CJ
is away this week; but don't forget that to-morrow night on BBC4 is
Wine
Night
- a celebration of all things winetastic - starting with:
7.00
pm:
Last
of the Summer Wine Special
A
one-off return to the much-loved, long-running comedy series - with
the main parts being taken by much-loved, long-running wine writers.
In this special episode, 'Foggy' Dewhurst finds his taster's notes
overrun by ferrets; while Compo attempts to open a case of 1986
Château Beychevelle using a combine harvester.
Norman
Clegg
- Hugh Johnson
'Foggy'
Dewhurst
- Andrew Jefford
Compo
- Oz Clarke
Nora
Batty
- Jancis Robinson
7.30:
Michael
Portillo's Great Wine Journeys of the World
This
week, the former Member for Enfield Southgate travels at the TV
licence-payer's expense from the Central Valley Region of Chile to
the Barossa Valley of Southern Australia, via the Majestic Wine
store, Uttoxeter, and the Co-Op in Honiton.
8.30:
Phylloxera!
The Musical That Wouldn't Die
Documentary
about what became known as 'Shaftesbury Avenue's Killer Infestation':
the 1990s musical Phylloxera!,
based on the great scourge of nineteenth-century European vineyards.
The musical proved to be almost as pernicious as the original
aphid-like insect, taking seventeen years to eradicate from the West
End Stage. Michael Ball - who appeared in the original production -
talks to performers, writers and musicians who found themselves
unable not to participate in a song-filled spectacular described by
The
Times
as 'Simply excruciating'. Also appearing: Bonnie Langford, Sir David
Hare, Esther and Abi Ofarim, Ritchie Blackmore, Professor Sir Roger
Penrose, Joan Armatrading.
9.30:
Telly
Beverage Madness! Your Thirty Greatest Wine Shows!
Count
down your favourite wine, or wine-themed, TV shows from the last
fifty years - and vote for your number one, the all-time greatest
wine show! Among the candidates:
Late
Night Wine-Up
- classic wine discussion format from the 1960s
The
Rockford Oenophiles
- starring James Garner as the eponymous Sonoma Valley-based
crime-fighting detective
Thunderbirds
Are Go!
- classic 1960s marionette action series, fortified by the preferred
drink of bums and hobos across the generations
Top of
the Papes
- remember how, every Thursday night, we used to tune in to
now-disgraced BBC TV presenters uncorking the latest from a famous
French wine-making region?
Whose
Wine Is It Anyway?
- popular TV improv series (on both sides of the Atlantic) in which
comedians dispute the ownership of a glass of wine
The
Riojaford Files
- spin-off from the American original, starring Javier Bardem as the
bodega-based crime-fighting detective
Presented
by Phillip Schofield.
11.00:
Wine
Movie
Classic - My
Grapes Are Unpalatable
(1959)
Legendary
winecentric drama starring Anthony Quinn, Sophia Loren, Gert Frobe.
Quinn plays Nikos, a Greek wine-maker who sees real export potential
in his particular blend of Retsina.
Aided by gorgeous love interest Susanna and buffoonish UK wine
importer Sir Geoffrey Stirrup, he maps out a five-year business
strategy to make Retsina
the most popular wine on the British dining-table. But arch-rival
Gunther has other ideas...
Little-known movie facts: Quinn was a
secret teetoller in real life; and see if you can spot a very young
Robert Parker, playing the part of Kostas, the peasant boy.
Nikos
Kyriakou
- Anthony
Quinn
Susanna
- Sophia Loren
Gunther
Mannheim - Gert
Frobe
SIr
Geoffrey Stirrup
- Thorley Walters
Police
Chief -
Thanassis Vengos
Army
Officer -
Ernest Borgnine
Interrogator
-
Telly Savalas
Chief
Torturer
- Martin Balsam
Director:
John Ford
1.00
am: Wine
News and Weather
Tonight
from Puligny-Montrachet.
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