Pbs Scottish-irish Music

There is a great show on PBS right now from 7 P.M. to 9 P.M. (EST).

Scotland the Brave and
Ronan Tynan: The Impossible Dream.

Looks pretty good if you like bagpipes, Scottish and Irish Music!

You mean there are people that don't like bagpipes, Irish and Scottish music!

maggiemahone1

Hehe, yes kinda silly to say - especially on this site.

I was so excited to see the show, but they kept on interupting it looking for donations. I wish they would have showed the entire show. I think they wanted the viewers to buy it for $90!

Uh, must've been on WGBH, because I just checked my PBS affiliate and it wasn't on here in Chicago tonight. I will keep an eye out for it though.

It must have been local programming, because I did a search of PBS.org and they have nothing listed for either show.

I have looked everywhere for this live show called Scotland the Brave. Man, it had everything. Bagpipers, dancers, Burns poems with music....it was absolutely fantasticly exciting. I just can not find it anywhere and I am not about to shell out $90 to obtain the DVD.

Looked on amazon and did not see it there either. I do believe it was filmed in New Zealand. If anyone finds this on the web please let us know here!

Here is what I found, but it's region 4 (Australia)


http://shop.abc.net.au/browse/product.asp?...roductid=725412

and here is the info from WGBH:

http://www.wgbh.org/schedules/program-info...gram_id=1785458

Another link I found:

http://www.atlanticdvd.com/index_stuffer.c...id=8451~content

I found the company that manufactures/distributes the show. I emailed them inquiring if the DVD is available in the U.S. (which, if PBS was offering it, it must be somewhere).

I'll keep y'all posted

As someone who has volunteered at my local PBS station many times, let me tell you a secret: nearly any and every DVD they offer as a pledge gift can also be found at the PBS video website or in their catalog. I don't remember the exact URL, but www.pbs.org would have a link to it.

So if you ever REALLY want a DVD, don't wait for pledge time to roll around. Just visit the site and get it.

But please still support your local PBS station.


Erik Deckers

They don't have it. I already looked there first. But thanks.

Here is the response I got from the distributor (whom is in Australia):

The distributor is Roadshow Productions, apparently a division of Village Roadshow. I'll look more into it later, but if someone else wants to try to track this down, you might want to start with finding out about the U.S. company, Village Roadshow.

Check http://www.atlanticdvd.com/index_stuffer.c...iew.cfm?id=8451 It works out to about USD 18.

but it's region 4...won't play in the U.S.

MacFive, did you not tape it?

If you don't mind a bit of work there are plenty of ways around it. Doom9 is a great source of information about all things related to DVDs. Options would be to obtain or modify your home DVD player to be region free. If you have a DVD burner, you ought to be able to rip it and then make a new disc out of it. There are usually video places in town that have facilities for converting stuff from one region to another. They'd probably be able to handle the PAL to NTSC conversion if needed. I'm really rusty on all my video knowlege but that link ought to be a place where you can look around if you're passionate about having that video and no North American importers have it.