The Story of the Guitar

SexyGreyFox · 5 Oct 2008 at 18:56

DOCUMENTARY: The Story of the Guitar
On: BBC 1 Midlands (101)
Date: Sunday 5th October 2008 (starting in 3 hours and 24 minutes)
Time: 22:20 to 23:20 (1 hour long)

In the Beginning. Series 1, episode 1.
Alan Yentob embarks on a three-part personal journey to discover how the guitar became the world's favourite musical instrument. Beginning with the rise of the acoustic guitar, the series takes him from an ancient Middle Eastern ancestor of the lute, to the iconic guitars draped round the necks of Bill Hailey and Elvis Presley and beyond. Featuring interviews with Bert Weedon, Pete Townshend, Bill Bailey, flamenco player Paco Pena and classical guitarist John Williams.

helmet · 5 Oct 2008 at 21:24

Cheers for the heads up, this should be brilliant.
Any of you who don't have access, it is being picked up by Zattoo:
http://zattoo.com/

Think Iplayer will catch this too?

tuffty747 · 5 Oct 2008 at 21:41

Cheers for the heads up, looks a really interesting programme, will be a good watch

Cybermyk · 5 Oct 2008 at 21:42

I notice BBC4 are having a guitar night next Friday too

Cob · 5 Oct 2008 at 21:44

Going to have to be watched on iPlayer.

Wonder which idiot thought it would be a good idea to schedule it at the same time as the footie on BBC2.

cokecan · 5 Oct 2008 at 23:23

that was pretty awesome

quite a nice bit of background into where the guitar came from

Can't wait for the next ep

BTW, it's repeated on BBC 4 on the 10th Oct at 23:00 if anyone missed it (might end up on iplayer too)

"andy" · 5 Oct 2008 at 23:38

the whole bbc imagine series has been pretty amazing to be fair !

imagine : werner herzog was one of best things ive caught on tv in a long time. so was this tonight

Robosapien · 5 Oct 2008 at 23:38

Someone thought it would be an awesome idea to put wires on some wood. Then someone invented electricity. The end.

Nah seriously, I will dl this on i player when I have time.

helmet · 5 Oct 2008 at 23:41

Good start, some cracking clips in there from playing to the making.
I'd never even heard of Django Reinhardt.

easyrider · 5 Oct 2008 at 23:42

Great documentary.

Glad they mentioned the Martin Guitar.

Goes off to sell a kidney and look for a Anderson Dreadnought

Naffa · 6 Oct 2008 at 00:00

I'll try and get a hold of this, a really interesting subject. I'm good friends with Alan Yentob.

easyrider · 6 Oct 2008 at 00:04

Looking on the imagine website and cannot for the life of me find the videos of BB KING etc...Mentioned at the end of the show.

Nitefly · 6 Oct 2008 at 14:48

I really enjoyed it! How many episodes are there going to be? I'd love for there to be 3 or 4, will be really interesting to see what they cover in the later episodes. I was also impressed with who they got to speak about it. Good to see they got Jango in there - legend!

cokecan · 6 Oct 2008 at 14:56

as far as I know its going to be a 3-part series, so 2 more eps to go, with the next one looking at electric guitars

stude1983 · 6 Oct 2008 at 15:16

caught a bit of it before i went to bed last night and bill bailey was on it with his flying v, ill see if its on i-player when i get home from work as it looked quite interesting...

easyrider · 7 Oct 2008 at 16:33

Available on Iplayer if you missed it.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00dyhyt/

platypus · 7 Oct 2008 at 16:45

dmpoole said:
Alan Yentob embarks on a three-part personal journey to discover how the guitar became the world's favourite musical instrument.

What?

SexyGreyFox · 7 Oct 2008 at 16:48

platypus said:
What?

Alan Yentob embarks on a three-part personal journey to discover how the guitar became the world's favourite musical instrument.

easyrider · 7 Oct 2008 at 17:02

platypus said:
What?

Alan Yentob embarks on a three-part personal journey to discover how the guitar became the world's favourite musical instrument.

Cybermyk · 7 Oct 2008 at 17:56

Eh? Its about five to six.