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Post by Polina on Sept 12, 2008 21:03:00 GMT -1
I'm just looking forward to proving to my husband that I am not the only person in the world who can throw a screaming wobbly fit!
Ooh, we have a broadcast date for part one. 9:00 - 10:00pm on 23rd Sept, BBC2. I'm assuming part two is a week later.
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Post by Polina on Sept 12, 2008 22:36:02 GMT -1
Fanny Bones, you are already most wise!
Has anyone seen the trailer for this? (*gulp*)
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Post by Deleted on Sept 13, 2008 10:24:31 GMT -1
yes!!! it looks really quite interesting haha i actually look forward to the adverts now in hope of catching it >< lol saaaaaaad
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Post by Deleted on Sept 13, 2008 10:32:46 GMT -1
"23 & 30 September 2008 BBC Two 9 pm" woop woop ;D
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Post by Lady Jacqueline on Sept 13, 2008 15:41:36 GMT -1
Has everyone seen this advert apart from me
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Post by mircalla on Sept 15, 2008 17:43:37 GMT -1
I've just popped in to say how much I'm looking forward to this programme, not least as someone who can totally lose it herself!
My daughter (who is just starting her clinical psychology) and I will both be watching with professional interest. Not being able to cope with anger is a HUGE problem when working in mental health but many people are too ashamed to admit how bad their problem is. Persuading people to acknowledge it and seek help is very important. I can wait to see what Griff makes of the various approaches he tries.
I think it's very brave of him to make this programme and it will help a lot of people. He's rocketing up in my estimation for doing this.
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Post by Polina on Sept 15, 2008 19:43:41 GMT -1
I'm looking forward to seeing how this goes. I've got such a hot temper I'm hoping for some tips...there's a fine line between losing it productively and not productively and I am never too sure I'm treading with any degree of skill. I'm fascinated to see how this goes. And I think it's hugely brave to do something such as this when your public reputation is so based on being rather sensible.
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Post by yorkielass on Sept 18, 2008 6:55:52 GMT -1
interview about this programme
HELLO magazine p121
Issue 23rd Sept.
Disclaimer - had to buy 'celebrity magazine' for daughters English homework.
Got lucky re GRJ
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Post by Polina on Sept 18, 2008 7:21:34 GMT -1
Oh top job, yorkie. I'd never have found it....
(and we believe you, *sporfle*)
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2008 17:31:43 GMT -1
uhuh uhuh i dont recal using any magazines for english homework hahaha
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Post by Polina on Sept 23, 2008 9:37:58 GMT -1
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Post by Lady Jacqueline on Sept 23, 2008 11:06:06 GMT -1
Hey, guess what Pol, I actually caught the trailer for this. Looks to be very emotional.
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Post by Polina on Sept 23, 2008 12:24:08 GMT -1
The write up of episode 2 in the Radio Times looks excellent too.
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Post by Alison on Sept 23, 2008 20:45:09 GMT -1
Fascinating programme, and for me (one of those resolutely calm folk of whom the psychologist was so suspicious ) a fascinating insight into the mind of the perennially enraged. Griff clearly found it very tough to find out that his tantrums, even when not intended as personal attacks, were sometimes difficult and hurtful for people close to him. Looking forward to the next installment.
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Post by Polina on Sept 24, 2008 8:36:49 GMT -1
I really enjoyed this and thought it was excellent; I found it interesting and periodically affecting.
I do need to say right at the beginning, although it may strike at the heart of the rationale behind the documentary, that for large chunks of it I didn't think he seemed particularly over the top; mind you, I come from a rather volatile family, so we are probably not the best yardstick.
I was discussing this with some of my colleagues from an infamous contract (that I worked on for ten years, so it wasn't too debilitating) where the director routinely lost the plot with us collectively and individually, and we were all agreed that the differentiating factor was Griff's apparent lack of rancour; that there was a difference between the verbal articulation of immense exasperation and frustration and vituperative abuse, and that the former could be coped with (in fact often safely and even affectionately ignored as Going Off On One) whereas the latter was impossible to live with. I think it is very much what you are used to; but that doesn't make it admirable, I suppose.
I loved the interviews - Heston Blumenthal and George Galloway particularly, both of whom went up in my estimation as a result (not for losing the plot, but for knowing how to control it!) - and as ever thought he interviewed well (it's a complete joy to have someone articulate talking to intellligent people; most interviewers make me start screaming at the tv in exasperation that they can ask such damnfool questions. Angry much?). And I thought he was remarkably patient with the ghastly Big Brother moppet - a Cindy doll possessed by the shade of Vicky Pollard; gloss and plastic sprung to scary and malevolent life. I'm I being unfair? She scared me.
The interviews with his family were a joy. Mrs RJ has my undying admiration.
I was vaguely surprised that his PA found it so unpleasant - but that is the point, I suppose. If there was a single thing to take from this programme so far, for me it was the realisation that because you know it doesn't really matter when you lose the plot, it doesn't make it any easier for the people on the other end. It's certainly making me take a bit of a look at my own behaviour, which I had always assumed was fundamentally Ok and, more importantly, fundamentally understood, but I think now that may be monumental self-absorption rather that essential decency coming to the fore.
I'm really looking forward to next week's programme. Top stuff, and very thought provoking.
And now, I must go and finish an argument with an idiot on the BBC message board. You can't let these people get away with it, you know. ;D
PS: - In case anyone laboured under the misapprehension that Pol had been temporarily by someone not shallow and juvenile, then I should like to say two words to the editor or camerman or whoever it is that organises which shots get shown:- Thank you. Thankyouthankyouthankyou.
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