Movies: Stuart Maconie

  • 2014
    God Help the Girl

    God Help the Girl (2014)

    God Help the Girl

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    Eve is a catastrophe—low on self-esteem but high on fantasy, especially when it comes to music. Over the course of one Glasgow summer, she meets two similarly rootless souls: posh Cass and fastidious James, and together they form a group....

    God Help the Girl
  • 2017
    Manic Street Preachers: Escape from History

    Manic Street Preachers: Escape from History (2017)

    Manic Street Preachers: Escape from History

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    This film delves into the writing, rehearsing and recording of the seminal 1996 album Everything Must Go. Released at the height of Britpop, the album was a critical and commercial success however, it was also produced under intense emotional pressur...

    Manic Street Preachers: Escape from History
  • 2014
    Britain's Most Dangerous Songs: Listen to the Banned

    Britain's Most Dangerous Songs: Listen to the Banned (2014)

    Britain's Most Dangerous Songs: Listen to the Banned

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    From My Little Stick of Blackpool Rock to God Save the Queen, this is the story of ten records from the 1930s to the present day that have been banned by the BBC. The reasons why these songs were censored reveals the changing controversies around you...

    Britain's Most Dangerous Songs: Listen to the Banned
  • 2024
    When ABBA Came to Britain

    When ABBA Came to Britain (2024)

    When ABBA Came to Britain

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    With previously unheard interviews with the band and new interviews with those who met them, this is the story of ABBA’s love affair with the UK since their Eurovision triumph....

    When ABBA Came to Britain
  • 2018
    Suede: The Insatiable Ones

    Suede: The Insatiable Ones (2018)

    Suede: The Insatiable Ones

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    Looking at identity, power, happiness, self-destruction and acceptance, this is a thematic exploration of a group that opened the door for Britpop and led the way for a new era of guitar music....

    Suede: The Insatiable Ones
  • 2020
    Investigating the Ladykillers

    Investigating the Ladykillers (2020)

    Investigating the Ladykillers

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    Program focuses on the lasting appeal and cinematic brilliance of The Ladykillers. Included in it are clips from interviews with broadcaster and author Stuart Maconie, film editor Catherine Shoard, actor and writer Reece Shearsmith, and author Ronald...

    Investigating the Ladykillers
  • 1990
    Madchester: The Sound of the North

    Madchester: The Sound of the North (1990)

    Madchester: The Sound of the North

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    Exploring the 'Madchester' music phenomena of the late '80s and early '90s. The band Northside appears in interview, rehearsal, live in concert and even at work; Central Station Design in their studio creating something out of a pane of glass and loa...

    Madchester: The Sound of the North