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(10-05-2023 13:38 )Doddle Wrote:  Amol Rajan Interviews Bill Gates
Amol fawns a bit, but does bring up a few tricky topics, though not why Gates is the largest farm-land-owner in the USA these days.

Amol Rajan Interviews Sir Richard Branson
Rajan helpfully talks on one of Virgin's Cruise ships, thus affording plenty of free publicity. Did the obscenely rich businessman really need govt money during the pandemic? Does he undertake idiotic death-defying challenges because he's an adrenalin freak? And why does he feel the need to upend so many women he does publicity with? Some of these questions were answered.

WWE Raw 5/15/23

From SEASON 2

4. This Way Gone

Dressing Up For The Carnival: A Portrait of Carol Shields
A 2002 repeat on a celebrated Canadian writer of whom I've never heard, and on this evidence, am unlikely to be reading any time soon.

(13-12-2022 21:09 )Doddle Wrote:  Susan Calman's Grand Day Out
Not that they're running out of fresh and inspiring places, but this time she went to "Oxford and the Chilterns". No offence to any forumers lucky enough to already live there, but it's like when people on "Escape to the Country" want to go from Kensington to Wiltshire. Anyway, wee Calman looked at wildlife hospitals, model villages, and old bookshops. Hmm...

SC's GDO
Arguably channel 5's greatest fidget returns with yet another series of this show. In keeping with the channel's stated commitment to make less shows about Yorkshire, this first edition sees her in the "Yorkshire valleys", supposedly checking out minor places she might have missed in several previous visits. As such, she went to Newby Hall (where John Sergeant and friends went earlier in the week), then York (!) and two trips to Harrogate (!)

Kaleidoscope S1 Ep 1 & 2.

I've just started to watch this and it's ok, not too bad so far, but I've only watched 2 episodes atm. The first episode was pretty ok and the second not bad. It's done in a strange sort of way, where you don't actually have to watch each episode in any order, but I've chosen to watch it from Ep1 - 8. It's not ground breaking or anything but it has enough so far to keep me watching. Giancarlo Esposito is always great to watch (Many might recognise him as Gus Fring from Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul).

Imagine presents Alice Neel - Dr Jekyll & Mrs Hyde
From back in 2007 and with Alan Yentob nowhere in sight, a look at a somewhat cantankerous painter, some of whose subject matter was pretty indefensible, I thought.

TED CONNINGSBY - Youtube stream

I am not sure how many knew this - I confess I didn't until I tuned into this stream as my preferred 'TV' output these days! Last evening - to the exact time - I believe, was the 80th anniversary of the most infamous event of the II world War - The Dambusters raid on Germany. To mark it, a Lancaster, together with Spitfire, and a number of Typhoon fighters etc, took to the skies for a series of fly pasts in Lincolnshire and surrounding areas. I wasn't watching much - as I generally don't these days - mainstream news etc, so somebody can correct me, but I certainly did not hear mention of the date and its significance anywhere bar this one outlet. Shameful if so (but hardly that much of a surprise anymore) - given the seismic event the raid on the dams was, and the impact that it had in changing the course of events.

Spectacular - and yes, of course - poignant in equal measure!

(15-05-2023 20:46 )Doddle Wrote:  Amol Rajan Interviews Sir Richard Branson
Rajan helpfully talks on one of Virgin's Cruise ships, thus affording plenty of free publicity. Did the obscenely rich businessman really need govt money during the pandemic? Does he undertake idiotic death-defying challenges because he's an adrenalin freak? And why does he feel the need to upend so many women he does publicity with? Some of these questions were answered.

Amol Rajan Interviews Piers Morgan
No outside publicity jollys here. Piers claims to be loveable and moderate and thinks Rupert Murdoch is fantastic and he himself totally knew nothing about phone hacking, though he said it in a blatantly qualified way, that no-one could find proof that he did.

Altered.Carbon SEASON 1
1. Out of the Past