Carry On Britain
My Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins article revealed my love for the comic output of the British film industry, and the Carry On films are perhaps the most famous examples of this. The Archive Hour programme on Radio 4 tomorrow (26 July) looks at the films from a social history perspective, one which hasn’t really been explored, and of which I heartily approve. It’s broadcast at 8pm BST, but Brits can listen again on the BBC iPlayer or via the Radio 4 website.
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- By Tanya Jones
- Posted on Friday, July 25 2008 @ 6:27 pm
- Categorised in Radio
- Tagged with comedy, social comment, carry on, social history
- 3 comments
>one which hasn’t really been explored
I think it has. I remember seeing a documentary on telly a few years ago where the “Carry On…” films were placed in their social context and it pointed out that whilst the first few seemed quite daring in their brazen use of sexual innuendo in the early 1960s the late 1970s films which used the same humour seemed dated and lame in the context of the post-1960s more sexually-liberated society.
Annoyingly, I can’t recall what the doco was called or when it was broadcast.
By Zagrebo
July 25, 2008 @ 10:03 pm
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Ah, that’s interesting, as the woman who made the programme was pushing it on the basis that it hadn’t been done before. Although, now you mention it, I think I do remember a programme about the representation of women in Carry Ons; was it that?
By Tanya Jones
July 25, 2008 @ 10:26 pm
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Not sure but I don’t think so. I seem to remember that it was about the history of the “Carry On…” films generally but it certainly discussed them in the social context they were released in.
By Zagrebo
July 25, 2008 @ 10:33 pm
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