Posts Tagged ‘ Telly Savalas ’

More Telly Savalas than you can shake a lolipop at

We’ve got our edit, the Beeb have a 5 min version, but are you ready for 7 minutes of Telly Savalas Looks at Birmingham? Richard Jeffs (who you may have heard in the Radio 4 doc) has started to put some of the Baim Collection archive online. There’s top sand-dancing from Wilson, Keppel and Betty and a huge chuck of ol’TS. What are you waiting for? It’s your kinda town.

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Telly Savalas in your own home – courtesy of the Beeb

You can download the Beeb’s cut of Telly Savalas looks at Birmingham from YouTube (download mp4 link is on right hand side).

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Brum Link 28th April

Found this on teh interwebs: Speechification: Telly Savalas and the Quota Quickies – Hear the laughs of a contemporary Brum audience at the vision of their city shown in ‘Telly Savalas looks at Birmingham’. mp3

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Telly Savalas on Radio 4

Just found out that the Radio 4 documentary about Telly Savalas’ Birmingham film (and the Portsmouth and Aberdeen ones he made) will be on Saturday at 10:30am. It should feature some clips from the screening recently held at the Library Theatre. It’ll be on listen again for a week and I shall endeavour to put up an mp3 up (if the wondrous speechification- now a podcast, woo! – doesn’t). As a special treat, here’s a new edit of the film showing different bits to our exclusive version:

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Seventies Brum Film Double Header – and Telly on the Radio

Seventies Brum Film Double Header – and Telly on the Radio

On Wednesday Feb 13th at the Library Theatre (more details at the end) there’s a fantastic double bill of our favourite Brum films of the seventies – Take Me High and Telly Savalas Looks At Birmingham: TAKE ME HIGH gives us a glimpse of Birmingham when it was booming in the 1970s. New buildings were springing up all about and there was a confidence in the air. Even though Birmingham had the reputation for being the “workshop of the world” and therefore a dirty and industrial city, in the film TAKE ME HIGH we see Birmingham as an improving and booming place – a place to stay and enjoy. The film is also a hilarious romantic comedy! The showing will be preceded by the short cinema feature TELLY SAVALAS LOOKS AT BIRMINGHAM, which has proved popular with audiences not only for its now ironically funny commentary by the great American actor – but also for showing Birmingham as a clean bright sunny place. But that’s not the best bit – a special message will be announced before the screening of ‘Take Me High’ for the event sent direct from Sir Cliff Richard himself! And even more – BBC Radio...

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