A compilation from the BBC archive of performances featuring songs written by, or associated with, Neil Diamond. Featuring Lulu, UB40, Vince Hill, Robert Wyatt, Gladys Knight, Urge Overkill, Lena Zavaroni, The Hollies and a duet by Neil Diamond and Shirley Bassey.

As you can see now to make archive research much harder then it already was the BBC Genome Project is now switching some content to using the PID identifiers instead of the date and time so making it much hard to get reliable dates and times for the reason you will see below as to it being only on BBC Two Northern Ireland I am not convinced that was the case, but as I only got the BBC data which is questionable I can only it add it to that category for now.

Even the editors of the page for ...Sings Neil Diamond is confused

...Sings Neil Diamond got it's first broadcast on 14 November 2010 but shows up on the schedules page for 13 November 2010, so even the editors of the page is confused by how the BBC lists it's programmes as the BBC ignore the fact that the date changes as midnight and so the schedules page gives the date as 14 November 2010, but if you go to that date in the schedules it will be missing and you have to go to the day before.

It is also true for the repeat on 20 November 2016 to see it in the BBC schedules page you have to go to the day before so the 19 November 2016 and mostly is the same for all the other late night repeats as the BBC as do many broadcasters ignore real world time and act as if the date does not change until sometime in the middle of the night.

As that is true of many other dates and programmes, if you are researching content always remember to check the day before in the BBC listings.

When it gets shown on BBC Four HD or any of the BBC's HD channels it still looks like the SD version which is something the BBC does, but is not transparent about that SD content is still show on in the SD format on what is meant to be HD channels and may at best just had the content recoded to 1080p which does not make it HD or FHD.

Robcamstone

Other examples of how little broadcast history matters to the BBC

Music Played

Note: because of Changes to the BBC Music website the following links now go to the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine so that we can still view the content.

Archive of Comments from the closed Facebook Page: Fanz of Lena Zavaroni

Fanz of Lena Zavaroni

11 March 2019 19:35

My feedback to the BBC on "...Sings Neil Diamond

Pleased to see that this programme is getting another repeat broadcast. While I enjoy all the singers in the programme, I wish to inform the BBC that there is still a large number of fans that remember Lena Zavaroni and would love to see her shows get repeated as currently we only get to see her in "...Sings Neil Diamond and once in a while when you repeat the two of the three episodes of TOTP she performed on.

This year is the 20th anniversary of her death so an in-depth documentary would also be in order. Ideally with Louis Theroux as I feel he would be up to asking the difficult questions that have so far gone unanswered.

Thanks for reading my feedback,

Robcamstone (Fanz of Lena Zavaroni).


Fanz of Lena Zavaroni

13 March 2019 19:40

BBC Reply to my email giving feedback on "...Sings Neil Diamond"

Content of eMail:

Hi Robert, Thank you for getting in touch, it's lovely to hear from you!

I appreciate that you feel the BBC should add programmes regarding Lena Zavaroni to their output, it's amazing to read of such passion for her and her work. As much as I would like to be able to fulfil your wishes, I'm afraid that I am in no position to make any promises.

That said, we always appreciate it when people share their ideas and make suggestions. This is what shapes the direction and the future of the BBC.

You may wish to keep an eye on BBC Media Centre. All information about new and upcoming programmes can be found there. Here's the link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre

Thanks again for contacting us.

All the best,

Emma Nesbitt

BBC Enquiries Team

Emma Nesbitt, BBC Enquiries Team, 13 March 2019


Note

...Sings Neil Diamond was scheduled for a broadcast on BBC Four on the 23 March 2019 at 00:30 but the broadcast never went ahead why I don't know. When the BBC pulls a broadcast it just updates the TV listings for the day and does not indicate that a programme had been pulled or the reason why.

It was that scheduled date that triggered me to contact the BBC and the remove of the broadcast was not even brought up in the email reply.

if you check the schedules pages for 24 March 2019 you will see that ...Sings Neil Diamond was replaced by David Cassidy: The Last Session in the schedule for the 24 March 2019 but unless like me you saw ...Sings Neil Diamond listed you will not know it was replaced and as I made clear by now its programme page show it as the 25 March 2019.