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(05-08-2025 13:39 )Doddle Wrote:  Stories from Tate Britain
1/2 Kate Bryan gets another SA series to talk painters, and a bit on the archives and histories of the Tate gallery brand.

SfTB
2/2 Inter-war artists, most of whom have been forgotten, then the likes of Bacon and Hockney, then later names like Emin and Ofili.

Thundercats Ep 50 "Lion-O's Anointment Fourth Day: The Trial of Mind Power" & Ep 51 "Excalibur" Season 1.

I'm surprised that no one has mentioned the new Chloe Ayling kidnapping documentary series: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002gjg4

Churchill's Bid to Abolish Britain
A histrionic title given the limited time of events concerned, and it being someone else's idea. In June 1940, after Churchill followed up the Dunkirk evacuation by sending more British troops to N France, he accepted a plan to save France from imminent doom by merging the two countries. However the French overruled their own idea, and chose to put faith in terms with Germany instead. This was a fateful decision in multiple ways, leading the UK to turn toward the US from then on, and also for greater European integration after the war.

Political Thinking with Nick Robinson - Friedrich Merz
A chat at the German Embassy. Nick makes great play that Merz is the first German Chancellor in 80 years to Make Germany Militarised Again, but less interest in Merz' family background.

Thundercats Ep 52 "Secret of the Ice King" & Ep 53 "Good and Ugly" Season 1

Ai Weiwei - The Artivist
A new look at the Chinese artist who became somewhat radicalised by experience and now lives and works in Portugal.

Thundercats Ep 54 "The Transfer" & Ep 55 "Divide and Conquer" Season 1.

The Bottom Line
Steve Clemons talks first to a Republican strategist and a Democrat strategist to compare their views on how the US is handling the Gaza crisis; then later to Daniel Levy, who was more forthright on the same topic.

Armenia, My Home
A charming PBS America advertorial for a beautiful looking country which gave us Eric Bogosian, after a fashion, has painful experience of genocide and ethnic cleansing, and judging by this week's news, is another element likely to not make it to the next decade.