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Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View PostBaron's Court
or
Barons Court?
Well he hasn’t been caught yet but I’m only halfway through the season"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Originally posted by Cockney Sparrow View PostThanks, we can "borrow" our daughter's subscription, and enjoyed Borgen etc so will look it out."...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Originally posted by Dave2002 View PostThe Long Song, based on Andreas Levy's book, was gripping in three episodes. Very well done. Still available on iPlayer.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod.../the-long-song
[**] of course the "crimes" were institutionalised, and the law was biased against the slaves for a long while, and even perhaps after they were liberated. So legally it was often the slaves who were committing the crimes, and sentenced, and sometimes executed, yet the landowners and the British and later governments which supported them were "wronged" and compensated.
By modern standards of ethics this seems very wrong indeed, but we can't rewrite all of the history now.
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Originally posted by Dave2002 View PostBy modern standards of ethics this seems very wrong indeed, but we can't rewrite all of the history now.
Yes - we are watching this series, very good production.
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Originally posted by Cockney Sparrow View PostAgree with you there.... How far do we go back? I think we should concentrate on the present and future, or perhaps since the inception of T May's "hostile environment". Informed by the past.
Yes - we are watching this series, very good production.
T May simply built on that despicable foundation.
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The return of Unreported World to Channel 4, each Friday at 7.30pm following immediately on from the news, is a most welcome breath of fresh air, as was well exemplified by tonight's episode, dealing with Trump's female support base among the Southern Bible Belt. Non-sequitur quote of the night was probably this, "God created man and woman in His image", although a black preacher saying had it not been for the white man - the white MAN, one of his audience stressed - there would be no America, came a close second. In one sense true, but in another the programme was a sad exposure on the debasement of mainstream thinking among a sizeable white demographic in the States that these sad people, in deep denial, represented the most coherent defense for the status quo following the consequences 40 years' imposition of Neo-liberal socioeconomics on the heart of the Free World. At least in the early days the right posed arguments worth engaging with.
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[QUOTE=gurnemanz;804772]Originally posted by Rjw View PostI don't really watch tv anymore, too dumbed down QUOTE]
Not my experience at all. Lots of worthwhile programmes available from a multiplicity of sources and in great technical quality.
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