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Tim Hall

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Ripping Yarns
« on: 27 September, 2018, 10:07:40 pm »
Ripping Yarns is being broadcast on Yesterday right now. So much more interesting than programmes about North Korea.
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IanDG

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Re: Ripping Yarns
« Reply #1 on: 27 September, 2018, 10:31:15 pm »
Quote from: Tim Hall on 27 September, 2018, 10:07:40 pm
Ripping Yarns is being broadcast on Yesterday right now. So much more interesting than programmes about North Korea.

Loved that series - thanks for the heads up

Caribou on the lawn nibbling at the croquet hoops :)
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Torslanda

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Re: Ripping Yarns
« Reply #2 on: 27 September, 2018, 10:45:32 pm »
I'm pretty sure that was Monty Python...
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VELOMANCER

Quote from: trekker12 on 16 July, 2016, 08:54:33 am
Well that's the more blunt way of putting it but as usual he's dead right.

IanDG

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Re: Ripping Yarns
« Reply #3 on: 27 September, 2018, 10:49:54 pm »
No... sure it was the same Ripping Yarns about how to pass the port.

I'm a bit shit on that sort of thing tho'

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IanDG

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Re: Ripping Yarns
« Reply #4 on: 27 September, 2018, 10:51:39 pm »
Google - I was wrong (or as they say up here 'My bad')
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IanDG

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Re: Ripping Yarns
« Reply #5 on: 27 September, 2018, 11:07:03 pm »
The Cornish custom, smashing the house up when the football team looses and passing the port were Ripping Yarns - right?
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Torslanda

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Re: Ripping Yarns
« Reply #6 on: 28 September, 2018, 08:58:34 am »
Quote from: windy on 27 September, 2018, 10:51:39 pm
Google - I was wrong (or as they say up here 'My bad')

Don't beat yourself up about it.

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Quote from: trekker12 on 16 July, 2016, 08:54:33 am
Well that's the more blunt way of putting it but as usual he's dead right.

citoyen

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Re: Ripping Yarns
« Reply #7 on: 28 September, 2018, 11:45:13 am »
Thanks for the tip-off. I loved Ripping Yarns at the time and have often wondered why it has never been repeated (to my knowledge).

Will check it out. I expect it all seems horribly dated now...
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Re: Ripping Yarns
« Reply #8 on: 28 September, 2018, 11:53:34 am »
I could certainly relate to "Tomkinson's Schooldays" while incarcerated at st custards ;D
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Re: Ripping Yarns
« Reply #9 on: 29 September, 2018, 09:43:00 pm »
Tomkinson's Schooldays was like school and The Testing Of Eric Olthwaite was like home. Happy days.
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Steph

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Re: Ripping Yarns
« Reply #10 on: 29 September, 2018, 10:42:34 pm »
Across the Andes by frog.
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Tim Hall

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Re: Ripping Yarns
« Reply #11 on: 04 October, 2018, 10:02:57 pm »
Quote from: Steph on 29 September, 2018, 10:42:34 pm
Across the Andes by frog.
Is being broadcast right now. But it's got canned laughter, which (a) is annoying and (b) I don't remember from the original.
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Tim Hall

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Re: Ripping Yarns
« Reply #12 on: 04 October, 2018, 10:06:39 pm »
Quote from: Tim Hall on 04 October, 2018, 10:02:57 pm
Quote from: Steph on 29 September, 2018, 10:42:34 pm
Across the Andes by frog.
Is being broadcast right now. But it's got canned laughter, which (a) is annoying and (b) I don't remember from the original.
Ah. Wiki says
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The series was repeated on BBC4 commencing with Tomkinson's Schooldays on 3 April 2014.[3] This broadcast included a laugh track
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