Out of Town. Jack Hargreaves.

[wanderer]

I understand this is to be shown on Monday evenings at 18:30 on Talking Pictures TV for anyone thats interested.
Channel 306 on freesat and whatever channel number on freeview.
Got to be worth a watch.

 

[Foxyboy43]

I understand this is to be shown on Monday evenings at 18:30 on Talking Pictures TV for anyone thats interested.
Channel 306 on freesat and whatever channel number on freeview.
Got to be worth a watch.

Wonderful man - essential viewing for me as a young man interested in all things country.
Series also available on the tube.

 

[Stalker62]

He was just so evocative of a time long past...

 

[Tugmanade]

I understand this is to be shown on Monday evenings at 18:30 on Talking Pictures TV for anyone thats interested.
Channel 306 on freesat and whatever channel number on freeview.
Got to be worth a watch.

Watched the first one last week, brought back some nice memories, mind you don’t realise just how rubbish the tv picture was then compared to today

 

[Dunwaters]

I watched a couple of episodes recently.
I found it more than a tad tedious to be totally honest.

 

[lochty]

Have both sets of dvd and his books.yes, rubbish picture quality but IMHO wonderful content.

 

[8x57]

I watched a couple of episodes recently.
I found it more than a tad tedious to be totally honest.

Agreed they weren't very exciting but still I enjoyed them.
Such a calm soothing tone, gave a feel good factor for the rest of the day.

Funnily enough I caught the last one he made on youtube early hours of Thursday morning. Didn't realise that it was so long ago in 1985.

 

[LuckyEddie]

I think the reason I liked it was because of its gentle pace.
Modern technology was meant to give us more leisure time - aye right!

May be life was harder in days gone by, but by heck it was more enjoyable.

 

[webley701]

‘Out of Town’ was a wonderful series. Just the right content with just the right presenter.

 

[Suilven]

Lots on YouTube, really enjoyable.

As is the Fast Show take off, Bob Fleming:

 

[Foxyboy43]

A couple of extracts from this amazing man’s Wiki entry
“Jack Hargreaves OBE (31 December 1911 – 15 March 1994), full name John Herbert Hargreaves, was an English television presenter and writer whose enduring interest was to comment without nostalgia or sentimentality on accelerating distortions in relations between the city and the countryside, seeking – in entertaining ways – to question and rebut metropolitan assumptions about its character and function.”. And

“He became of the opinion that one of the best ways to reserve the countryside for its proper purpose was to keep most people out of it”.

A true countryman whose laid back style utterly belied his many talents and what he did for the medium of television.

 

[Len the dog]

I remember watching this with my Dad when I was only a young lad, that and programmes with Fred Dibnah.

 

[Jura]

WTF; devoicing a mule because he doesn’t like the sound !!!

 

[Triggermortis]

You’ve obviously never owned a mule?

 

[User00057]

Dad and I would watch it when i was growing up. Bumped into him a couple of times In Winchester.

 

[VIGILAIRE]

Chanel 82 on my free view, great program.

 

[NewForester]

I was told by a local (who claimed to know) that Jack Hargreaves was something of a Ladies' Man in his day.

I don't know why I found that surprising! Perhaps it was just that as I was watching him as a boy, he came across as a grandfatherly figure.

 

[Klenchblaize]

The box set of DVD’s aren’t that expansive. Assuming you have something to play them on.

K