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The North East of England. Home to the Geordies, the Mackems, the Pit-Yakkers, the Poolies and the Smoggies.
About 3 million of us occupy this canny little place: filled with vast history, heritage, and – unfortunately – reality TV horrors.
Our hometowns are portrayed to the watching world through the mining villages of Billy Elliott, Catherine Cookson prose, or the Fanta-faced sex beasts of Geordie Shore. It’s a wonder the rest of Europe know there’s any normal inhabitants in these once Viking-invaded lands.
Still, some marvellous wonders have risen from this old chunk of Britain: Mr Bean is from Durham; Sting from Northumberland; Lucozade was originally made in a small chemist in Newcastle… and of course, there’s Greggs. It was Geordie music producer Chas Chandler who first discovered Jimi Hendrix and brought him to Newcastle and George Stephenson – the “Father of Railways” – who built the first inter-city railway line.
The North East of England. Home to the Geordies, the Mackems, the Pit-Yakkers, the Poolies and the Smoggies.
About 3 million of us occupy this canny little place: filled with vast history, heritage, and – unfortunately – reality TV horrors.
Our hometowns are portrayed to the watching world through the mining villages of Billy Elliott, Catherine Cookson prose, or the Fanta-faced sex beasts of Geordie Shore. It’s a wonder the rest of Europe know there’s any normal inhabitants in these once Viking-invaded lands.
Still, some marvellous wonders have risen from this old chunk of Britain: Mr Bean is from Durham; Sting from Northumberland; Lucozade was originally made in a small chemist in Newcastle… and of course, there’s Greggs. It was Geordie music producer Chas Chandler who first discovered Jimi Hendrix and brought him to Newcastle and George Stephenson – the “Father of Railways” – who built the first inter-city railway line.
- 4/7/2014
- by Nina Cresswell
- Obsessed with Film
Humphrey Jennings's purpose was clear: to present the human history of the industrial revolution
When factory chimneys reared up during the Olympic opening ceremony I thought at once: "Pandaemonium – he must have read it" – then "Oh nonsense, it was published almost 30 years ago and one never sees it around nowadays." But Danny Boyle had, indeed, read it. Humphrey Jennings's great work did inspire an occasion with which nearly everyone in this country was going to fall in love.
Jennings is most often remembered for the documentary films he made about Britain at war. His daughter Marie-Louise, who (with their friend Charles Madge) edited Pandaemonium, prefaces a new edition of it with a brief account of his life that shows how many and how various were his gifts. Erudite scholar, painter, poet, film-maker – before he died in an accident at the age of 43 it must have been hard to...
When factory chimneys reared up during the Olympic opening ceremony I thought at once: "Pandaemonium – he must have read it" – then "Oh nonsense, it was published almost 30 years ago and one never sees it around nowadays." But Danny Boyle had, indeed, read it. Humphrey Jennings's great work did inspire an occasion with which nearly everyone in this country was going to fall in love.
Jennings is most often remembered for the documentary films he made about Britain at war. His daughter Marie-Louise, who (with their friend Charles Madge) edited Pandaemonium, prefaces a new edition of it with a brief account of his life that shows how many and how various were his gifts. Erudite scholar, painter, poet, film-maker – before he died in an accident at the age of 43 it must have been hard to...
- 10/12/2012
- by Diana Athill
- The Guardian - Film News
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