Brains Trust (1958) BBC4, now

[laptop]

You have about eight minutes to catch the end of the slowest, wordiest and most u75-like piece of TV imaginable.

Back after that...

 

[Donna Ferentes]

most u75-like piece of TV imaginable.

Would that be because of the deployment of brains?

 

[laptop]

Would that be because of the deployment of brains?

Yehudi Menuhin, Jakob Bronowski, Malcolm Sergeant (yes, there may have been brains there) and some other geezer in a tweed jacket, discussing what makes the difference between good and bad music. For at least half an hour.

Bearing in mind that on this particular Sunday afternoon in (I think) 1958 this was the only thing on. Imagine someone turned off all the forums except Theory

Mind you, the dissection of Freud that started in our sitting room when we stopped boggling at how untelevisual it was was deeper than their chat

 

[Donna Ferentes]

It sounds absolutely fantastic.

 

[floopadelic]

I saw some of this, Yehudi was great I thought, he outclassed the others no problem I was really impressed with his communication skills, I've heard he can play a bit as well

Bronowski didn't come across well at all to me, sneaky and weasel-tongued, while Malcolm Seargent was a bit too arrogant, but his basic points were sound enough in the bit I saw.

The tweed boke was totally out of his depth, I'm guessing he was the compere or something?

But who would you have on it these days? Not those plonkers from the late review for sure

 

[StuPC]

Ah, why aren't there more blokes in tweed on TV...? No wonder the public have lost faith in intellectuals and scientists - it's because of the televisual tweed famine!

 

[nino_savatte]

Ah, why aren't there more blokes in tweed on TV...? No wonder the public have lost faith in intellectuals and scientists - it's because of the televisual tweed famine!

Why not have a digital channel called "Tweed TV"?