{"id":531,"date":"2004-01-11T13:50:43","date_gmt":"2004-01-11T13:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2004\/01\/night_mail\/"},"modified":"2004-01-11T13:50:43","modified_gmt":"2004-01-11T13:50:43","slug":"night_mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2004\/01\/night_mail\/","title":{"rendered":"Night Mail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sadly we&#8217;ve now seen the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/uk_news\/story\/0,3604,1119873,00.html\">last<\/a> of the mail trains, with<br \/>\nOf course many remember the wonderful WH Auden poem, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newearth.demon.co.uk\/poems\/lyric206.htm\">Night Mail<\/a> (copyright <i>Faber &#038; Faber<\/i>), which was commissioned by the GPO for a 1936 film.<br \/>\nSometime television companies are so slow. The date for this has been known for sometime, and surely repeat of that wonderful film yesterday afternoon rather than another <i>Some Mothers Do &#8216;Ave &#8216;Em<\/i> would have been worthwhile move. At least it is available on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackstar.co.uk\/video\/item\/7000000075289\">DVD<\/a> (a wee bit overpriced at eighteen quid I would say), with another classic rail film.<br \/>\nWhat would be the equivalent today? Releasing a series of advertisements on DVD? There surely wouldn&#8217;t be much demand for many corporate videos.<br \/>\nNow I must go away and listen to Coronation Scot by Vivian Ellis, as used for the Paul Temple theme&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sadly we&#8217;ve now seen the last of the mail trains, with Of course many remember the wonderful WH Auden poem, Night Mail (copyright Faber &#038; Faber), which was commissioned by the GPO for a 1936 film. Sometime television companies are so slow. The date for this has been known for sometime, and surely repeat of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}