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BBC, Rupert Murdoch - Battle With Britain

In the wake of the phone-hacking scandal, Rupert Murdoch has been accused of corrupting British media and contaminating politics. Yet the caricature image of him as the ‘Dirty Digger’, the sinister head of a global media empire, in fact obscures deeper, more significant truths - not least about Britain itself.

Rupert Murdoch can be seen as an agent of change, a revolutionary almost, who has been a vital part of the transformation of Britain over the last 45 years. He rode the wave of social change that swept a gloomy postwar country into the modern world and his ability to understand what people wanted and give it to them made him rich and powerful. Yet his part in this cultural, political and industrial revolution also brought Rupert Murdoch into conflict with the establishment and vested interests in all their guises. It may even have ultimately cost him his life’s ambition - to see the business he has built carried on inside the family by one of his children. Steve Hewlett tells the story of Rupert Murdoch’s 40-year battle with Britain.

BBC Panorama - The Russians Are Coming

Russian money has poured into London, but is organised crime coming with it? Reporter Darragh MacIntyre investigates a death in a Russian prison that has brought the threat of violence to the UK. Could a whistleblower found dead on the streets of Surrey be the latest victim of the Russian crime wars?

Pat Robertson - University Educations To Blame For Lack Of Miracles

HA!, Damn this is hilarious. He is absolutely right though, skepticism protects us from those who would take advantage of us. and to those who don’t know any better, everything looks like a miracle.

Mindless Media Parrots

What happens when the media doesn’t question the information it’s given?

Can Eating Insects Save The World?

How would you feel about eating deep fried locusts, ant egg salad or barbequed tarantulas? This documentary sees presenter and food writer Stefan Gates immerse himself in the extraordinary world of hardcore insect-eating in a bid to conquer his lingering revulsion of bugs and discover if they really could save the planet.

With 40 tonnes of insects to every human, perhaps insects could offer a real solution to the global food crisis - where billions go hungry every day whilst the meat consumption of the rich draws vast amounts of grain out of the global food chain.

Stefan’s on a mission to meet the people in Thailand and Cambodia that hunt, eat and sell edible insects for a living. But nothing quite prepares him for bug farming on this terrifying scale, from stalking grasshoppers at night to catching fiercely-biting ants. And it’s not just insects on the menu. Stefan also goes hunting for the hairiest, scariest spider on the planet - the tarantula. Stefan asks if the solution is for everyone - the British included - to start eating insects too

BBC, A History Of Syria With Dan Snow

Dan Snow travels to Syria to see how the country’s fascinating and tumultuous history is shaping the current civil war.

For thousands of years, empires and despots have fought for control of the strategically vital region, leaving behind stunning temples, castles and mosques, as well as a diverse cultural heritage. Those conflicts - from the Roman conquests to the crusades, from the French colonial invasion to the military coups of the 1960s - loom large in today’s conflict. For those confused by the seemingly random nature of the bloodshed and slaughter, Dan Snow unpicks the historic divisions between Sunnis and Alawites, Islamists and secularists, east and west.

An unbiased look at all the conflicting interests at play in the current civil war in Syria. 

BBC, Life Of Mammals - Persistent Hunting

Did you know that humans were evolved to run, and run long. Running on two legs is more efficient and our sweat glands and hairless bodies prevent us from overheating. Other mammals, on the other hand, can run fast for shot distances before they begin to overheat and have to find shelter. This mismatch gave humans a niche to exploit in the environment and created our oldest hunting technique called Persistent Hunting, where humans will literally run down an animal that can no longer escape because of exhaustion.

Humans are the Terminators of the natural world, unrelenting in it’s pursuit until you give in to your inevitable death……..lol.

Fox News Can’t Decide If It’s Ok To Call Someone Hitler

The frighteningly hilarious hypocrisy of Fox News

Penn & Teller on Vaccinations

Even if vaccinations did cause autism, which they doesn’t, the risks involved still mean it’s a good idea to get your child vaccinated.

Women! Sort Yourself Out.

Wonders Of Life - BBC Trailer

I challenge you to watch this without smiling

Tragedy & Video game Violence

TotalBiscuit brings you a special report on the recent tragic school shootings and how the media successfully manipulated the event, creating an unnecessary and ridiculous hype in gamers’ disfavor.

Graham Hill: Driven

Emotive documentary portrait of a sporting legend who lived and died during a time when sex was safe and motor racing was dangerous!

Graham Hill was an eccentric, charismatic Englishman from a bygone era of sporting endeavour. With great determination he won the Formula 1 World Championship, the Indy 500 and the Le Mans 24 hours race, thereby achieving the ‘triple crown’ of motor racing - a unique feat that remains unmatched to this day. Graham also won the glamorous Monaco Grand Prix five times during an era when drivers routinely met violent death. Away from the circuit, he was a raconteur of hilarious proportions, a dashing figure with a keen eye for the ladies. He was an irrepressible free spirit who simply didn’t know when to quit.

Ultimately, it was to be his undoing.

Graham’s illustrious racing career spanned three decades, which at its height saw him routinely slugging it out with fellow F1 champions Jim Clark and Jackie Stewart. Close friends yet intense rivals on the track, they were the ‘Three Musketeers’ during a golden era of motor racing. But what was the truth behind Graham’s popular public image? 30 years on from his death, his family, close friends and former colleagues paint an intimate, revealing and entertaining portrait of a sporting hero tragically killed in a plane crash in 1975

BBC, Hans Rosling - The Joy Of Stats

Documentary which takes viewers on a rollercoaster ride through the wonderful world of statistics to explore the remarkable power thay have to change our understanding of the world, presented by superstar boffin Professor Hans Rosling, whose eye-opening, mind-expanding and funny online lectures have made him an international internet legend.

Rosling is a man who revels in the glorious nerdiness of statistics, and here he entertainingly explores their history, how they work mathematically and how they can be used in today’s computer age to see the world as it really is, not just as we imagine it to be.

Rosling’s lectures use huge quantities of public data to reveal the story of the world’s past, present and future development. Now he tells the story of the world in 200 countries over 200 years using 120,000 numbers - in just four minutes.

The film also explores cutting-edge examples of statistics in action today. In San Francisco, a new app mashes up police department data with the city’s street map to show what crime is being reported street by street, house by house, in near real-time. Every citizen can use it and the hidden patterns of their city are starkly revealed. Meanwhile, at Google HQ the machine translation project tries to translate between 57 languages, using lots of statistics and no linguists.

Despite its light and witty touch, the film nonetheless has a serious message - without statistics we are cast adrift on an ocean of confusion, but armed with stats we can take control of our lives, hold our rulers to account and see the world as it really is. What’s more, Hans concludes, we can now collect and analyse such huge quantities of data and at such speeds that scientific method itself seems to be changing.