BBC Barbara Thompson: Playing Against Time 2012 720p HDTV x265-MVGroup

For over forty years, virtuoso saxophonist/composer Barbara Thompson has been Britain's most brilliant and best-known female jazz musician. Her original compositions and soaring flute and saxophone improvisations have attracted large and enthusiastic audiences beyond the confines of contemporary jazz. She has released many albums and toured regularly throughout Europe, mainly with her own band Paraphernalia. But in 1997, the same year that she received an MBE for her services to music, disaster struck. Barbara was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.

Playing Against Time is a feature-length documentary about Barbara's inspiring and creative struggle with this disease, whose physical effects are particularly cruel, and visible, in the life of an improvising jazz musician.

Technical Spec
Video Codec: x265 CABAC Main L4
Video Bitrate: CRF 20 (~1348Kbps)
Video Resolution: 1280x720
Frame Rate: 50 FPS
Audio Codec: AAC-LC
Audio Bitrate: q91 VBR 48KHz (132/234Kbps avg/peak)
Audio Channels: 2
Run-Time: 74 mins
Part Size: 786 MB
Source: HDTV (1080i/h264 4743Kbps VBR 2.82GB)
Subtitles: Merged