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Everest - The South West Face
Charming reflection back almost 50 years to Chris Bonington's expedition team making the first ascent of said Mountain via said route. Several survivors told their tale, not least Doug Scott, one of the two men who actually made it to the top (CB didn't manage it until 10 years later). They had mixed views on the current trend for any old Tom, Dick or Harry being able to be guided to the top.

Thundercats Ep 56 "Dream Master" & Ep 57 "Out of Sight" Season 1

The Sky at Night - Queen of Pulsars
The story of Professor Jocelyn Bell Burnel, who discovered pulsars and watched as other (male) members of her team won the Nobel bloody prize and she didn't. However, as she charmingly put it, missing out meant she was awarded loads of other similar gongs, which she probably wouldn't have if she had got the big one. Her career was also hampered by being forced to work wherever her husband did (he was in the same business, mind, it's not like he was a shoemaker or something).

Judi Dench in Conversation with Richard Eyre
A BFI "in front of a live audience" treat about her film career specifically, and pretty solid stuff, from 2015.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Ep 5 "Through the Lense of Time" Season 3

That was creepy lol

(05-07-2025 13:28 )Doddle Wrote:  

(27-02-2024 14:59 )Doddle Wrote:  Talk to al Jazeera
Sebastiao Salgado is a photographer who made his career covering horrors in Africa in the 1990s, and who now works to protect rainforests with his wife and son.

Omnibus - Looking Back At You
Profile from 1993 of Salgado, who must have also taken photos of Brazilian mining operations, and also sugar harvesters.

Arena - The Spectre of Hope
John Berger talks to Salgado in 2000 about his new book, which he spent 6 years working on, and which shows the deterioration of the world thanks to globalisation. A situation which has only gotten worse since.

Alien: Earth s1 eps 1&2 "Neverland" & "Mr October"

Thundercats Ep 58 "The Mountain" & Ep 59 "The Superpower Potion" Season 1

The Fog of War - Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara
Reflections on the near miss in 1962, and then struggles over Vietnam. The S stood for Surprise, too.

Alien: Earth Episodes 1 & 2

I'm unsure what to make of this at the moment, on the positive side I'm still watching it and I will watch episode 3 when it's released. The way it's been made has given that claustrophobia / Haunted House vibe that was evident throughout the first Alien movie. It's also added small but visible traits from the second instalment (Aliens).

The story itself does drag on a bit but I was still not put off. The "Synth" origin is pretty good and the whole series is held together by their characters imo.

Overall not bad, not great but just enough to peak my interest