mention. I would have looked at it again but the kids have already deleted it from my sky HD
Thanks Ted for bringing this up for discussion.
eloy1964

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Originally Posted by KeithieW

In all honesty I thought the programme a bit poor.

No mention at all of The Moody Blues apart from playing "Thinking is the best way to travel" in the fade out at the end of the programme.

I have it recorded on HDD and will watch it again to see if my opinion changes.

I watched this yesterday. A lot was missing -- specifically, some influential groups were elided from mention. It was also extremely anglocentric. I realize that the show's title was "Prog Britania" but it made it seem as if prog was strictly a UK phenomenon.

Also, the third part spent away too much time on the punk rock/demise of prog.