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  • LMcD
    Full Member
    • Sep 2017
    • 8396

    Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
    Thanks very much indeed ferney. Oh, and LMcD of course!
    Don't mention it!

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    • MrGongGong
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 18357

      Someone I know made this
      which I found by accident but is rather wonderful IMV

      The secrets of a lost archive of portrait photos showing the changing face of Bradford.

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      • Richard Tarleton

        Just watched the first two episodes of series 2 of The Kominsky Method, now on Netflix - Michael Douglas, Alan Arkin (and new character Jane Seymour) - pure gold.

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        • Flay
          Full Member
          • Mar 2007
          • 5795

          PQ17: An Arctic Convoy Disaster is worth a watch, although sadly it is over-dramatically presented by Clarkson.

          Watch live BBC TV channels, enjoy TV programmes you missed and view exclusive content on BBC iPlayer.


          [edit] My link was taken directly from the iPlayer, perhaps that's why it may not work. Try this:

          Jeremy Clarkson tells the story of the Arctic convoys of WWII and their greatest disaster.
          Last edited by Flay; 12-11-19, 14:46. Reason: As noted
          Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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          • Constantbee
            Full Member
            • Jul 2017
            • 504

            Unreported World Channel 5

            An admirable series providing documentary coverage of international disasters that evade the headlines in the mainstream media, this episode ably crafted by Seyi Rhodes looking at the humanitarian crisis affecting Haitian migrant workers caused by Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas.
            And the tune ends too soon for us all

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            • LMcD
              Full Member
              • Sep 2017
              • 8396

              Originally posted by Flay View Post
              PQ17: An Arctic Convoy Disaster is worth a watch, although sadly it is over-dramatically presented by Clarkson.

              https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod...ia @bbciplayer
              I've never been a Clarkson fan, but I thought that on this occasion his presentation was just right - dispassionate at times, angry at others and with just the right amount of grim humour.
              Your link doesn't seem to work - but I saw this programme recently on PBS America.

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              • Bryn
                Banned
                • Mar 2007
                • 24688

                Originally posted by Constantbee View Post
                Unreported World Channel 5

                An admirable series providing documentary coverage of international disasters that evade the headlines in the mainstream media, this episode ably crafted by Seyi Rhodes looking at the humanitarian crisis affecting Haitian migrant workers caused by Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas.
                You appear to have rather overestimated the quality of Channel 5's documentary programming. Channel 4+1 is not Channel 5.

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                • Serial_Apologist
                  Full Member
                  • Dec 2010
                  • 37576

                  Originally posted by Bryn View Post
                  You appear to have rather overestimated the quality of Channel 5's documentary programming. Channel 4+1 is not Channel 5.
                  The episode mentioned by Constantbee was the first of a new series which are broadcast every Friday evening at 7.30, following neatly after the Channel 4 news at seven, arguably the best mainstream broadcast news on any UK network. Here's the RT blurb for the next one:

                  Ep 2 Reporter Adrian Sarwar meets the pupils, parents and teachers trying to survive at a primary school caught in the turf war in Cape Town, between lawless, drug-dealing gangs. As Sarwar and his director Tom Cross discover, the Cape Flats have long had a notorious reputation for lawlessness and violence. But with 279 children killed in the last year alone, the government has now sent in the military.

                  With a failing capitalism inflicting its worst consequences on areas of the world used to build unsustainable riches for the few and and false underlying justificatory value systems for the rest, the series provides and promises an inexhaustible range of plot lines for viewers to fill in details and outcomes.

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                  • Bryn
                    Banned
                    • Mar 2007
                    • 24688

                    Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
                    The episode mentioned by Constantbee was the first of a new series which are broadcast every Friday evening at 7.30, following neatly after the Channel 4 news at seven, arguably the best mainstream broadcast news on any UK network. Here's the RT blurb for the next one:

                    Ep 2 Reporter Adrian Sarwar meets the pupils, parents and teachers trying to survive at a primary school caught in the turf war in Cape Town, between lawless, drug-dealing gangs. As Sarwar and his director Tom Cross discover, the Cape Flats have long had a notorious reputation for lawlessness and violence. But with 279 children killed in the last year alone, the government has now sent in the military.

                    With a failing capitalism inflicting its worst consequences on areas of the world used to build unsustainable riches for the few and and false underlying justificatory value systems for the rest, the series provides and promises an inexhaustible range of plot lines for viewers to fill in details and outcomes.
                    Indeed. The curtailment of the Channel 4 News on Fridays to offer Unreported World is one of the week's musts. The specific documentary referred to can be viewed via All 4. My point was that Unreported World is a Channel 4, not a Channel 5 programme.

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                    • LMcD
                      Full Member
                      • Sep 2017
                      • 8396

                      Originally posted by Flay View Post
                      PQ17: An Arctic Convoy Disaster is worth a watch, although sadly it is over-dramatically presented by Clarkson.

                      Watch live BBC TV channels, enjoy TV programmes you missed and view exclusive content on BBC iPlayer.


                      [edit] My link was taken directly from the iPlayer, perhaps that's why it may not work. Try this:

                      https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03n3297



                      That works - I would definitely recommend this programme.
                      In 1981 the BBC broadcast a Play For Today called 'PQ17' in which Richard Briers played Capt Jack Browne. Sadly, it doesn't appear to be available online.

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                      • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                        Gone fishin'
                        • Sep 2011
                        • 30163

                        Originally posted by Constantbee View Post
                        Unreported World Channel 5

                        An admirable series providing documentary coverage of international disasters that evade the headlines in the mainstream media, this episode ably crafted by Seyi Rhodes looking at the humanitarian crisis affecting Haitian migrant workers caused by Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas.
                        As mentioned, a Channel 4 programme, available here:

                        [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                        • Anastasius
                          Full Member
                          • Mar 2015
                          • 1842

                          Apologies if this has already been mentioned but anyone else also enjoying Guilt ?
                          Fewer Smart things. More smart people.

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                          • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                            Gone fishin'
                            • Sep 2011
                            • 30163

                            Originally posted by Anastasius View Post
                            Apologies if this has already been mentioned but anyone else also enjoying Guilt ?
                            Ooh, yes.
                            [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                            • LMcD
                              Full Member
                              • Sep 2017
                              • 8396

                              Originally posted by Anastasius View Post
                              Apologies if this has already been mentioned but anyone else also enjoying Guilt ?
                              Definitely a guilty pleasure, in the same league as 'Tutti Frutti' and 'Takin' Over The Asylum'

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                              • vinteuil
                                Full Member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 12778

                                Originally posted by Anastasius View Post
                                Apologies if this has already been mentioned but anyone else also enjoying Guilt ?
                                ... o, very much. And tonite we are promised Bill Paterson as someone not to be messed with. And a Big Reveal....



                                Am also still much enjoying Giri/Haji, and - even tho' it's a bit battered and showing its age, Spiral series 7.

                                Last night's Gold Digger a complete hoot, compulsively watchable in a mad-as-a-box-of-frogs way : and anything with Alex Jennings, Julia Ormond, Jemima Rooper gets my vote...


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