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BBC Horizon – Who’s Afraid of a Big Black Hole? (2009)

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BBC Horizon – Who’s Afraid of a Big Black Hole ? (2009)
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Black Holes are one of the most destructive forces in the universe, capable of tearing a planet apart and swallowing an entire star. Yet scientists now believe they could hold the key to answering the ultimate question – what was there before the Big Bang?
The trouble is that researching them is next to impossible. Black holes are by definition invisible and there’s no scientific theory able to explain them. Despite these obvious obstacles, Horizon meets the astronomers attempting to image a black hole for the very first time and the theoretical physicists getting ever closer to unlocking their mysteries. It’s a story that takes us into the heart of a black hole and to the very edge of what we think we know about the universe. [Read more…]

BBC Natural World – Florida America’s Animal Paradise (2019)

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BBC Natural World – Florida: America’s Animal Paradise (2019)
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Florida is famous for its beaches, blue water and year round sun – but it also has a surprising wild side. It’s home to pine forests, coral reefs and the famous Everglades wetland, the largest sub-tropical wilderness in the US. Here, manatees swim in crystal clear rivers, baby alligators practice their hunting skills and miniature deer roam free. Every year, this state faces the full forces of nature – from wildfires to flooding and powerful hurricanes. And today, a growing human population and a cast of animal invaders are threatening this wild paradise. With the help of pioneering scientists, will Florida’s wildlife continue to weather the storm? [Read more…]

BBC Storyville – Pervert Park (2019)

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BBC Storyville – Pervert Park (2019)
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Pervert Park is a film about the people no-one wants as a neighbour. It follows the everyday lives of sex offenders, living in a trailer-park community and struggling to reintegrate into society. The film-makers deep access allows us to get inside the minds and pasts of some of the residents and to gain a deeper understanding of the devastating ongoing cycle of sex crimes and the lives it destroys. [Read more…]

BBC – The Believers Are But Brothers (2019)

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BBC – The Believers Are But Brothers (2019)
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The Believers Are But Brothers is an urgent political riff on young men and the internet, adapted for television from an award-winning play.

Javaad Alipoor and director Irshad Ashraf step into the dark, blurry online world of fantasists and extremists to tell four fictional stories – of an ISIS recruiter, two British recruits and an Alt-right ‘white boy’ from California.
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BBC – Mountain with the Australian Chamber Orchestra (2018)

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BBC – Mountain with the Australian Chamber Orchestra (2018)
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Jaw-dropping exploration of our obsessions with high places and how they have come to capture our imagination. Only three centuries ago, climbing a mountain would have been considered close to lunacy. The idea scarcely existed that wild landscapes might hold any sort of attraction. Peaks were places of peril, not beauty. Why, then, are we now drawn to mountains? Filmed by the world’s leading high-altitude cinematographers and set to a specially curated musical performance by the Australian Chamber Orchestra, Mountain captures the fierce beauty of some of the world’s most treacherous landscapes and the awe they inspire. [Read more…]

BBC – How to See a Black Hole The Universe’s Greatest Mystery (2019)

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BBC – How to See a Black Hole: The Universe’s Greatest Mystery (2019)
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For two years BBC cameras have followed, Dr Sheperd Doeleman of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and the work of the Event Horizon Telescope project team, a collective of the top scientific minds from around the world. The project combines radio observatories and telescope facilities from around the world to make up a virtual telescope with a diameter spanning the entire planet. This mega-telescope’s ultimate mission is to capture the first image ever of a black hole. Although the concept of black holes has been long assumed to be fact, the Event Horizon Telescope’s success would definitively prove the existence of this scientific phenomena for the first time – and provide clear visual evidence. [Read more…]

BBC – Our Classical Century Sound and Vision (2019)

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BBC – Our Classical Century: Sound and Vision (2019)
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From the films Brief Encounter and Bridge on the River Kwai, to the glamorous classical stars Jacqueline du Pré and Daniel Barenboim, this is the story of how classical music thrived in post-war Britain and found vast popular audiences. Suzy Klein and broadcaster and music lover Joan Bakewell explore a new world of musical collaborations with classical music – from Yehudi Menuhin and Ravi Shankar, Rick Wakeman and David Bowie, and Deep Purple and the Royal Philharmonic. [Read more…]

BBC – For Folk’s Sake: Morris Dancing and Me (2019)

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BBC – For Folk’s Sake: Morris Dancing and Me (2019)
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What’s the best way to save the ageing breed of male Morris dancer from extinction? Richard Macer infiltrates the endangered world of bells, beer and beards to discover an unlikely saviour of this ancient masculine tradition in the form of women.

The Morris Ring, the oldest Morris organisation in the country, has voted to admit women dancers for the first time with the hope that its member sides – as the teams are called – might stem the tide of declining numbers. But there are hardliners who believe females will dilute the very essence of what makes men’s Morris great. So, is Morris better when danced just by men or are women and mixed sides just as good? [Read more…]

BBC This World – Shadow Commander Iran’s Military Mastermind (2019)

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BBC This World – Shadow Commander: Iran’s Military Mastermind (2019)
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Category: Documentary

For decades one Iranian commander has dominated the brutal struggle for power and influence across the Middle East. This film tells the extraordinary story of General Qassem Suleimani with first-hand accounts of his secret deals and shifting alliances across Syria, Iraq and Lebanon.
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BBC Storyville – The Internet’s Dirtiest Secrets The Cleaners (2019)

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BBC Storyville – The Internet’s Dirtiest Secrets: The Cleaners (2019)
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Category: Documentary

7,000 miles from Silicon Valley in downtown Manila, a secret team of content moderators have a target of 25,000 Facebook, Google and Twitter posts to delete each day. Trawling through the world’s most violent, disturbing and highly contentious online material – in the form of terrorist videos, child pornography, self-harm material and political propaganda – ‘the cleaners’ are individually responsible for deciding what stays online and what gets removed. This film explores the hidden and complex world of digital content moderation where undesirable material is ‘cleaned’ from the internet by a hidden army of nameless people. [Read more…]