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Keith Richards to curate BBC Four for a Lost Weekend

http://www.nwemail.co.uk/news/national/article/Keith-Richards-to-curate-BBC-Four-for-a-Lost-Weekend-4b2b12c3-8354-413d-b535-04fcc88fcac6-ds

1 September 2016 10:07AM

Keith Richards will "take over" BBC Four for a weekend which will see him curating the TV schedule.

The Rolling Stones guitarist, 72, is set to host three days from 7pm to 4am on Friday to Sunday, called the Lost Weekend, on the channel.

He will pick all of the programmes to be shown and will feature in between them in snippets from an in-depth interview.

Richards said: "No one has taken over a TV channel before. Let's see how it flies!"

Director Julien Temple, acclaimed for films such as The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle, will be at the helm of the project.

Temple said: "It's an open invitation for the audience to get to know Keith in-depth over three nights in a way that has never been seen before.

"As dawn breaks, those viewers who have experienced the full ride can celebrate the fact that they have been able to make it all the way and out the other side with Keith Richards as the sun comes up on their TV screens."

Films selected by Richards to be shown include Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps, The Man Who Would Be King starring Sean Connery and Michael Caine, as well as archive footage of musicians such as Johnny Cash and Richards with American guitarist and singer Jimi Hendrix.

The schedule will also feature never-before-seen archive footage of The Rolling Stones.

Temple will screen his 75-minute Director's Cut of Keith Richards - The Origin of the Species, which viewers saw on BBC Two earlier this year.

The documentary told the story of Richards' formative years in the post-war period as part of the BBC Music My Generation season.

The full schedule of what will air and when on the Lost Weekend will not be released beforehand.

Head of music TV commissioning, Jan Younghusband, said: "BBC Four is very much the musician's channel so we were thrilled when Keith agreed to curate a weekend of programming, giving viewers a truly original experience."

THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING!! great flick havent seen that in awhile

And archive Hendrix!! sweet!!

>> He will pick all of the programmes to be shown and will feature in between them in snippets from an in-depth interview. <<

Will there be English subtitles? :forfucksake

Edith Grove wrote on Sep 2^nd, 2016 at 5:41am:

>> He will pick all of the programmes to be shown and will feature in between them in snippets from an in-depth interview. <<

Will there be English subtitles? :forfucksake

they should get woody to interview

Now confirmed for the weekend of September 23-25

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/proginfo/2016/38/keith-richards-lost-weekend

Join Keith Richards for his Lost Weekend, from Friday through to Sunday, as he curates a ‘pirate broadcast’ on BBC Four. With some of the programming not being revealed in advance, viewers are invited to join him across three nights for an extraordinary televisual journey...
Keith takes control of the channel from dusk till dawn - a time when he is normally awake - keeping viewers entertained through the twilight hours with his personally selected programme choices. As well as hand-picking all the shows, Keith also features between them in an intimate and in-depth interview, specially filmed for the weekend by Julien Temple, making this a unique television experience for viewers.

Keith Richards said: “No one has taken over a TV channel before. Let's see how it flies!"

His choices tonight include the film noir The Sorcerers; Hitchcock's masterpiece The 39 Steps; and Julien Temple'sJulien 75 minutes long director's cut of his documentary - Keith Richards - The Origin Of The Species.

The night includes Keith playing guitar in the studio. In amongst this and rare music archive, performances and random night imagery, Keith enlightens viewers on his world philosophy, his views on the technological revolution, and addictions - to the internet and other substances - as well as his love of books. Keith also talks about his relationship with his parents, the process behind writing his book, and his turbulent times with the police.

Keith shares his views on fame, interspersed with a range of rare archive footage of the Rolling Stones. As well as his ruminations on being nocturnal, he talks about the power of humour, showing his favourite cartoons and the comedy shows that resonate with him.

From 7pm through to 4am, the audience will see some brilliant television and spend a unique night with one of the most famous and intriguing people in the world.

Lost Weekend continues on Saturday and Sunday night.

Don't know where this would go as far as the current topics are concerned. Anthony Bourdain just did an Ask Me Anything on Reddit. Said he wants to make a show with Keith

Managed to catch a bit last night and Gazza, this one's for you :) Keith was talking about how his father wasn't very interested in music, until he got much older and then he started listening to Bon Jovi, hahaha! Keith went on to say how he doesn't like Bon Jovi, but they do have an enormous audience, adding something that went like: "which goes to show how many idiots there are in this world" :)

BBC4 was my fav TV channel before the cuts! I wasn't too sure that this project would work BUT, despite being away for the weekend, the odd bits that I saw led me to believe it was a superb 3 night presentation. Well done BBC n Keef n Temple! Must try and watch it properly over the next 27 days on bbc iplayer.

FotiniD wrote on Sep 26^th, 2016 at 4:15am:

Good man, Keith. I dipped into the 'Lost Weekend' on and off over the three nights and if I'm being honest found it a bit hit and miss, with Keith's ramblings being as cliched as I feared they would be (talking through a constant haze of cigarette smoke was so predictable) - but that line has single handedly elevated the whole project to greatness.

Gazza wrote on Sep 26^th, 2016 at 5:58pm:

FotiniD wrote on Sep 26^th, 2016 at 4:15am:

I wish we could have seen it here in the US. Keith's bashing of other music performers gets old though. Just because someone likes a song or group that "we" don't hardly qualifies them as idiots imho.

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