Just listening to Django Reinhart's "Variations" (1938) and immediately thought of Jack Hargreaves' OoT. Have I got it right? Was that the theme? Anyone know?
Incidentally, never seen this site before.
I'm suffering from a bad bout of nostalgia!

Well, sort of! I watched a repeat programme written and narrated by Sean Lock lamenting the decline and disappearance of the "traditional British Sunday" It was actually very funny and although it poked gentle fun at how we used to be, it did actually evoke quite skilfully the Sundays of old, which for children like me (I'm now 53) were mind numbingly boring and for adults mind numbingly peaceful. And when it came to Television, sandwiched between clips of "Going for a Song" and "Last of the Summer Wine" there was a clip of Jack, in his shed/studio, lamenting the passing of the older slower thoughtful ways in favour of ...and here Jack reeled of an impressive litany of devices such as the microchip, the mobile phone, the personal computer...... Sean Lock was not too harsh on Jack, commenting mildly on how many saws does one man need to own; and what was most pleasing for me was that after all this time Sean Lock felt no need to explain to viewers who he was!
It would be churlish to complain that In the Southern TV region at least, Out of Town went out on Friday evening at 6:30pm, although I believe "Old Country" went out originally on Channel 4 on a Sunday, so a little editorial inaccuracy, but anyway, good to see him on the box.

Hi all - its on - OOT2

Go to www.countrychannel.tv

http://www.countrychannel.tv/coming_soon.php

And there will be some exciting news regarding some of Jack's films in the near future!

Reading requests for episodes of 'Out of Town' and other series in which he was involved it may help to make clear that a lot no longer exists. That's how TV was befire the spread of easy reproduction of film by the makers and by viewers. A number of the films JH and Stan Bréhaut made together exist as videos and DVDs. This material is not the same as the originally broadcast versions of 'Out of Town'. Southern Television OoT tapes, started working with Steve Wade, also retired, and with whom he had worked on 'How'. At the village hall at Meonstoke, Hampshire, Jack and Steve sorted, edited, rehashed and broadcast new versions of 'Out of Town' on Channel 4. The finished versions of these are now owned by Southern Star International Limited who bought them from Jack and have been reissuing them on DVD through a variety of channels. My family and the late Steve Wade's benefit from royalties on these in accordance with Jack's wishes. They comprise:

1. Appleby Fair/Ramming Time, New Forest Point to Point/Apple Grafting and Kingfishers/Model Carts
2. Sheep Shearing/Sea Bream, Sweetheart Story/Tyring a Cart and Farm Sale/Fishing in a Gale/Forest Fire
3. Market Day/Minnow Trap/Lobster Boat, Iron Ponds/Lobster Breeding and Romney Marsh/Pumpkins.
4. Lambing/Mayfly, Mole Catcher/High School Horse and Rake Maker/Stage Coach.
5. Bee-Skips/Pheasant Shooting, Tidal Mill/Ice Fishing and Fly Casting/The Log Splitter.
6. The Hidden Stream/Deer Shoot, The Shooting Master and British Finches/Yerro’s Operation.
7. Stour River, Hacienda/Bullfight and House Building/Trout and Grayling.
8. Freeze Branding/Cider Making, Trammel Nets/The Coach Builder and Big Skate/Pannage.
9. Cod Fishing/Centenarian Angler, Charcoal Burners/Pigeon Shooting and Long Distance Ride.

Jack also authored a number of audio-tapes and long play records on his favourite subjects - horses, dogs, fish. I have my own set of these. They turn up now and then on eBay. As executor and beneficiary of his and Isobel Hargreaves wills I inherited lots of silent film from earlier material into which Jack would have worked his commentaries as well as interludes from 'the shed'. This is now with his biographer Paul Peacock who posts to this great forum and is with my full support producing programmes that will borrow from this material.
More lengths of film were sent by Isobel, after my step-father's death, to be curated by his friend Nick Wright at the The South Western Film Depository in the old TV South West Building in Plymouth. Nick is an expert in film-making and a conscientious and talented steward of a mass of unedited material, which may or may not find the orchestrating talent of another JH to make it presentable. Some other film went to Jack's old friend Len Smith in the New Forest - also I believe in unedited form without the crafting needed to create material fit for broadcasting.
In the age of You Tube and podcasting ('narrowcasting' which would have fascinated Jack)some of this material could surface, but I doubt he'd get or expect it to earn the interest, or give the pleasure afforded by the finely prepared material, that was a product of so much happy team-work with Stan and George and the many people he met in his travels through the Old Country.