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Dream Car Fixers (2024)
Interesting, informative and gently amusing
You will not get the in-your-face humour that Car SOS gives you, and Alex Riley is very restrained in his commentary ( for a change!).
However this is an entertaining and informative hour showing what can be done if you buy a good base car, and then bring it back to very good and genuinely usable condition. It is not aimed at taking rust-buckets and throwing huge amounts of time and money at the car. The two excellent mechanics have the quietly humorous rapport that comes from being mates and working together for years. Working within a strict budget, with-they hope-a profit at the end of the show, but without taking short-cuts either, they then add extra touches that make the finished vehicle that bit better than you would expect for the money.
Well worth a watch.
School for Secrets (1946)
Delightful film, entertaining and amusing
Don't watch this film if you are looking for technical details on radar development, as one 'boffin' reviewer has done. This was written and acted as entertainment, not an educational film, and as such it succeeds. Never seen it before this afternoon, but thoroughly enjoyed watching some of our finest actors from that period, with witty banter that was typical of that era. Recommended as a reminder that we still had a sense of humour, despite the recent end to WWII.
Race Across the World (2019)
a absorbing reflection on travel without 'planes and mobile phones
Thoroughly enjoyable programme showing the realities of travelling without the 'benefits' of air-travel or mobile phones. Ignore the call from one misguided reviewer who wants a 'presenter' and road-blocks etc. There are enough natural barriers of weather and border crossing closures, plus dwindling finances to add some believeable hazards to the journey. Don't mess with what works.