Typophile - Gutenberg documentary on BBC tv tonight - Comments

YouTube verion linked to

sii — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 18:26:30 -0700

YouTube verion linked to SpiekerBlog...
http://www.spiekermann.com/mten/2008/04/gutenberg_the_movie.html

There is a very good article

Ken Brooks — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 08:49:51 -0700

There is a very good article by Alan May in the current Journal of the Printing Historical Society, Journal number 11 on his reconstruction of the one-pull press

RE: iplayer Again, this is

Eben Sorkin — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 20:45:21 -0700

RE: iplayer

Again, this is for folks in the *UK only*.

ATTENTION——————

Ashleyco — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:05:39 -0700

ATTENTION————————

: For anyone wishing to view this program .....

It is currently available to watch online at : www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer

just type {Stephen Fry and the Gutenberg Press} and it should come up.

I watched it yesterday , real interesting stuff....

AGL Use the link Andy Keck

Don McCahill — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 08:07:03 -0700

AGL

Use the link Andy Keck supplied. It works well (it is an hour long, I think, so make sure you have time).

In the UK to watch

vinceconnare — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 06:31:53 -0700

In the UK to watch television or when you buy a television device you need a license which is used to fund the BBC.

http://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/information/index.jsp

I followed Nick Cooke’s

AGL — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:26:51 -0700

I followed Nick Cooke’s link but the bbc-iplay doesn’t play if you are outside of the UK...

If anyone wants to archive

kidcranium — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:11:47 -0700

If anyone wants to archive this for reference, you can still use the link:http://www.dontpressme.com/video/gutenberg.html

Then download TubeTV for the Mac, and extract it. Watching it on my iPhone now :)

Thanks for the link, I love it.

“Or watch it streaming

Katharina — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 03:04:40 -0700

“Or watch it streaming here:”

Thank you, Andy!

Martin Andrews is a great

vinceconnare — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 01:09:23 -0700

Martin Andrews is a great friendly and knowledgeable man. He was one of my favourite Reading people. Good to see him there in my typeface.

A torrent of this program is

Andy Keck — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 21:51:57 -0700

A torrent of this program is available in the usual places. Or watch it streaming here:

http://www.dontpressme.com/video/gutenberg.html

as shared by some kind person on the LETPRESS mailing list.

Monsterously cool.

Eben Sorkin — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:12:02 -0700

Monsterously cool.

This sort of thing often

Linda Cunningham — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 08:33:19 -0700

This sort of thing often shows up (well, eventually!) on BBC World also, which was recently made a Tier 1 (basic) cable channel here in Canada, as well as BBC Canada, which is a premium digital service.

for those who can receive

dtw — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 03:59:41 -0700

for those who can receive it, I believe this programme is repeated on BBC2 (so no digital or broadband required) NEXT Friday....

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Very interesting, and quite

olho — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:45:08 -0700

Very interesting, and quite a voyage. It is not unreasonable to suggest the printing press is man’s most civilising invention. Makes me want to get inky.

I have an mpeg copy recorded yesterday, but it’s a bit big at 1.6Gb. Of course, if I could squish it I’d never suggest any of you non-Brits might want to contact me, as that would be plainly contrary to my every moral sinew.

Gutenberg documentary on BBC tv tonight

Richard Hards — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:03:37 -0700

Tonight on BBC Four at 9o’clock, repeated at 01:15 and 02:45am

Stephen Fry and the Gutenberg Press

Another (better) link

Showing as part of the Medieval season. Stephen Fry goes in search of the story behind the inventor of the printing press, Johann Gutenberg, travelling across Europe to find out how Gutenberg kept his development work secret, and how his approach started a cultural revolution.

In order to fully understand the man and his machine, Stephen assembles a team to help him build a copy of Gutenberg’s printing press as well as learning how to make the paper and type so that they can print as Gutenberg once did.