The Old Grey Whistle Test Story (2007) - BBC Documentary TV Film ...
The Old Grey Whistle Test Story
Jo Brand narrates a profile of the BBC's first flagship live music programme, The Old Grey Whistle Test, which ran from 1971-1987.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1209347/
Jo Brand narrates a profile which celebrates the life and times of the BBC's first flagship live music programme,
The Old Grey Whistle Test, which ran from 1971 to 1987.
It looks at the music, the presenters, the TV rivals, the sparse studio and the legacy,
finds out why Bob Harris whispered, what Sid Vicious tried to do to him
and what Camel did with a woodwind quartet and why.
All these questions are answered and many more,
followed by loving compilations of those early 70s years, the era that time forgot.
Video
Format................................. Matroska
File size................................ 500 MiB
Duration.............................. 39 min 23 s
Format/Info......................... Advanced Video Codec
Bit rate................................. 832 pixels
Width................................... 1 920 pixels
Height.................................. 468 pixels
Display aspect ratio............ 16:9
Frame rate........................... 25.000 FPS
Audio
Format................................. AAC LC
Format/Info......................... Advanced Audio Codec Low Complexity
Codec ID............................... A_AAC-2
Bit rate................................. 192 kb/s
Channel(s)............................ 2 channels
Sampling rate...................... 48.0 kHz