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Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View PostAlice Roberts' Origins of Us series (part 2 of 3 Tuesday nights yesterday, 8pm BBC4) always offer personably presented insights into things one thinks one should have already known, notwithstanding her pronunciation of "food" the ubiqutous modern way (somewhere between "feed" and "feud"), although the parallels she drew between male attraction characteristics in hunter-gatherer societies and modern-day displays typified by skateboarding risk-taking teenagers on the South Bank were, I thought, conjectural, to say the least!I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
I am not a number, I am a free man.
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Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View PostWorth watching, for all its analytical limitations. Beyond the images of mutilated human meat one sadly starts getting used in these days, and the family pressures incumbent with dynastic dictatorships across the ages, stands that of the extraordinary Asma, surely, surely aware, for goodness' sake, of the stoked up hatred waiting to be visited upon her when the time eventually comes.
(I kept thinking about the end of Benito Mussolini and Clarretta Petacci.)
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Originally posted by kernelbogey View PostThe film strongly suggested that Bashar manages the horror of his actions by splitting psychologically; though not explicit, the same seemed suggested of Asma. How can she possibly remain ignorant of what has been done to preserve her, her husband and their children?
(I kept thinking about the end of Benito Mussolini and Claretta Petacci.)
This was so good, an extraordinary and awful series. Very impressive the range of witnesses - the doctor (in the third part) who had studied with Bashar, so lucid, calm, articulate.
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Originally posted by vinteuil View Post... and Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu.
This was so good, an extraordinary and awful series. Very impressive the range of witnesses - the doctor (in the third part) who had studied with Bashar, so lucid, calm, articulate.
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Originally posted by Richard Tarleton View PostNot to mention (and for an anthropologist she uses the word rather a lot) "bones" as "banes". I think this is a repeat? I tried it before. But yes, a camera-friendly presenter.
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Originally posted by gradus View PostApart from her vowel sounds, Prof Roberts has, to me at least, an extraordinary range of academic accomplishments being an Anatomist, Archaeologist and, Anthropologist. She wears her learning lightly though and I enjoy her programmes.[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]
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I tried VERY hard to stick with part 1 of '100 Days to Victory' (BBC2), but the unnecessary, relentless and increasingly intrusive 'background' music quite spoilt it for me. After some 15 minutes or so, faced with the alternatives of watching it with sub-titles only and giving up, I opted for the latter. A pity, because the story that was being told and the effective 'docu-drama' structure could have made for a memorable couple of hours' viewing. (I can't imagine the orchestra being dispensed with in part 2).
Music also features, but much less obtrusively, in the excellent 4-part series 'The Lakes' (also BBC2). Much more than just a series of pictures of spectacular scenery, although there's enough of that to keep this viewer happy! Paul Rose is a knowledgeable, enthusiastic presenter who realizes that, useful though he is, the programme is not mainly about him.
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Originally posted by LMcD View PostI tried VERY hard to stick with part 1 of '100 Days to Victory' (BBC2), but the unnecessary, relentless and increasingly intrusive 'background' music quite spoilt it for me. After some 15 minutes or so, faced with the alternatives of watching it with sub-titles only and giving up, I opted for the latter.
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Originally posted by kernelbogey View PostI despair that producers on both tv and radio seem convinced that we are unable to take in the spoken word - or perhaps stick with their programme - without shedloads of 'background' music.
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