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"..It was a wild place. It was an undrained place. it was a naturally forested place." Jack Hargreaves' last Out of Town. Broadcast on Southern Television on 27 November 1981. For sometime I thought this was the broadcast that went out on the day my stepfather died. I'm grateful to Ian Wegg for pointing out in a blog comment on 10 July 2010 that this broadcast was not JH's last which I have yet to hear and see. The broadcast aired on the day JH died…
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"If you read the newspapers and if you - more particularly - listen to the current affairs programmes you come to the conclusion that the human race is unfit to inherit the earth and it's high time that the rats took over, so just for a change I will show you something which will restore your faith." Another episode of 'Old Country' made by Jack Hargreaves for Channel 4 in the early 1980s. My stepfather introduces an episode in which a group of dads…
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Mark D Taylor lent me the tape of this programme. Tony Herbert converted the VHS tape into an m4v file that I could float on Vimeo. James Robertson Justice features and the commentary is by Jack Hargreaves, written by Colin Willock - a 1974 Anglia Television Production
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An extract from a tape lent by Marion Bréhaut in June 2011. Cliff Michelmore introduces an episode of Day by Day, Southern Television's Regional News programme in which my stepfather chats to David Bobin about Stanley Bréhaut, his cameraman on 'Out of Town' for twenty one years. Thanks to Tony Herbert for transferring this and other tapes of Marion's to DVDs. The novelist Graham Hurley - writer among other books of superlative police procedurals…
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An episode of the 1980s Channel 4 series 'Old Country' Old Country broadcast on 22 July 1985 with Jack Hargreaves directed by Steve Wade of Lacewing Productions, filmed by Steve Wagstaff. My stepfather makes a Sunday visit to one of France's greatest stud farms founded by Napoleon to breed cavalry horses - Le Haras National du Pin near Saint-Lô in Normandy - the home of many magnificent breeds of French horse. In the second part of this whole episode…
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Thank you so much for posting Jack's films. A great and important documentation of country life brought to life through film.
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Hullo. I'm Simon, Jack's stepson. If you recorded any of JH on tape, do get in touch. What's missing from Jack's archive are the parts where he introduces an OB from his shed. I have sound, no picture. Contact me at s.j.baddeley@bham.ac.uk
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