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My Dad did national service with Ralph Steadman in West Wales

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If there was a documentary on Claude Puel’s life it would be 4 hours long and nothing would happen


Goatboy will call this another left wing conspiracy bollocks, it’s just people doing there thing etc.

I watched this the other day. It was interesting

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I started to watch this @tedmaul but it seemed a little too depressing and distressing for me.

Just watched this instead of the debate. Really good documentary. Shocking and strangely not shocking that convicted paedophiles are working in the industry still.

The scandal of Alan Turing and how maths describes the natural world :laughing:

It’s a really brave film in terms of access and just Scientology works by litigating against anyone who disagrees with them. Incluing the IRS, they are a religious cult who have so much influence now to be untouchable.

Where’s Ted gone? Silly old bugger.

Anyway, I watched this documentary about the Forbidden City (Ch4 9/7/17) the other day and can recommend it whole-heartedly. Truly amazing feat. I welcome the day they dominate us all over again. Clever bastards

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I watched this documentary at a Latin American conference a few months ago. Yesterday marked two years since Honduran environmental defender Berta Caceres was assassinated in her own home. There have been new arrests recently.

Oscar nominated and free to watch on Netflix. It starts out as, the director would admit a pretty lame scenario. The presenter takes steroids to prove he can beat other cyclists. It takes a major turn 
 I’ll not spoil it, but it’s more gripping and emotional than many Hollywood films. And it’s real!

I see Deakins finally got his Oscar SB. :lou_sunglasses:

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It really was a joke he hadn’t been given any award before.

A very interesting documentary on BBC4 this coming week “The Ruth Ellis Files-A Very British Crime Story” (9 pm on Tues/Wed/Thur)

Hopefully this will present the true story of a woman who was poorly served by the British Judiciary at the time and by the British media ever since. A friend of mine (Monica Weller) was an advisor in the making of the documentary as she ghost wrote Ruth Ellis’s sister’s story “Ruth Ellis - My Sister’s Secret Life” back in 2005.

A lot of unanswered questions presented
an “Establisment” cover-up
did they have secrets to hide
would Ellis’s survival cause them problems
could a frail, abused and troubled woman weild a heavy military revolver to such an expert and deadly effect after just one practice session just days before the event?

A hard watch “Stephen: The Murder That Changed a Nation” on BBC. 2 episodes out of 3 watched. Last night was about the murder and his mother’s pursuit of getting justice. Tonight’s about The System ending with the Mcpherson report.

I don’t remember much about the murder in the news at the time. I’d have been 17 and being a young idiot. We also didn’t have the rolling news that we do now so it wouldn’t have been as full on as now when a young person is stabbed. The assumptions made about Stephen and his friend. I wonder how far we have come since then.

Tonight they showed videos of the accussed being racist and playing with knives. There is a retired copper who I haven’t warmed too. See if you can work out which one.

I do remember the Mcpherson report coming out 6 years later in 1999 and attending training via my union about it.

Quite interesting timing given the Windrush issues currently.