John Maguire
speaker
152 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 9 Aug
John Maguire’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Appearances
The Wildlife of Connemara, one of the most beautiful places on the planet.
It's presented by the naturalist Owen Warner.
Filmed over the course of a year, so we get four seasons in what Warner calls this impossible maze of islands, mountains and vast boglands where few roads travel.
So there's a touch of poetry to this man, Warner, and he gets out there with his camera and you get basking sharks and grey seals off the coast, red deer roaming beneath the 12 bends, pine martins in the spectacular Connemara National Park.
All this coffee you don't see when you go to Connemara.
No, you don't.
All you see is the back of a French caravan, in my experience.
But anyway, and he is exploring this in the company of the people that live and work there.
So it's a nature documentary, social history, a conservation story, very much so.
Stunningly photographed and beautifully scored with traditional Irish music and delivered by somebody, Warner, who wears his expertise lightly, which is what you want at half six on a Sunday.
One of the best TV shows.
Yeah, I like a speculative history, a kind of an alternate history, speculative sci-fi.
What if is the big question.
And this is the story of the space race in the 1960s.
For all mankind told the story from the American point of view, Star City, which is titled after the secret city where the cosmonauts lived and trained, tells it from the Soviet point of view, which is really fascinating because you've got it's far more dangerous on the ground than it is in space.
You've got the KGB and the White Witch played by Anna Maxwell Martin.
She's the KGB leader.
intelligence officer who's trying to keep this secret, trying to stop anything from leaking.
And she rules with an iron fist over the chief designers, played by Riz Sifans.
He's in control of everything.
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